I love Dr. Seuss. I love how his books are filled with fantasy, strange creatures with even stranger names, and worlds filled with color that captures the attention of all audiences.
Among his works, The Lorax is one of my personal favorites because of its message about the preciousness of nature. It’s a simple tale of a greedy entrepreneur who disregards the warnings of a fuzzy orange creature. The movie, based on his book, was released March 2 from Universal Studios.
It follows the book’s deep environmental message and also adds a love story, several catchy musical numbers, and even more silliness to this classic child’s tale.
The movie begins by introducing an average 12-year-old boy named Ted (voiced by Zac Efron). Ted lives in a city that contains no nature and is constructed entirely out of manmade materials — radioactive streams, smoggy skies and plastic trees.
Ted’s heartthrob, Audrey’s (Taylor Swift) biggest desire is to own a real living tree. Ted then makes it his quest to find her one. There is only one problem: there are no trees anymore.
Based on the advice of his fun-loving grandma (voiced by Betty White) Ted goes on an adventure to find the one person who knows what happened to the trees: the Once-ler (Ed Helms).
Ted finds the Once-ler, who appears as a creepy old man living in a run down house in the middle of a barren wasteland outside of town. The Once-ler tells him the story of how he stumbled upon the forest of Truffula trees. He tells Ted of the warnings of the Lorax (voiced by