Horton is a kindly elephant who thinks he hears a voice coming from a tiny speck. The voice belongs to the Whos, a minuscule race of people led by the Mayor of Whoville. Horton decides to protect the Whos and their home, but this leads to no end of problems. No-one else believes there really ... Read review
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Fable from Dr. Seuss and Chuck Jones.Dr. Seuss? classic of a jungle elephant named Horton teaches us what it means to be a true friend. Hearing a faint cry for help from a floating speck of dust, Horton finds a tiny planet of Whos living there. Though he can't see them, he hears them for sure - and puts his safety on the line for the microscopic inhabitants. Thanks to Dr. Who-Vee and Horton, Whoville is saved and a lasting friendship is created. Dr. Seuss and animation giant Chuck Jones reteamed after How the Grinch Stole Christmas on this enchanting Peabody Award winner with a message bridging generations: A person is a person, no matter how small. Through its characters, charming songs and tongue-twisting verses, Horton looms large as a family-viewing treasure.
From the maker of Ice Age comes a hilarious and heartwarming adventure set in the jungle ... more
of Nool. Meet Horton, a fun loving elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust floating through the air. Hesoon discovers the speck is home to Who-ville a city inhabited by tiny people in big trouble. Horton must brave the dangers of the jungle to protect his new friends and save the day. Featuring the voice talents of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell-Horton Hears a Who is the family film of the year!.
From the maker of Ice Age comes a hilarious and heartwarming adventure set in the jungle ... more
of Nool. MeetHorton, a fun loving elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust floating through the air. Hesoon discovers the speck is home to Who-ville a city inhabited by tiny people in big trouble. Horton must brave thedangers of the jungle to protect his new friends and save the day. Featuring the voice talents of Jim Carrey andSteve Carell-Horton Hears a Who is the family film of the year!.This Limited Edition DVD is loaded with Who-Mungous extra features including a brand new Ice Age Short, deleted scenes and animated screen tests of your favourite characters plus, you get a bonus Digital copy that can be transferred to your iPod or portable device-enjoy all of the fun with Horton and his friends wherever and whenever you want.
From the makers of Ice Age comes a hilarious and heartwarming adventure set in the jungle ... more
of Nool. Meet Horton, a fun loving elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust floating through the air. He soon discovers the speck is home to Who-Ville a city inhabited by tiny people in big trouble. Horton must brave the dangers of the jungle to protect his new friends and save the day. Featuring the voice talents of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell- Horton Hears A Who is the family film of the year! This Blu-ray edition is loaded with Who-mungous extra features including a brand new Ice Age Short, deleted scenes and animated screen tests of your favourite characters plus, you get a bonus digital copy that can be transferred to your portable device- enjoy all the fun with Horton and his friends wherever and whenever you want.
Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck ... more
of dust -- no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that 'A person's a person no matter how small'! With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures and riotous rhymes Dr Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As part of a major rebrand programme HarperCollins is relaunching Dr Seuss's best-selling books. In response to consumer demand bright new cover designs incorporate much-needed guidance on reading levels. The standard paperbacks divide into three reading strands -- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own and Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. This is a Yellow Back book.
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Advantages: Lots of gags, great animation, strong voice cast, lots of adventures. Disadvantages: Odd cast end credits singalong.
Horton is a kindly elephant who thinks he hears a voice coming from a tiny speck. The voice belongs to the Whos, a minuscule race of people led by the Mayor of Whoville. Horton decides to protect the Whos and their home, but this leads to no end of problems. No-one else believes there really are people on the speck because they can't see them and the Mayor of Whoville has a similar problem convincing his townsfolk of the existence of a giant altruistic ... ...stifle everyone's imagination. So will Horton stick to his belief that "a person is a person, no matter how small"?
Blue Sky studios are to Pixar what Warner Bros Animation was to Disney; the anarchic younger cousin more interested in cracking jokes than painting pretty pictures. I've really enjoyed their back catalogue of movies such as "Ice Age", so I had high hopes for their latest flick and I wasn't disappointed. ... more
Horton is a kindly elephant who thinks he hears a voice coming from a tiny speck. The voice belongs to the Whos, a minuscule race of people led by the Mayor of Whoville. Horton decides to protect the Whos and their home, but this leads to no end of problems. No-one else believes there really are people on the speck because they can't see them and the Mayor of Whoville has a similar problem convincing his townsfolk of the existence of a giant altruistic elephant. Soon Horton is being ridiculed by the other inhabitants of the jungle, especially the snooty kangaroo who wants to stifle everyone's imagination. So will Horton stick to his belief that "a person is a person, no matter how small"?
Blue Sky studios are to Pixar what Warner Bros Animation was to Disney; the anarchic younger cousin more interested in cracking jokes than painting pretty pictures. I've really enjoyed their back catalogue of movies such as "Ice Age", so I had high hopes for their latest flick and I wasn't disappointed. Directors Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino stay true to the spirit of Dr Seuss while putting their own stamp on the story.
The character designs are straight out of Seuss but rendered 3-D. They look like toy versions of the characters as skin textures are like plasticine, short fur looks flocked and longer fur appears almost like fluffy acrylic fibres or doll hair. But it works because you can see the little imperfections in the skin, the individual hairs move independently of each other and the work on light and shade is very good. Each character has a good sense of weight and musculature and consistent but individualistic movement (compare Horton's heavy tiptoeing and Morton's zooming speed). All have large liquid eyes capable of great expression and elastic mouths that add to the expressiveness. There is no attempt at realism in the creature design though; the kangaroo is purple, Morton the mouse is blue. There is a whole raft of unidentifiable players such as Katy, who is a spherical ball of orange and yellow striped fluff, who has a tendency to moonwalk into bushes or take a deep breath and float away for no apparent reason, freaking out the other characters in the process. But these beasts fit well with the world of Dr Seuss where there are often strange things in the corner of his pictures. The Whos fit the pre-established template for the species, being pear-shaped with long heads, impossible quiffs, long furry fingers and feet with toes replaced by twirls of fur at their tips.
A great deal of care has also gone into the backgrounds, which aren't photo-realistic, but are detailed and create a consistent world for the characters. Colours are dusty-looking, environments appear to be made of plasticine and leaves are plasticky, making it feel like a world for toys. There are great water textures in a scene where Horton is taking a bath in a pool. There is some lovely detail in the opening sequence where the speck the Whos live on is dislodged by a teasel and the clover they end up on looks like a beautifully soft downy thistle. Whoville itself is highly stylised and reflects the work of Dr Seuss in its use of arcing architecture and Heath Robinson inventions (such as a giant glass dome that hides an argument between the Mayor and his committee from the public). The work on light and shade is great, taking into account the direction the light is coming from, how shadows are cast and graduated lighting and shade. The directors create a cinematic scope in the film by their use of different "camera angles" so we have point-of-view shots, cameras apparently sneaking about for the bad guy and a selection of views that allow the slapstick to reach its maximum potential. They also use different styles of animation in Horton's daydreams, that reference Dr Seuss' original line drawings coloured in blue and red and a manga segment as the elephant imagines saving the day. The gag ratio is extremely high, taking in character and situation comedy and slapstick. It's all brilliantly timed and Hayward and Martino aren't afraid of throwing jokes away as they know another will be along shortly. The pacing is snappy and there are plenty of mini adventures to keep the little ones entertained throughout the eighty-eight minute running time and they'll appreciate that it's down to a kid to save the day in the end.
The screenplay by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul takes the original book as a starting point and builds on it. The original moral is still there, as are some of the rhyming couplets. But there is also a second message about the importance of encouraging instead of suppressing the imagination, especially in children. The characterisation is cut and dried; you know who the good and bad guys are. Horton is the sensitive, imaginative innocent who is pitted against the cynical Kangaroo and her henchman Vlad the Vulture while the Mayor of Whoville has to do battle against the fearsome committee. The kids are all imaginative and inquisitive and the adults can't think for themselves. So you know what the dynamics will be and where the conflict will arise. What is surprising is the way the writers avoid sentimentality and pack the movie with comedy. There's everything from character and situation comedy to slapstick and sight gags. Among my favourite moments (and there are a lot of them) are when Horton first decides to help the Whos and spots hazards everywhere he looks, proclaiming "This whole jungle is a house of death!" I also really enjoyed the Kangaroo's visit to Vlad where he tries too hard to impress her. The dialogue is sharp and echoes some of the rhymes found in the original book while throwing in enough one-liners to keep the adults happy and a few little life lessons for the kiddies.
Jim Carrey's vocal performance as Horton restores my faith in him somewhat. He puts his all into the turn, making Horton a good-natured bumbler prone to enthusiastic babbling. His timing is very good and perhaps more importantly he makes the elephant a sympathetic character. Steve Carell proves to have good vocal range and timing as the worrywart Mayor of Whoville. Meanwhile Carol Burnett is harsh and sarcastic as The Kangaroo, the self-appointed Mary Whitehouse of the jungle. Seth Rogen shows his stoner comedy translates to voice-overs too as the pipes behind super-speedy cynic and voice of reason Morton. Will Arnett is tremendous value as the chewily-accented Vlad, hitting the character comedy just right. Also listen out for pitch perfect casting with Joe Pasquale as the dentist.
The original music by John Powell gets the measure of the movie by using the score to heighten the comedy. He begins with warm strings, sweet flutes and chimes but as soon as the Whos' speck begins its journey he shifts into epic brass and melodramatic adventure themes. The possible dangers to the speck are underlined by threatening strings and Vlad is represented by organ and brass horror themes. Meanwhile the Mayor warrants sprightly 50s' style motifs and brighter moments are accompanied by light jazz and accordion. But then it's back to horror themes for a major chase and a rather odd cast rendition of "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" over the end credits. It is the only part of the soundtrack that jars slightly, as the rest is more appropriate to the movie.
"Horton Hears a Who" is a wonderful madcap movie for the whole family to enjoy. It's slickly animated, frantically paced and laced with decent jokes from beginning to end. There are enough adventures for the kids to get a kick out of the moral and sufficient slapstick and sight gags to get a smile out of even the stoniest of faces. The writing is sharp and the vocal performances heartfelt and humorous. If you only see one animated movie this year, then this should be it.
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Horton Hears a Who is movie released in year 2008. It's directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino. It talks about an elephant named Horton, who hears a voice coming from a speck of dust and decides to help it, because he think, someone lives in that.
==Star Cast:==
Jim Carrey plays a role of Horton (voice)
Steve Carell plays a role of The Mayor of Whoville (voice)
Carol Burnett plays a role of Evil Kangaroo (voice)
==Plot Summary:==
Horton ... ...that speck village named Whoville. Horton decides to help and protect them from other people. But noone believes Horton, and everyone thinks that Horton is crazy, especially the evil kangaroo, who don't believe his story about these tiny people, and he understand of people is "If you don't see it, It's not there". But Horton don't give up, and stays by the motto "Person is a person, no matter how small.
==My Experiences and Views:==
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Horton Hears a Who?
Horton Hears a Who is the new animated film adaption of the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. Jim Carrey stars as Horton, an elephant who leads a pretty nice life in the jungle. One day he happens upon a dust speck that lands on a clover. In credibly he thinks he hears a voice coming form the speck, and lo and behold, he is right. It is the voice of Ned McDodd the Mayor of Whoville. Whoville is a small, microscopic I guess you ... ...on during the movie.
Horton and the mayor decide that the clover is not the safest place for the speck and he decides to move it to a new home, a flower on the very top of a hill far, far away. Most of the movie then follows Horton on his journey to re-home the speck. However, along the way he faces trouble from the Sour Kangaroo (played by Carol Burnett - a legendary actress in America). If you want to find out if he re-homes the speck or not then ...
Spottydog11 26.06.2008
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Advantages: A wonderful film for young children Disadvantages: Not so great for older children or adults
Horton the elephant lives in the jungle of Nool with all his other animal friends. But one day everything suddenly changes for Horton when he hears voices coming from a tiny speck of dust. He saves the speck of dust and carries it around with the utmost care. But no one else believes that a town of people could possibly be living in a speck of dust and so Horton becomes the target of ridicule with everyone thinking he is crazy. The mean Kangaroo ... ...of Nool to turn against Horton and destroy the speck of dust. Meanwhile, the people of Whoville, who live in the tiny city within the speck of dust, think that their Mayor is also crazy, who believes that there is a giant elephant carrying their town around. But, despite the ridicule both Horton and the Mayor of Whoville receive from their piers, they must do everything they can to save the tiny town. ~ Voices ~ Horton - Jim Carrey The Mayor of Whoville ...
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Advantages: Great fun family film, excellent animation, good story Disadvantages: None
Horton Hears a Who is a film which has been based on very popular book by Dr Seuss. As my 6 year old is a fan of the books I decided to treat him to the film. I will admit I have now watched it twice as I wanted to watch it on my own with no interruptions first!
The film stars an elephant named Horton, voiced by Jim Carrey, who lives in the jungle of Nool. He has many friends and spends his day teaching the children. One day when he is having a ... ...coming from a tiny speck. Horton follows the noise and manages to catch the speck on a flower. No one believes him when he tells them and tells him to stop being so silly and to stop making the children believe daft things. Horton knows he is right and soon he managed to talk to one of the people on the speck. The speck is home to Who-Ville, this is a lace where nothing goes wrong and everyone is happy. The mayor of Who-ville manages to talk to Horton ...
sewbizzie 24.01.2009
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Advantages: hilariously finny! Disadvantages: childish humour at times!
...follows:
Jim Carrey ... Horton (voice) Steve Carell ... The Mayor of Whoville (voice) Carol Burnett ... Kangaroo (voice) Will Arnett ... Vlad (voice) Seth Rogen ... Morton (voice) Dan Fogler ... Councilman / Yummo Wickersham (voice) Isla Fisher ... Dr. Mary Lou Larue (voice) Jonah Hill ... Tommy (voice) Amy Poehler ... Sally O'Malley (voice) Jaime Pressly ... Mrs. Quilligan (voice) Charles Osgood ... Narrator (voice) Josh Flitter ... Rudy (voice) ... ...Adventure; The Yes Man etc.) Horton and the Grinch are the only 2 that stand out and cannot be said that they are the same actor! Maybe it's just because he's an elephant in here.
Steve Carell is also a well-known actor, he plays the mayor of Whoville, which is also annoying because we don't actually know he's name, he's only known as the mayor, which annoyed me. Steve Carell is starting to grow on me and he acted well in this film, well okay maybe ...
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Based on the 1954 children's book by Dr. Seuss, HORTON HEARS A WHO! is a 2008 computer-animated Hollywood update of the beloved illustrated tale. Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey), a thoughtful elephant living in the jungle of Nool, discovers that an entire society, Whoville, rests inside a speck. He gently rests it on a clover flower, and searches for a place where it will be safe from the perils of the larger world. Establishing contact with Whoville's befuddled mayor (Steve Carell), Horton faces disbelief from his animal friends, including his blue mouse pal, Morton (Seth Rogen), and unwittingly incurs the wrath of an uptight kangaroo (Carol Burnett), setting the playful pachyderm on a journey to the most remote parts of Nool, with malicious vultures and monkeys not far behind.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
ICE AGE short: SURVIVING SID, Limited edition, Bonus Digital Copy, ICE AGE short: SURVIVING SID
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital
Professional reviews
Review
Charming, funny and great turns from a cast with no finger-wagging (Empire, 18/09/2008)
DVD Description
Based on the 1954 children's book by Dr. Seuss, HORTON HEARS A WHO! is a 2008 computer-animated Hollywood update of the beloved illustrated tale. Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey), a thoughtful elephant living in the jungle of Nool, discovers that an entire society, Whoville, rests inside a speck. He gently rests it on a clover flower, and searches for a place where it will be safe from the perils of the larger world. Establishing contact with Whoville's befuddled mayor (Steve Carell), Horton faces disbelief from his animal friends, including his blue mouse pal, Morton (Seth Rogen), and unwittingly incurs the wrath of an uptight kangaroo (Carol Burnett), setting the playful pachyderm on a journey to the most remote parts of Nool, with malicious vultures and monkeys not far behind. Executive produced by Chris Wedge, the creator of ICE AGE, and directed by Steve Martino and Jimmy Hayward, this CGI take on Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel) is the first 21st-century adaptation to hew closely to the artist's true spirit and visual style. While Carrey, Carell, Burnett, and the rest of the vocal talent (also including Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, and Jonah Hill) contribute lively performances, the animation is the real focus of the film, displaying a stunning array of colourful characters and landscapes that capture Seuss's wonderfully whimsical aesthetic. Though Seuss loyalists might be dismayed by some liberties taken (particularly a Japanese anime-style interlude and a brief musical number set to a REO Speedwagon hit), the movie's heart is in the right place, resulting in a top-notch family feature.
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