There are too many whack-a-mole sight gags featuring adorable bar-ba-loots (bears to you) and three warbling fish. The movie is broad and raucous and rather campy, and the songs, among them an ironic celebration of capitalism, barely pass muster.
But given nonstop, crass one-liners, he comes to embody the spirit of the movie in ways I don't think the filmmakers intended. He's a good, pushy sitcom actor with expert timing. I don't blame DeVito: It's not as if he was hired for his subtlety. Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) tries to impress Audrey (Taylor Swift) by running into the wasteland to talk to the Once-ler. But it's nowhere near Seuss' top tier: It doesn't have that thrilling mixture of anarchism and elegance. It's an environmentalist classic, a walloping argument against unchecked growth. The book The Lorax tells the story, in flashback, of a young, energetic entrepreneur known as the Once-ler who grows rich by indiscriminately hacking down truffula trees and inadvertently wipes out an entire ecosystem. The directors and writers made the delightful Despicable Me, and some of them made the last and much better Seuss feature, Horton Hears a Who, but this time they don't seem to trust their material. Seuss' sublime whimsy, is basically made fun of, or at least dragged down to Earth. Early on, a character not in the book, Audrey, voiced by Taylor Swift, tells lovelorn 12-year-old Ted, voiced by Zac Efron, that once, nearby their now paved-over town, there were truffula trees: "The touch of their tufts was much softer than silk, and they had the sweet smell of fresh butterfly milk" - and Ted says, "Wow, what does that even mean?" and Audrey says, "I know, right?" So one of the only lines that is from the book, that does have Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, and little in the way of verse. It's a shame there's no narration in the animated feature, Dr. Seuss aloud, with those serpentine, nonsense words flying out of your mouth as if on their own current. And the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blowsĪnd no birds ever sing excepting old crows.
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