He Built A Fence Just To Punish Neighbors 😵
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This is for informational purposes only. I am not a tree whisperer. Yet.
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax hits different. The 2012 animated film takes a pretty heavy book about greed and destruction and somehow makes it singable. 🌳
The Once-ler starts as a dreamy inventor. He ends up as a faceless corporate villain in a tower. The arc is brutal. The songs slap anyway.
The Lorax himself is orange. He is small. He speaks for the trees because they have no tongues. This is played for laughs until it absolutely is not.
The Truffula Trees look like cotton candy exploded. The Bar-ba-loots are basically bears that eat fruit. The Swomee-Swans fly until smog ruins their day. The Humming-Fish hum until their river gets gunked. Every creature gets a raw deal.
The Thneed is the worst product ever invented. It is a sweater. It is a sock. It is a glove. It is somehow also a carpet. The Once-ler sells millions. Nobody needed this. Everyone buys it anyway. Capitalism, baby! 💅
Ted is the kid who wants to impress a girl with a real tree. His mom thinks this is weird. The whole town of Thneedville is fake plastic everything. Air gets sold in bottles. The richest dude literally bottles and sells fresh air to people poisoned by his own company. The metaphor is not subtle. It works anyway.
The musical numbers are genuinely catchy. "How Bad Can I Be?" is a banger about rationalizing your own awfulness. "Let It Grow" is the big finale where everyone rebels. You will hum both.
The 3D is actually used well. Things pop. Trees feel reachable. The destruction feels worse when it surrounds you.
Danny DeVito as the Lorax was perfect casting. He sounds exactly like a tiny furious environmental guardian should sound. Zac Efron plays Ted with earnest teen energy. Taylor Swift voices the love interest because 2012.
The message is simple: greed wrecks everything. The movie earned over (Typically retails around *US dollars) 340 million anyway. Irony is delicious. 🍿
How To Actually Watch This Without Being A Bore About It
First viewing: enjoy the colors. Don't analyze. The songs are earworms. Let them infect you.
Second viewing: notice how fast the Once-ler's "just one tree" becomes "cut them all." The slope is slippery and rhymed.
Watch with kids, then ask what they noticed. They catch the Bar-ba-loots losing their food. They get fairness before economics.
Spot the background details. The Once-ler's factory grows like a monster. Thneedville's walls have cracks