One member of the jungle, Sour Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), takes it one step further. Determined to save the tiny particle and deposit it somewhere in the jungle where it will be safe from harm (any time Horton jostles the flower on which Who-ville is perched, cataclysmic tremors rock the city), Horton becomes an object of ridicule and embarrassment.

It isn't long before Horton's friends think he has lost his mind. The Mayor of Who-ville can't convince the town about Horton While neither can fathom each other's existence at first, nor what such a revelation means in the big picture, they cannot ignore the evidence before them. Of course, the Mayor doesn't know he's microscopic any more than Horton imagines his is a universe of gargantuan size. For on that single microscopic speck live the sub-atomic Whos in their infinitesimal city of Who-ville, led by their bumbling but well-intentioned Mayor (Steve Carell). It turns out that voice is but one among thousands.

Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! may not be that perfect film, it certainly comes the closest so far.Īs if atoning for his sins in The Grinch, Jim Carrey returns as the voice of Horton the Elephant, a playful pachyderm of boundless imagination whose enormous ears allow him to hear a barely audible cry for help emanating from a tiny speck of dust floating through his jungle. Seuss that Hollywood keeps trying, again and again, until they finally get one right. Perhaps it is proof of our culture's deep and abiding love of writer and cartoonist Dr. Horton eyes the speck from which he heard the cry

Horton hears a who by dr seuss