Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Danny DeVito | ... | The Lorax (voice) | |
Ed Helms | ... | The Once-ler (voice) | |
Zac Efron | ... | Ted (voice) | |
Taylor Swift | ... | Audrey (voice) | |
Betty White | ... | Grammy Norma (voice) | |
Rob Riggle | ... | Mr. O'Hare (voice) | |
Jenny Slate | ... | Ted's Mom (voice) | |
Nasim Pedrad | ... | Once-ler's Mom (voice) | |
Joel Swetow | ... | 1st Marketing Guy (voice) | |
Michael Beattie | ... | 2nd Marketing Guy (voice) | |
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Dave B. Mitchell | ... | 1st Commercial Guy (voice) (as Dave Mitchell) |
Dempsey Pappion | ... | 2nd Commercial Guy (voice) | |
Elmarie Wendel | ... | Aunt Grizelda (voice) | |
Danny Cooksey | ... | Brett / Chet (voice) | |
Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | Uncle Ubb (voice) |
In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity, a boy named Ted hopes to win the heart of his dream girl, Audrey. When he learns of her wish to see a real tree, Ted seeks out the Once-ler, a ruined old businessman outside of town in a stark wasteland. Upon hearing of how the hermit gave into his greed for profits and devastated the land over the protests of the Lorax, Ted is inspired to undo the disaster. However, the greedy Mayor of Thneed-Ville, Aloysius O'Hare, has made his fortune exploiting the environmental collapse and is determined to stop the boy from undermining his business. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
This movie is fairly entertaining for children. However, it leaves very little for others.
I went to see The Lorax because I have always loved Dr. Seuss. However, next to following the basic story-line from the book, there was really no Dr. Seuss to be seen. At no point were the fun rhymes from the book used in the movie. In fact, there were no rhymes at all. The voice acting was decent and the graphics were fine. However, I saw very little advantage seeing it in 3D. If they had just included more Dr. Seuss and less pointless musicals, this movie would have been much better.