Aidan the Aspie Critic: The Lorax

When I was is Grand forks on spring break, I saw the new Lorax movie. My mom was a bit worried about going to see it because she thought the movie might ruin the book. The Lorax is my mom's absolute favourite Dr. Seuss story. The Lorax book is about a WALL-E style world of trash, smog, and gunk. It's also about how the world got to be like that. The most famous line in The Lorax is when the greedy old businessman, the Once-Ler, gives a trufula tree seed to a small boy who wants to restore the world. The quote is, "Unless someone like you, cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." Yes, indeed, The Lorax is a very heartwarming story. But that, my friends, is the book I'm talking about.

The movie is a WHOLE different story. (SPOILER ALERT! If you don't want to know what happens, skip to the next paragraph.) The movie was about a small boy who lives in a town called, Thneedville. A thneed is kind of like a sweater made out of the tuft of a Trufula tree. The Once-Ler cut down the whole Trufula forest to get enough tufts to make his Thneeds. The boy is in love with a girl named Audrey who is played by Taylor Swift the Country-Pop star. Audrey wants to see a real tree more than anything. So the boy is determined to get her a tree. His Granny tells him to go to see the old Once-Ler to find out how to get a tree. But the Once-Ler lives out of town and no one ever goes out of town in Thneedville. An evil corporation called O-Hare air runs the town and they sell air because the air quality in Thneedville is TERRIBLE! Anyway, O-hare air doesn't like people going out town for some strange reason. Anyway, the Once-Ler tells a big story of how the world got trashed and gives the boy a Trufula seed so that he can restore the world so the Lorax and all of his friends can come back.

It was a cute movie but it wasn't that great. It was good, but not great. I think all the musical numbers were useless and cheesy. The singing would've been better off left out. The story was not very accurate to the book. There were many environmental commentaries. Like when the salesmen marketing air say to their boss, "This new Bottled Air is going to be a hit! Put anything in plastic and people will buy it!" It gets me every time! So, overall, It was a cute movie but just cuteness alone is not enough. I would only give it about 3 stars out of 5. Have you seen The Lorax? If so, what did you think of it? Tell me in the comments!