The Lorax

[anarky]

Is it just me, or does this look like it has the real potential to be the worst adaptation of all time?

It's a fucking bleak book. An awesome book, but bleak. There's no happy town, or Zac Efron wanting to kiss Taylor Swift, or the cute little Lorax wisecracking at the Onceler. The ads look as if they completely missed every point of the story.

There's no happy ending. Just a challenge to the reader.

Oh, and I just heard (via Colbert) that there are 70 product tie-ins. That sounds like 70 different varieties of thneeds to me. Fucking Lorax selling a fucking car. God damn, that Japanese earthquake was probably caused by Dr. Seuss rolling in his grave.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Every other commercial I've seen for the past three weeks has has the Lorax shilling something. Kids who've never read Dr. Seuss are going to be introduced to this character as the biggest d-bag spokesman ever.

The entire thing is a subversive abomination of Seuss.

Oh, and when you google "Lorax Product Tie Ins" you get the same studio prepared blurb 'news article' spread out over the first ten pages, without actually telling you what the 70 products are. So you can avoid them.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

But you know what? Every feature film adapted from Seuss has been an abomination. I didn't think I would be possible for a human being to outmug and outham Jim Carrey as the Grinch...until Mike Meyers showed us his Cat in the Hat. Ugh. Fuck you, Hollywood.

[anarky]

Is his widow still alive and in charge of things? I knew she was a bit batty when I read an article mentioned that the director of the live-action Grinch wanted to show the Grinch's trophy walls, which would include a stuffed-and-mounted Cat in the Hat head on the wall. She vetoed it, saying it was inappropriate.

So, Seussian humor is inappropriate in an immensely shitty Seuss-based film? I don't get the logic here.