yinhorton hears a who!
March 17th 2008 06:25
[taken from my wordpress: http://nofruitplease.wordpress.com]
i've never watched/read anything by dr seuss. why? i don’t know. my mom preferred me reading disney and enid blyton instead. or maybe that was my choice. i think i was kinda creeped out by the cat in the hat. in anycase, here goes.
the theater was packed to the brim with parents and their kids. this is why i hate school holidays, now that i’m older. kids. everywhere. like the fuckin’ plague. i hate screechy ones, whiney ones, pampered and spoilt ones and hyper ones. can’t stand them. but they were surprisingly well behaved throughout the show (as opposed to my horrible encounter during Troy when this kid seated behind or beside me kept kicking the chair and making mine vibrate). the irony was that the older kids (or teenagers, whatever) were the ones making more noise, behaving like a bunch of simpering airheaded babboons and ruining moments.
no, i do not need a fucking commentary of how cute katie is and how funny horton is and jo-jo is voiced by jesse mccartney. i have eyes and ears and a fully functioning brain. please. if you want to comment, do it after the damned show not whilst it’s going on.
that said.
the show was good. wiped out all skepticism. hilarious to the point that it totally wiped out the bitchy grumpy mood. jim carrey and steve carell make an awesome comedic duo. spoiler: there was one bit where the whole show morphed into this manga-esque hihipuffyamiyumi thing that totally had me laughing my head off. and if you didn’t know, jim carrey voiced horton and steve carell was the mayor who-ville. much later on i learnt the signature comedic antics of both actors and how it was weaved in to the story. totally fascinating.
i highly doubt the kids grasped the philosophical and political undertones of the show. anarchy? authoritarian? hell i thought the damn kangaroo was frickin’ draconian. maybe the adults got it tho. but yeah, i understand that dr seuss often wove in schools of thought in his stories and whilst it wasn’t elaborated and gone into depth, you got the gist of it from the simplicity of the storyline.
1. horton & the speck on the clover vs sour kangaroo and the rest
how an individual with a different mindset of the rest threatens the stability of a society that conforms to the wills and ideals put out by another but with a stronger and assertive opinion.
2. mayor of who-ville and jojo (who’s his only son out of his family of97 where 96 of them are girls)
kids would prolly be able to catch this. a parent imposing their ideals and hopes onto one individual, usually the only son (or daughter, it all depends) or the eldest (or sometimes youngest, you get the point). not giving said child the opportunity to speak up and voice their own thoughts nor provide them with encouragement (or at least that listening ear) to pursue their own dreams.
3. imagination
something struck me as off that the ‘parents’ were worried about how horton’s fertile and creative imagination would corrupt their kids and lead them to disobeying their parents, therefore (i quote the kangaroo) resulting in anarchy. it’s like how a government stamps out certain ideals and schools of thought which could otherwise endanger their hold on the people. familiar eh?
4. a person’s a person, no matter how small
you don’t really have to explain this.
people should watch this. it’s more than just entertainment and a barrel of laughs.
i've never watched/read anything by dr seuss. why? i don’t know. my mom preferred me reading disney and enid blyton instead. or maybe that was my choice. i think i was kinda creeped out by the cat in the hat. in anycase, here goes.
the theater was packed to the brim with parents and their kids. this is why i hate school holidays, now that i’m older. kids. everywhere. like the fuckin’ plague. i hate screechy ones, whiney ones, pampered and spoilt ones and hyper ones. can’t stand them. but they were surprisingly well behaved throughout the show (as opposed to my horrible encounter during Troy when this kid seated behind or beside me kept kicking the chair and making mine vibrate). the irony was that the older kids (or teenagers, whatever) were the ones making more noise, behaving like a bunch of simpering airheaded babboons and ruining moments.
no, i do not need a fucking commentary of how cute katie is and how funny horton is and jo-jo is voiced by jesse mccartney. i have eyes and ears and a fully functioning brain. please. if you want to comment, do it after the damned show not whilst it’s going on.
that said.
the show was good. wiped out all skepticism. hilarious to the point that it totally wiped out the bitchy grumpy mood. jim carrey and steve carell make an awesome comedic duo. spoiler: there was one bit where the whole show morphed into this manga-esque hihipuffyamiyumi thing that totally had me laughing my head off. and if you didn’t know, jim carrey voiced horton and steve carell was the mayor who-ville. much later on i learnt the signature comedic antics of both actors and how it was weaved in to the story. totally fascinating.
i highly doubt the kids grasped the philosophical and political undertones of the show. anarchy? authoritarian? hell i thought the damn kangaroo was frickin’ draconian. maybe the adults got it tho. but yeah, i understand that dr seuss often wove in schools of thought in his stories and whilst it wasn’t elaborated and gone into depth, you got the gist of it from the simplicity of the storyline.
1. horton & the speck on the clover vs sour kangaroo and the rest
how an individual with a different mindset of the rest threatens the stability of a society that conforms to the wills and ideals put out by another but with a stronger and assertive opinion.
2. mayor of who-ville and jojo (who’s his only son out of his family of97 where 96 of them are girls)
kids would prolly be able to catch this. a parent imposing their ideals and hopes onto one individual, usually the only son (or daughter, it all depends) or the eldest (or sometimes youngest, you get the point). not giving said child the opportunity to speak up and voice their own thoughts nor provide them with encouragement (or at least that listening ear) to pursue their own dreams.
3. imagination
something struck me as off that the ‘parents’ were worried about how horton’s fertile and creative imagination would corrupt their kids and lead them to disobeying their parents, therefore (i quote the kangaroo) resulting in anarchy. it’s like how a government stamps out certain ideals and schools of thought which could otherwise endanger their hold on the people. familiar eh?
4. a person’s a person, no matter how small
you don’t really have to explain this.
people should watch this. it’s more than just entertainment and a barrel of laughs.
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I'm not a fan of kids at the moment either -- ahem, apart from my nephews