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Horton Hears a "Hell, Yeah!"

Now THIS is what I'm talking about!  FINALLY, a studio gets it right.

Just the other day we hear that Jim Carrey and Steve Carell are supplying the voices for Fox's CGI-animated Horton Hears a Who, animated by Blue Sky Studios.

Now, USA Today breaks out the first picture from the film, and I am just BLOWN away by the sheer awesomeness of it.  Feast your eyes on the Carell's character, the Mayor of Whoville...

This is how a Dr. Seuss movie should look... not like that overblown Grinch or that scary John Wayne Gacy Cat in the Hat movie.

Now I can only pray that they just do the story as it is and don't concoct some cockamamie "back story" like they've done with the previously-mentioned abominations.

Posted by Movie MILF on September 14, 2006 - 11:43am.
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Druuna's picture
Hell, Yeah!

Posted by Druuna on September 14, 2006 - 11:59am.

I LOVE Blue Sky Studios. They're work on Robots was phenomenal and totally overlooked.

seekshelter's picture
that does look pretty good

Posted by seekshelter on September 14, 2006 - 12:06pm.

even though they all look like stretched out cats. however, all of these stories can be told within a few minutes. while we may want a better story, its more than likely just gonna be a lot of fluff and a lot of horrible rhyming written by people who normally don't write that sort of thing. if they take out the rhyming it might help the story telling. i would rather have seen one movie that tied together a bunch of the seuess books. the one short version of the Lorax that came out way back when was awesome. it just told the story that everyone loved without trying to put in faux seussiness.

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testing

Posted by cmfe_rawks on September 14, 2006 - 12:27pm.

Please ignore
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dougieonline's picture
Hurray for Bluesky Studios

Posted by dougieonline on September 14, 2006 - 1:27pm.

You're right Druuna, Robots was amazing, and this is monitor-meltingly good.
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Movie MILF's picture
Backstory

Posted by Movie MILF on September 14, 2006 - 2:08pm.

Regarding Seekshelter's comments... there is backstory, and then there is backstory.  The story of Horton is rich enough that they could pad out the film in keeping with the original story, expanding on how the rest of the animals react to Horton's hearing of the Who, and Whoville itself, etc.

Then you have the pointless backstory of the Grinch, that just HAD to go and show why he's so Grinchy (can't anyone just be mean for the sake of being mean?) and the one in the Cat in the Hat with Alec Baldwin that added nothing to the original other than extra minutes to pad out the story.

Druuna's picture
Robots

Posted by Druuna on September 14, 2006 - 2:13pm.

I'm glad somebody else like's it. The story was fairly decent, had a lot of heart, but the animation work was SUPERB, especially the way they animate "Tim" the gatekeeper... watch the way he takes the key and pretends to open the door for Rodney. He moves like a puppet even though at the end, you see he's got little legs and feet. I love it!

Okay, yes.... I just watched it again last night. Can I help it? There's always new stuff to pick up on each time!

TheThirdDude's picture
yeah that ain't bad afterall

Posted by TheThirdDude on September 14, 2006 - 3:45pm.

still would've like to see stop motion seuss, grumble grumble, rum rum rum, that's my chum, he's a bum, a bum chum scrum drum, plum mum hum gum!!!!

Druuna's picture
No way

Posted by Druuna on September 14, 2006 - 6:38pm.

I'm SO glad this will not be stop motion... 'cos then Tim Burton would get his greasy mitts all over it.