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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "...tells it with Seussian visual panache, jaunty songs and humor... as this is one of the Doc's more political stories (it could even be called anti-capitalist), you may want to talk to kids about the issues it raises." (Read the full review...) 175 words, 03/01/12 Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...cheerfully faithful to its source.... Dramatically, the movie barely rises above the generic. It lacks the spark and poignancy of the 2008 'Horton Hears a Who!' But kids should have a ball occupying the new 'Lorax.' " (Read the full review...) 841 words, 03/02/12 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "It's got a winningly whimsical Seussian spirit, though it could have used a pinch of his doggerel-driven anarchy. (Seuss' brilliantly playful language? Not there.)" (Read the full review...) 109 words, 03/02/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "...thoroughly debases the genius of the good doctor's book, adding characters, twisting plot points, and replacing Seuss subtlety with Hollywood frenzy." (Read the full review...) 190 words, 03/02/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a parable of green vs. greed. All ages are likely to find the cautionary tale entertaining as well as illuminating. Some might even find it galvanizing." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 03/02/12 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: WEAK (cg) "Co-directors Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda earn some points for evoking the Seuss aesthetic remarkably well... But it's all padding..." (Read the full review...) 664 words, 03/01/12 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...solidly entertaining - not quite as good as 'Horton Hears a Who' or 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' - but unquestionably better than 'The Cat in the Hat.' " (Read the full review...) 926 words, 02/29/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 03/02/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...charmingly animated... the filmmakers, who worked on 'Horton' as well as 'Despicable Me,' deftly balance entertainment with education." (Read the full review...) 380 words, 03/02/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Although it keeps intact the ecological message of one of the original tree-hugger books... this version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 03/02/12 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "I am the critic, I speak to displease: 'The Lorax' is awful, like chronic disease." (Read the full review...) 589 words, 03/02/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite.... you couldn't accuse the film of practicing what it preaches: careful stewardship of a precious resource." (Read the full review...) 650 words, 03/02/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A lively adaptation of Seuss' ecological fable, with terrific voice work from Helms and DeVito as philosophical foes." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 03/02/12 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: POOR "The badness of the picture is a shock.... You can still discern the stark fable beneath the movie's jokey tone, but barely: The devastation is nearly complete." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 03/05/12 Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...definitely a joy... Director Chris Renaud and his team use 3-D creatively and with panache, and they have assembled the perfect voice talent and animation design crew." (Read the full review...) 703 words, 03/02/12 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...piously preaches the gospel of the organic, holistic world... the lesson will please or displease parents according to their prejudices, while the means of delivery is an offense that transcends party lines." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 03/07/12 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "From the opening song-and-dance production number introducing us to the plastic-loving population of Thneedville, to the adorably comic critters who live in the lush valley, this kid-pleasing movie packs a visual punch and a worthy message." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 03/02/12 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...puffed up with lots of extraneous stuff - Super fun for the kids but for grown-ups? Just fluff." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 03/02/12 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...filled with silent slapstick, celebrity voice cameos (Danny DeVito is perfect in the title role), pop culture references and overlong musical numbers. Seuss won't roll over in his grave - just shudder slightly." (Read the full review...) 170 words, 03/01/12
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "Like 'An Inconvenient Truth' for the 12-and-under crowd.... a movie that progressives can feel good about taking their kids to, without actually having a good time." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 03/02/12 Barbara Vancheri, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...fanciful, full-bodied animation. 'Oh, the places we'll go,' with or without the 3-D glasses." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 03/02/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: WEAK (cg) "Oddly, for a message film about conservation, the bulk of the movie is inert filler. The simple charm that makes Seuss magical is crushed beneath the stuffing." (Read the full review...) 396 words, 03/02/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...really fun..." (Read the full review...) 619 words, 03/02/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "Despite some schmaltz and pandering, this is a still a nifty feat of protest whose activism comes mostly from songs." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 03/02/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "It's not that it's a dreadful cartoon. It just feels like every other middling cartoon." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 03/02/12 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "The whole thing is harmless... sunny and funny and cute, from a trio of harmonizing fish to the spunky grandma voiced, inevitably, by Betty White.... It's perfectly sweet." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 03/02/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Filled with blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail... populated by a Seussian zoo of whimsical creatures... moves along swiftly, barely giving us time to wonder at the rainbow of cotton-candy trees, their heads gently floating in the breeze." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 03/02/12 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...dilutes much of the essence of the original without replacing it with anything particularly original or resonant." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 03/02/12 Jody Mitori, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...while the movie is funnier than the book, the drawback of this modernized version is that it loses the timeless quality of the story on the page." (Read the full review...) 362 words, 03/02/12 Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times: GOOD (cg) "There is nice stuff found in 'The Lorax' -- Thneedville's artificial nature is inspired -- and bad, like the original songs nobody will be humming when they leave the theater. But good intentions don't trump mediocre filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 03/01/12 Chris Vognar, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a little overstuffed with story. But the design is witty and imaginative, and the small grace notes are enough to keep an open-minded adult giggling." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 03/02/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...piously preaches the gospel of the organic, holistic world... the lesson will please or displease parents according to their prejudices, while the means of delivery is an offense that transcends party lines." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 03/07/12 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...a movie that is preachy but doesn't really understand what it's preachy about." (Read the full review...) 757 words, 03/02/12 Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's not 'WALL-E,' but it does bear the same cross." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 03/01/12 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a dark story with a heavy message, and it has been transformed into a harmless, pretty confection. In defanging it for comic effect, the filmmakers have done Seuss as much of a disrespectful disservice as if they'd laid on the fart gags." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 03/01/12 Jesse Hassenger, Pop Matters: WEAK (cg) "...a goodhearted movie, but it lacks the courage of simplicity... It's a pretty tree with too many trimmings." (Read the full review...) 661 words, 03/02/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: WEAK (cg) "More a bowdlerization than an adaptation... so big, flashy and redundant that it courts precisely the kind of blind consumerism it's supposed to be condemning." (Read the full review...) 898 words, 03/01/12 Nick Schager, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a modest gem, failing to significantly enhance its source material's ideas but still delivering a zany, rollicking, multi-character version of Seuss's environmental cautionary tale..." (Read the full review...) 641 words, 02/29/12 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...filled with silent slapstick, celebrity voice cameos (Danny DeVito is perfect in the title role), pop culture references and overlong musical numbers. Seuss won't roll over in his grave - just shudder slightly." (Read the full review...) 170 words, 03/01/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 03/02/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Although it keeps intact the ecological message of one of the original tree-hugger books... this version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 03/02/12
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: FAIR "...has its share of eye-popping amusements, but its wobbly pacing and routine kidpic elements make for an experience that feels not just tiresome and rudderless but antithetical to the Seuss spirit." (Read the full review...) 795 words, 02/29/12 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...the most satisfyingly Seussian big screen effort to date.... entertains while delivering its pro-environmental, anti-greed message wrapped in a bright package of primary colors that truly pop." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 02/29/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Although it keeps intact the ecological message of one of the original tree-hugger books... this version adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good and not in keeping with the spirit of the Seuss original." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 03/02/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "...a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 03/02/12
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