Why do they keep making movies based on Dr. Seuss books?!? The books are so great, they can never adapt them correctly into a feature length movie. They lose the rhymes, they lose the simple quality of the art, it's so sad.
At least this one is animated, even if it's CG. It's too bad, Blue Sky showed such promise with "Ice Age". I never saw "Robots", but "Ice Age 2" was a mess. I don't have much hope for this ...
 USA Today
'Horton' shakes off the dust
By Scott Bowles
September 14, 2006
With the help of a couple of A-list celebrities, Horton soon may be hearing ringing cash registers along with the Whos from that tiny speck of dust.
Jim Carrey and Steve Carell provide the primary voices for the big-screen adaptation of Horton Hears a Who!, which gets its first look here.
Horton Hears a Who, due March 14, 2008, will be the third film adaptation of a book by Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. And so far, the ventures have been money in the hat, er, bag.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, also starring Carrey, raked in a cool $260 million in 2000. In 2003, The Cat in the Hat, starring Mike Myers, did $101 million.
Both films, however, took heat from some critics and fans for employing live action as opposed to the traditional animation that made both stories hits on television in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Chris Meledandri, head of 20th Century Fox's animated division, says that Horton will not employ any live action, though it will use computer-generated animation by Blue Sky Studios, which also did Ice Age.
"I certainly was aware of some fan criticism that had occurred" with the live-action films, Meledandri says. "But this will be all animated, and true to the style of Ted Geisel. I think our (animation) and our artists will transport an audience into this man's imagination in a way that hasn't been done before."
Carrey, who is doing his first voice for an animated film, will play Horton, an elephant who hears the cries from a tiny civilization living on a speck of dust. Carell will play the mayor of Who-ville.
"Every single person working on this film has a deep personal connection with the story," Meledandri says.
"That's the most important thing in getting his story right."
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