This film was ok, though I don't think it was worth all the hyp. There was some really funny stuff in it, and a good moral, but overall the story was too short for a full length feature film. It got a bit slow in places. It's worth renting at least just for some of the great funny moments but I don't think I'd buy it.

I'm sorry, I just simply MUST disagree with you, Bob. In fact, everyone I know (with the exception of 1 because he didn't watch it) loves this film.

It was VERY true to the book (finally!!!). It just added character development. This was necessary since Horton Hears a Who is about 20 pages and has about 2 sentences a page.

The best part HAS TO BE the part where Horton is imagining he's a hero of some kind...it flips to 2d anime animation - and it's clearly parodying Dragon Ball Z. And I don't mind that at all.

It's definitely a family movie. Watch it - everyone will get something out of it. That's why it made $300,000,000. It's a good movie.

There are great messages also throughout the film. Use your imagination, a person's a person (anti-abortion! WOOT), and so myriad other things it really would be extraneous to talk about them here.

4/4. Watch it. Enjoy!

The original Horton Hears a Who book is charming, funny, heartwarming and has a good message. However, this latest adaption of the book from Blue Sky Animation is not. Blue Sky has officially gone the Dreamwork's route. Big name actors, pop culture jokes every 5 seconds, and even worse... having the characters break into some old 80s pop song at the end. UGH. Double UGH. AGGGH. That's like the "trend" now with these non-Pixar films (with some exceptions of course). It's been happening ever since the first Shrek film.

I wouldn't mind so much if they kept the characters... in character... but of course that doesn't happen.

Horton's character was completely wrong. He was basically Jim Carry doing a comedy routine in an elephant suit. Don't get me wrong, I like some of Jim Carry's work and he's a good actor... he just wasn't right for this role.

As for the technical side... it was high quality and pretty technically impressive.
However, I did not care for the character designs. They just didn't do a good job adapting the 2D designs to 3D.
The animation was pretty good but something with that didn't click with me either. There were some well animated sequences but I thought the chracter animation on Horton and the Mayor looked... way overdone... almost like a Don Bluth film where the characters constantly flail their arms around...

The 2D anime sequence, while I thought it was out-of-place and just out of nowhere, was very well done. I wish the whole film was done in 2D. I probably would've given this a higher visual rating.

The only scene that I actually laughed at was the dentist scene. The whole sequence (cutting back and forth between Horton and the Who dentist office) was funny and very well animated.

Anyway, I do not recommend the film... at all. If you want a fun night out with the family just go to a friends house and pop in a Pixar movie or a classic Disney film or something.