Hope everyone had a nice long holiday weekend. The folks over at Fox certainly did. Their animated feature film Horton Hears A Who!, starring Jim Carrey and Steve Carrel, retained its #1 spot at the box-office. The film based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name has racked up close to $87 Million since opening nationwide 2 weeks ago.
"Horton Hears A Who!" was always one of my favorite children's book/indictments of McCarthyism Politics of the late 40's and 50's .
For those of you still feeling the sting of the dual rapings of your childhood memories of Dr. Seuss books; the ones perpetrated by the live action versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas & The Cat in the Hat...not to worry! From everything I have read the filmmakers actually did a good job taking the basic story of the book (which is only 20 something pages long) and creating a nice little movie out of it.
If you check out the images (click for larger) you can see that the animation, done by Blue Sky Studios (the guys who did the Ice Age movies), actually looks pretty spectacular. I really haven't paid much attention to this movie up till now, but with all the positive stuff I've heard I may have to go check it out.
On a side note...It always pissed me off to no end when I see these crazy Pro-Life invoking "Horton" and its recurring quote "A person's a person, no matter how small" as their rallying call in their anti-abortion debate."Horton Hears A Who!" wasn't written to be a pro-choice statement, nor was it meant to be a Jesus allegory as other desperate-for-attention religious groups have claimed. In fact Dr. Seuss's wife (Mrs. Seuss?) has sued these groups in an attempt to get them to stop using the book for their causes.
Pro-Choice supporters on the other hand have chosen a lesser know Seuss work called "Cindy Lou Gets an Abortion" with its not so famous quote "A person's only a person after the second trimester" (you try putting trimester into a Seussian rhyme, it's impossible I tired!).
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