When comparing the songs to those of another recent family-friendly movie musical, The Muppets, the Lorax’s songs are just okay.
Expecting to give it two stars, I was also wondering how the film would live up to the book. The Lorax is a surprisingly good family film with so-so songs, a great voice cast, and creative animation!!!!! Walking into the theatre I had pretty low expectations. However, if he doesn’t believe in his mission a lot he just won’t make it, he will not!!!!! Along with his grandmother, his mom, and others, he embarks on a quest to find a non-plastic tree in his all plastic world, guarded by evil businessmen. He meets the Oncler who tells him the story of the Lorax and helps on his adventure. It is about a young boy named Ted who sets out on a journey to find a tree for Audrey (which is also the name of Dr. The Lorax is loosely based on the classic Dr. Here’s Flack’s Review of the film, The Lorax: As always Seuss uses clever rhymes and crazy characters to teach kids and remind the adult readers to think about our actions and teach us important life lessons. Whether you see the movie or not, I recommend reading or re-reading the book, The Lorax by Dr. In The Lorax, Seuss shows us how our greed for material things and over consumption of natural resources will have (and already has) serious implications for the Earth and its inhabitants. This leaves the reader to ponder what they might do in the same situation. Seuss tells a story involving serious issues and conflicts and–depending on what the characters choose to do–the repercussions that follow. I didn’t see the film but have read the book and love the way Dr. One of my sons liked it more than he thought (read review below), the other one not so much (review to follow). Seuss book with the same name would be adapted to the big screen. They did not go in with high expectations for the film, more for the fun of seeing a movie with good friends and curious to how the beloved Dr.
My boys recently saw the animated film, The Lorax.