The Lorax

Peter Rainer / Christian Science Monitor
Mar 02, 2012
Director Chris Renaud and his team have fun with these dithery, frenetic characters. The film is less special when it slows down and takes a breath of fresh air.

Richard Roeper / Richard Roeper.com
Mar 02, 2012
This tale is filled with delightful characters and it's sugarcoated with vibrant animation and candy colors.

David Edelstein / New York Magazine
Mar 02, 2012
The badness of the picture is a shock.

Nick Pinkerton / Village Voice
Mar 02, 2012
Par for the course in blowout CGI adaptations, a great deal of detail and bustle is gained at the expense of charm-for all the miracles these armies of animators can achieve, they have yet to successfully reproduce a humble artist's line.

Ben Sachs / Chicago Reader
Mar 02, 2012
Hypocrisy on an epic scale, this computer-animated feature turns the Dr. Seuss classic about corporate greed into a multimillion-dollar toy commercial.

Stephen Whitty / Newark Star-Ledger
Mar 02, 2012
"Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" eschews [Seuss'] unique style in favor of less risky, more generic characters. It looks like something you've seen before.

Rafer Guzman / Newsday
Mar 02, 2012
Where "The Lorax" succeeds, it's by letting its Seussian spirit shine through.

Jennie Punter / Globe and Mail
Mar 02, 2012
It's puffed up with lots of extraneous stuff - Super fun for the kids but for grown-ups? Just fluff.

Kyle Smith / New York Post
Mar 02, 2012
I am the critic, I speak to displease: "The Lorax" is awful, like chronic disease.

Michael O'Sullivan / Washington Post
Mar 02, 2012
It looks like a bowl of fuzzy Froot Loops. But it goes down like an order of oatmeal.

Amy Biancolli / San Francisco Chronicle
Mar 01, 2012
The whole thing is harmless.

Kenneth Turan / Los Angeles Times
Mar 01, 2012
This movie 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.

Claudia Puig / USA Today
Mar 01, 2012
It remains faithful to the spirit of Seuss. The pro-conservation, anti-consumerist message of the book is heartily intact. And, like the Seuss story, the film never resorts to sermonizing.

Wesley Morris / Boston Globe
Mar 01, 2012
Despite some schmaltz and pandering, this is a still a nifty feat of protest whose activism now comes mostly from songs.

Chris Vognar / Dallas Morning News
Mar 01, 2012
The design is witty and imaginative, and the small grace notes are enough to keep an open-minded adult giggling.

Colin Covert / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mar 01, 2012
Did you ever get a package where the bubble wrap was 10 times the volume of the item inside? That's what "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" is like.

A.O. Scott / New York Times
Mar 01, 2012
The movie is a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension.

Bill Goodykoontz / Arizona Republic
Mar 01, 2012
The film, directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda, adds several characters to the original story -- and a few boffo song-and-dance numbers, as well.

Elizabeth Weitzman / New York Daily News
Mar 01, 2012
Even adults are likely to walk out wondering how our own society has strayed so far from any sensible path ... before hopping into their Lorax-approved Mazda and heading to IHOP for some Truffula Chip pancakes.

Roger Moore / Dallas Morning News
Mar 01, 2012
The gorgeous and glorious new film of this fable from Universal's "Despicable Me" team turns a somewhat gloomy, cautionary tale into a 3-D musical, with catchy tunes and gags borrowed from every film from "Toy Story" to "Babe."

The Lorax Cast:

• Betty White
• Danny DeVito
• Ed Helms
• Taylor Swift
• Zac Efron