ROTTEN TOMATOES: Trailer Bulletin: Horton Hears a Who

Trailer Bulletin: Horton Hears a Who

Now THIS is what a Seuss movie looks like...

by Scott Weinberg | August 01, 2007

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The last few times somebody tried to turn Dr. Seuss into a movie, the results were ... How the Grinch Stole Christmas and (dear lord) The Cat in the Hat. And then somebody got the brilliant idea to do Seuss with animation.

And here's the very cute little trailer for Fox's Horton Hears a Who, which doesn't open until next March but (in my opinion) looks precisely like a Dr. Seuss movie should look. The lead voices are Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, but the supporting cast is also pretty excellent: Isla Fisher, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Carol Burnett, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly... a little something for everyone, basically.

The directors are former Pixar animator Jimmy Hayward and Robots art director Steve Martino. Adapting Seuss' classic tale into movie form are Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, the team that gave you Santa Clause 2 and, er, Bubble Boy. The plot is ... well, if you never read Horton Hears a Who when you were a kid, then maybe you should see the movie completely fresh. Or better yet, pretend you're a kid and go get the book.

Source: IGN Movies

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arendr writes:
on Aug 01 2007 10:06 AM

Saw this trailer before The Simpsons the other day. Elephants don't drink through their trunks. But at least the female cows don't have male voices in this one.

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Mr. Kong writes:
on Aug 01 2007 10:15 AM

Pray to god it's better than The Cat in the Hat...

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TitusCosminus writes:
on Aug 01 2007 10:35 AM

not interested at all Scotty

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BjornFree writes:
on Aug 01 2007 11:03 AM

That does look cute.

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bobdebicker writes:
on Aug 01 2007 11:30 AM

that trailer was painfully unfunny.

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dracus writes:
on Aug 01 2007 01:14 PM

Horton may hear a Who, but Dracus hears a yawn.

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pinkincide writes:
on Aug 01 2007 01:31 PM

Are they actually going to suck the wonder out of this story with drab visuals and world-weary characters? Looks like it.

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conejitoandarin writes:
on Aug 01 2007 02:18 PM

How many Seuss stories will Jim Carrey kill?

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bookworm1994 writes:
on Aug 01 2007 02:21 PM

Who directs this? And this movie will be an achievement of every level, bozos.

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bat-fink writes:
on Aug 01 2007 03:22 PM

In reply to this comment (#1001517)
Whatt??? Jim Carrey was the only great thing about the Grinch! It was Mike myers that killed seus, with cat in the hat! This one looks like it could be good but i think we needed a way better trailer.

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CannibalPenguins writes:
on Aug 01 2007 04:11 PM

[b]The Grinch was amazing![/b] The Cat in the hat was terrible horrible mess!

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LilAlex writes:
on Aug 01 2007 05:43 PM

I guess they will never learn that you can't stretch one song into an album.
Dr. Seuss' stories are SHORT and work on that level.

This trailer is just more proof of that.
All dialog not by Seuss will suck just as it always has.

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welease_woger writes:
on Aug 01 2007 05:54 PM

In reply to this comment (#1001767)
I agree, The Grinch was amazing, as long as you're talking about the original with Boris Karloff. However, if you're calling the Jim Carrey version of The Grinch amazing then I only have one thing to say:
%u201CStwike him, Centuwion, vewy woughly!%u201D

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Darkness My Old Friend writes:
on Aug 01 2007 06:13 PM

Have any of these people making Dr. Seuss movies ever read any Dr. Seuss books?

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smi1ey writes:
on Aug 01 2007 06:57 PM

i got excited when i saw the beginning of the trailer. i knew what it was about after maybe 5-10 seconds, because that was one of my favorite stories growing up. but i dunno, i just wasn't too impressed... seemed really dumb :(

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TheIceGhost writes:
on Aug 01 2007 11:41 PM

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Drab visuals?? Dude, that trailer had some of the best cartoon-CGI I've ever seen. The detail of the fur and what not felt like inklings of the-next-level of CGI animation. Maybe that was just me though...

I thought it looked pretty decent, actually. Don't know what you people want (besides the obvious, "don't make the movie" issue... it's Hollywood, you should be use to it by now).

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bigturkey writes:
on Aug 02 2007 12:05 AM

This looks like it is going to be terribly, terribly painful. The trailer was played at the Simpson's movie and no one even giggled.

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123Dan123 writes:
on Aug 02 2007 02:27 AM

Looks great! I'll see it.

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Cindy_Lou_Who writes:
on Aug 02 2007 03:55 AM

..... Ummm... I see nothing wrong with Horton Hears a Who....

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jacog writes:
on Aug 02 2007 05:29 AM

Grammar lesson for all:

It's "Simpsons" not "Simpson's" ... When you say the latter, ie. "The Simpson's Movie was great" then you are implying that there was only one Simpson and it's his/her movie. "Simpsons" is a plural, "Simpson's" implies posession.

In fact, you never use an apostrophe to pluralise anything. You never watch "movie's" or dislike "teenager's" ... no apostrophes!

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