- YOUTUBE THE LORAX 2012 FULL MOVIE MOVIE
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- YOUTUBE THE LORAX 2012 FULL MOVIE TV
Seuss’s poetic language is but an afterthought.
YOUTUBE THE LORAX 2012 FULL MOVIE MOVIE
The Lorax movie suffers from overdoing overdoing the singing, dancing, screaming… overdoing pretty much everything.Īnd in the midst of all the chaos, Dr.
YOUTUBE THE LORAX 2012 FULL MOVIE SERIES
Even the Scooby Doo series and the Super Friends cartoons I used to watch after school weren’t this jam packed with excitement.
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Do kids today really need over-the-top action sequences injected so profusely into movies and TV shows? Apparently Hollywood thinks so. Moreover, as a child, I don’t recall ever needing such a rush in my entertainment. I don’t remember the Lorax being an adrenaline-fueled extravaganza. Except in the film, Ted has to dodge mechanical swishing axes strategically placed on the side of the road, to escape from, um, being decapitated.
Once he’s outside the walls, the landscape is as dreary as the opening pages of the book. As I said, Thneedville is walled in, but this twelve-year-old makes it out in no time and with relative ease. Ted rides his moped fast and crazy out of town. Moreover, does she know who this Once-ler is? What if he’s a pedophile? I’d like to know what kind of grandmother encourages her grandchild to pursue such a life threatening goal. He takes mad physical risks to make it out of Thneedville –which no one has ever done apparently– to find the rumored Once-ler and to hear about the truffula trees.īy the way, it’s Ted’s Grammy (Betty White) who goads him into seeking out the Once-ler. Ted’s preteen-hormone-fueled mission to gratify Audrey propels most of the action in the movie. Yeah, I need someone to draw me a plot diagram. The bottled air seems more like a luxury item than a necessity, but everyone in Thneedville uses bottled air, ostensibly because there are no trees that can make clean air. As do the writers of this script, apparently. Why else would they make him Asian? Maybe I’m overthinking it. I do have an active imagination. O’Hare, with his mafia boss voice, might be a symbol for everything negative we associate with China. The CEO of O’Hare is a two-foot tall Asian man (I’m not kidding). Thneedville is controlled by a greedy corporation that sells bottled air called O’Hare (am I missing a bad pun here?). But this, as the viewer discovers, is a quest fraught with peril. Ted has a crush on Audrey and, above all, wants to make her wish of seeing a truffula tree come true. She even has a mural of them in her backyard. She is the only one that is interested in seeing a fabled truffula tree. Everyone is just fine without trees, except for Audrey (Taylor Swift). But the thing is, everyone seems happy. In fact, the movie opens with the whole town singing a song about how great the town is. The Lorax 2012 takes place in a town called Thneedville, a Truman Show-esque walled in community where hidden cameras monitor the citizens. In the movie, however, the simple message of the book is obscured by a stream of sub-plots that are neither in the book nor in the 1972 made for TV movie, which is actually pretty cute (and short). The Lorax is not a rosy tale, by any means. The message of the book is simple, really: unbridled industrialism fueled by greed mucks up-and eventually destroys-the natural world. The Lorax is a tiny, sage-like creature who speaks for the trees. But nothing, not even the Lorax, can stop the Once-ler from cutting down the Truffula forest and building factories that spew toxic waste. A truffula tree’s tufts are “softer than silk and have the sweet smell of fresh butterfly milk.” Such exquisite material excites the Once-ler, so he chops down his first tree and knits what he calls a thneed (thing+need?).Īnd then the Lorax pops out of the stump. If you recall, the story is about a fantastical forest of Truffula trees-pinks, yellows, and oranges popping off the page-and all sorts of curious animals that inhabit this forest, such as Bar-ba-loots, Humming Fish, and Swomee-Swans.Īs the story goes, a strange green creature named the Once-ler comes upon the truffula trees. I was not thrilled when I found out they were making a movie of my favorite Dr.
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