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Synopsis
On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of
the day, in the cool of the pool. He was splashing...enjoying
the jungle's great joys...When Horton the elephant heard a
small noise. With his signature evocative and rhyming text,
writer and cartoonist Dr. Seuss, an American treasure whose
books have delighted generations of young people, opens one of
his most beloved tales, Horton Hears a Who! Now, over fifty
years since Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel,
published this perennial favorite, the makers of ICE AGE and
comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring it to life in
a way never before experienced. For the first time, a motion
picture transports audiences into Dr. Seuss' incredible
imagination, through state-of-the-art CG animation. DR. SEUSS'
HORTON HEARS A WHO! (TM) is Seuss as you want to experience
his work at the movies - and as it was meant to be seen. The
film, like Seuss' book, presents an imaginative elephant named
Horton (Carrey) who hears a faint cry for help coming from a
tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Although Horton
doesn't know it yet, that speck houses an entire city named
Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor
(Carell). Despite being ridiculed and threatened by his
neighbors, who think he has lost his mind, Horton is
determined to save the particle...because "a person's a
person, no matter how small." Horton's eight-word explanation
for his actions embodies an idea both simple and profound, and
which means so much, to so many. The film provides more food
for thought, having Horton explains to his skeptical friends:
"If you were way out in space, and you looked down at where we
live, we would look like a speck." Then there's Horton's
code...his motto... that, "an elephant's faithful 100 percent"
- pointing to his honesty and determination to never abandon
his mission to find a new home for the speck that houses the
incredible world of Who-ville. These philosophical
declarations point to Seuss' unique ability to take complex
issues and boil them down into understandable thoughts that
anybody, at any age, could understand. It all comes together
through the vision of a master storyteller, the magic of
computer animation, and the special alchemy of three
generations of comedy stars - Carrey and Carell are joined by
the legendary Carol Burnett, as well as cutting-edge talents
Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen and Jonah
Hill - to create an all-audience comedy event.
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