I’m optimistic it will be quite good. I loved the original cartoon version. I’m also one of the few people who likes Jim Carrey.
I’m really hoping they don’t mess it up.
Who?
There was a cartoon version of the Willie Horton story?
And now a movie about him with Jim Carrey? Isn’t he the wrong choice on a lot of fronts?
I’m probably thinking of the wrong Horton.
I think it’s a huge step in the right direction. Cat in the Hat is an amusing movie, but primarily because it’s Mike Myers being Mike Myers; the live-action style just doesn’t suit Seuss’s stuff at all. For the most part Cat in the Hat and Grinch bombed hard, and Horton looks a lot more appealing.
Steve Carrell also has a part in it, IIRC the trailer correctly. Good stuff.
I dunno. The trailers look pretty obnoxious. Let’s face it, HHAW is pretty slight, plot-wise. It sounds like they’re filling in the gaps with a lot of famous voice actors doing their respective schticks. Which makes it sound a lot like the egregious remake of The Grinch.
So formulaic.
Take a widely known Dr. Seuss story.
Get a bunch of famous people to do the voices (and run commercials with the split screen).
Throw a billion dollars into marketing.
Much closer to the stinky “Bee Movie” than the excellent “The Incredibles” or “Ratatouille”.
I don’t know what would make this movie appealing to someone, unless they just see every animated movie.
That’s what I think too. We’ll probably skip this one (just like we’ve skipped Cat in the Hat and The Grinch… I enjoyed The Grinch, but it’s not appropriate for my son’s age IMO)
I like Jim Carrey. I love the cartoon. The movie will be so incredibly bad that Satan will requisition a copy to be used to torture the damned, then, after watching it himself, decide that that is too evil even for him.
If it doesn’t have the Wickersham Brothers song, they might as well not even bother.
I’m sorry, but after seeing the trailers, I look forward to this movie the way I look forward to an elective root canal. It just looks awful in every conceivable way.
Sweet. No crowds at the movie theater. I’ll be able to talk the whole way through it.
No. From the ads, it has little to do with the book. Seuss’s books were too short to support a movie, so they add inferior subplots.
If you want to see Seuss done right, see Horton Hatches the Egg
We’ll probably take the boys to see it this weekend; a family friend and her little daughter are gung-ho to see it, and have invited us along. I’m going to hope for the best - the previews aren’t too alarming.
As an adult I look forward to and enjoy pretty much every PIXAR film.
HHAW (not pixar) however just doesn’t appeal to me. Not that it looks bad but looks more like a kids film should. Kids will probably like it, nothing there for the adults.