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Horton Enormously Entertaining

Posted Mar 14, 08 7:56 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – The big-screen adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! succeeds in large part because the film's actors are not seen. "Unlike those behind the recent live-action grotesqueries The Grinch and Cat in the Hat," observes Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the makers of the CG-animated Horton succeed by calling on "the great, good medic of metrical writing." 

James Berardinelli of ReelViews agrees. "Horton Hears a Who! doesn't enter the live-action realm, which is a good thing," making the movie "enjoyable in a family-friendly sort of way." Diva Velez of MightyGanesha.com goes a step further, writing that the film, about an elephant who perceives a plea for help from a speck of dust, "offers a welcome and wonderful respite to those convinced we might never see a worthy feature adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book."

Sources Rotten Tomatoes, Philadelphia Inquirer, ReelViews, MightGanesha.com

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Jim Carrey lends his voice to Horton the elephant in "Horton Hears a Who!"   (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios)
Actor Steve Carell, Jim Carrey's "Horton" co-star, attends the film's world premiere in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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