![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “‘Ol-lay-lewyer!” people hollered, and jumped up and down and did the hornpipe in a maybe-slightly-more-than-metaphorical sense. (For the record, I haven’t seen either of them, so this is all hearsay – but it’s pretty darn prevalent hearsay.) It was looking like Seuss was pure poison on the big screen. First there’d been the Grinch movie, which was awful, then there was the Cat in the Hat movie, which was even worse. See, it had been a bad few years for Seuss. (I may be exaggerating just a tad, but not by much.) Seuss adaptation in yonks and yonks that didn’t… er, how shall I put this… ah, heck with it – that didn’t suck like a vacuum cleaner in a black hole halfway up the cosmic milkshake straw. It was called Horton Hears a Who, and it was being lauded to the skies. ![]() Horton, you poor, poor fool…ĭeneb’s rating: Seuss does sci-fi – and it works! It works very well!ĭeneb’s review: You may recall, a few years back, there being a lot of hoopla over a certain animated film. Summary Capsule: There is a tiny community of eensy-weensy people that only Horton the elephant can detect in any way. Tagline: If there is one, I don’t know about it. The Scoop: 1970 G, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Hans Conreid, June Foray, Chuck Jones and Thurl Ravenscroft. “You’re a dastardly, gastardly, shnastardly shnook!” ![]()
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