Horton Hears a Who! is an interestingly political work where Dr Seuss is said to have based the character of the sour kangaroo and her crusade against ideological correctness on Senator Joseph McCarthy who ran a campaign to purge suspected Communist sympathisers from the US government in the 1950s. Dr Seuss published Horton Hears a Who! in 1954 – it was a sequel to an earlier Seuss work Horton Hatches an Egg (1940), wherein the title elephant is ridiculed for agreeing to sit in a tree and mind a bird’s nest while its mother take a leave of absence. Certainly, Horton Hears a Who!, their fourth feature-length film, was their most successful film up to that point and opened at the No 1 spot at the box-office in almost every country around the world.įor Horton Hears a Who!, Blue Sky have turned to one of the children’s books of Dr Seuss. Blue Sky’s animated films have yet to win them the endearing love that each new Pixar film is greeted with – they still seem stuck down at the level of earnest Pixar wannabes. Blue Sky Studios first appeared with the successful Ice Age (2002) and then went onto Robots (2005), Ice Age 2 (2006), Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), Epic (2013), Rio 2 (2014), The Peanuts Movie (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Ferdinand (2017) and Spies in Disguise (2019). In the last few years, the visual effects company Blue Sky Studios has transformed into a CGI animation company and started to give Pixar and others a run for their money in terms of competing for the increasingly more lucrative animation box-office dollar. Horton attempts to carry the clover to a place of safety atop Mount Nool but the kangaroo has hired the vulture Vlad to destroy the clover. His claims to be hearing Horton’s voice are ridiculed by the members of the council who regard him as a boob because they are determined that nothing ever goes wrong in Whoville. At the same time, Ned realizes that chaos is being caused in Whoville because the clover is being moved around. When others children start imitating Horton, the sour kangaroo determines to destroy the clover. Horton’s claim to having a speck of dust with people living on it is ridiculed by a sour kangaroo who insists that the animals only believe in what they can see, hear and feel. Horton’s voice is able to be heard by Ned McDodd, the mayor of Whoville, because it is amplified through the arrangement of pipes on his house, while Horton is the only one able to hear Ned because of his large ears. He realizes that the speck of dust is an entire world inhabited by a race of people. He chases after the speck and rescues it as it settles on a clover. She then joins Horton and the others in singing Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore.In the jungle of Nool, Horton the elephant is having a bath when a speck of dust blows past him and he hears a voice faintly crying from it. In the end, Horton forgives her despite everything she has done to him. Jane tells everyone to take the clover from her son, only to be shunned by everyone for tricking them. When he fails to do so, she orders her henchmen, a group of monkeys known as The Wickersham Brothers, to take the speck from Horton and intimidate him into saying that the Whos do not exist.Īfter everybody was able to hear the Whos, her son named Rudy jumped out of his mother's pouch and gave the speck back to Horton, much to Sour's dismay. She hires a vulture named Vlad to steal the clover bearing the speck for her. Jane is a busybody and creator of the jungle's laws, who does not believe Horton the Elephant about the Whos and Whoville on the dust speck (mainly due to being under the misapprehension that anything which cannot be seen, heard or felt is nonexistent).
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