The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

[Drunk Monk]

This remains my fav Dr. Seuss book.

As y'all know, I worked Reggae on the River for years. Saw a lot of reggae, had countless adventures, but what stands out in my memory as my favorite experience was when Julia Butterfly Hill, the woman who did that historic tree sit in Luna and embodies the modern Lorax, read the Lorax in the kid zone. There were only a few of us. Sadly T doesn't remember it as she was too young.

I even poached the final UNLESS speech for one of my Publisher's notes in KFTC. Kept the phrasing but made it about traditional kung fu instead of truffula trees. It totally worked and no one ever caught on (or at least, no one ever called me on it).

[Drunk Monk]

...they made this abomination of a movie about it. Ruined it on every level. Devito was okay actually. I've warmed up to him from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Swift and Efron were lame, and even with them on board, the music was lame too...too Glee (a show I've never watched as of yet). They add a front story and back story that's just lame. They totally soften the message. They show the Once-ler, which is horribly, horribly lame. The sad exodus of the barbaluts, the humming fish, the swomee swans, the impact of the gloppity glop, it's glossed over in a lame fashion. There is one good random scene in the truffala forest involving marshmallows - good 3d - but that's so not worth sitting through the rest of the lameness. There were a lot of nods to Seuss - main character named Ted, released on his bday, etc - but in the end...LAME.

T said I should have expected it to be so. She liked the fat barbalut. M said it was a typical kid's film, totally predictable, unlike Hugo. D said 'yup'.

I can only hope it inspires people to go back and read the original, which is a masterpiece on every level.