But Horton has made a promise to the mayor, and an elephant is faithful 100 percent. Kangaroo considers Horton's belief in the Whos a 'threat to our way of life' and a danger to 'our children,' and demands the destruction of the speck that has captured the imaginations of the jungle's youth. Meanwhile, Horton's world has its doubters as well, namely sourpuss Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), a stern and unimaginative marsupial so intolerant she 'pouch-schools' her son and refuses to acknowledge the possibility of anything she can't see, smell or feel. He believes what Horton tells him and knows his world is in danger, but the rest of the Whoville writes him off as an insane boob. They refuse even to entertain such an absurd idea, with the sole exception of the open-minded mayor of Whoville (Steve Carell) - the Who whom Horton heard and who now communicates with the great elephant in the sky through a drainpipe. In fact, there's more than just a family of infinitesimally small critters living on that bit of fluff: There's a whole civilization of little 'Whos' who have no idea their entire world is nothing but a vulnerable crumb perched on a flower in a much larger universe. Although he can't see anything, Horton considers the possibility that there might actually be a tiny person somewhere on that miniscule mote - possibly even a whole tiny family - so he plucks the clover and swears to the tiny voice that he'll keep it safe, no matter what it takes.

Seuss' beloved characters with actors and instead fully animated this 50-year-old tale of a faithful, sharp-eared elephant who saves the microscopic world that only he can hear.ĭeep in the jungle of Nool lives Horton (voice of Jim Carrey, who somehow manages to be overly animated even in an animated film), a sweet, imaginative gray elephant with ears big enough to hear the small squeak emanating from a tiny speck of fluff that blows past him one lazy afternoon. With two live-action adaptations - one grotesque (THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS), the other just plain gross (THE CAT IN THE HAT) - to serve as a warning, the wise people at Blue Sky Studios (ICE AGE, ROBOTS) ditched the idea of trying to recreate Dr.

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