This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. That balances out a lot of the unnecessary pop culture references, MySpace jokes, and Jim Carrey riffing which in a lesser film, might have sent the whole thing straight to the bottom.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. The visual gags are entertaining and Steve Carell, as the voice of The Mayor of Whoville is both touching and hilarious. Funny is the name of the game here, and Horton Hears a Who! sometimes pushes the moral center of Seuss’s story to the background in favor of being wacky. But he’s capable as Horton, sort of sappy and silly, which plays into the film’s mostly cartoony vibe. It’s a strange choice really, I thought the reason we liked Jim was for his facial contortions, not his vocal veracity. Jim Carrey, who achieved dubious success doing a live action version of The Grinch a few years ago, voices Horton. Horton vows to protect the tiny spec and its inhabitants, and finds himself harangued and ostracized by the other animals of his jungle who can’t hear the Whos’ voices and so insist he’s a dangerous kook. On the spec is a town called Whoville, and its mayor can hear Horton when he talks. This is still the story of an elephant named Horton who discovers a spec. The core of Seuss’s world is there though. It’s the story that occasionally misses, since they’re building a 90 minute film out of a book that’s really only a few pages. The fact that the movie is freed from the bounds of human actors and props helps though, and Horton Hears a Who! is nearly as visually creative and fun as the Seuss drawings it’s based on.
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