Horton Hears a Who! (20th Century Fox/Dr. Seuss Enterprises)
Dr. Seuss has not had much success on the big screen recently. The two live action films based on his books How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat were atrocious and gave me nightmares in ways that horror films never have. Neither film captured even the slightest inkling of Dr. Seuss' charm or humor. In fact you have to go all the way back to 1953's The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T to find a good live action feature based on something Dr. Seuss wrote. So when I heard that Jim Carrey - the Grinch in Ron Howard's big screen fiasco - was doing Horton Hears a Who! (opened March 14 throughout San Diego), I must confess that it sent a shiver down my spine. But then I heard that it would be animated and that Ice Age's Chris Wedge would serve as executive producer - two reasons to be hopeful that maybe this time Hollywood would get it right.
