Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!

They finally get it right! With this latest animated Dr. Seuss adaptation, Horton Hears a Who! re-creates all the endearing Seussian qualities we’ve come to cherish.

Horton Hears a Who! is bright and colorful and guaranteed to distract young ones for 88 minutes.

A magical spin on an old favorite that only enhances its thrills while not abandoning the book’s sweet, selfless message.

This is animation most animate, a kid-pic so rare, that even adults will fall off their chairs!

Outstanding colors and interesting songs will hold every youngster's attention. Boredom is something definitely not a factor in Horton Hears a Who!

With a cross-generational cast of comedic icons and the altruistic storytelling of Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who! should not be missed.

Finally! For the first time, Hollywood has made a whimsical, witty, feature-length version of Dr. Seuss that's neither overblown nor smutty nor emotionally hollow.

And thanks to Horton Hears a Who! we are again reminded that a wonderful movie is a wonderful movie no matter how G.

What anchors Horton Hears a Who! is Carrey's perfect vocal depiction of Horton -- witty and chatty, but with a surprising sweetness.

The film is full of delightfully surprising moments that feel novel yet organically consistent with Seuss' vision.

Horton Hears a Who! is razzle-dazzling and artful, and it builds on Seuss' words by the clever cart-full.

For adults, the film does more than trigger nostalgia: It demonstrates the sweetness and toughness of childhood ideals, and says carrying them with you makes you stronger.

This is an animated movie that, unlike the recent Shrek series, for example, doesn't try to play up to adults while playing down to children.

If I ran the circus, the gang that made the sturdy, witty, inventively animated Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! would get first dibs on any future movie productions of the Theodor Seuss Geisel canon.

Despite voice acting from a who's who (get it!?) of 21st-century comedy, Horton stays true to Seuss in flavor, style and humor.

The script is amazingly funny, yet look: The characters' spirit stays true to the book!

A strong cast and a funny adaptation of the classic children's book make Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! equally fun for children and adults.

Directors Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino direct with a keen eye for bringing Dr. Seuss' whimsical drawings and humanistic message to CG life.

Seuss purists may be put off by one scene that portrays Horton in anime form, like something out of Pokemon, but the idea is at least imaginative.

Horton Hears a Who! has all the metaphysical wonder, romanticism and well-carved idealism -- as well as the constant circus parade of eccentric characters -- that Seuss fans might expect.

Horton Hears a Who! is the best cartoon ever to come out of Blue Sky Studios, the animation house that produced the Ice Age blockbusters. And for that, Fox and Blue Sky have Dr. Seuss to thank.

The real star of the show for chaperones and their charges will be Steve Carell, who lends his earnest Dunder-Mifflin charm to his role as the mayor of the tiny town.

If you're willing to ignore the Hollywood gloss and enjoy the cinematic experience, you'll find a Horton that's faithful, if not 100 percent, to the spirit of the beloved children's classic.

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is by far the best of the recent movie features that were based on late author and artist Theodor Seuss Geisel's beloved children's books.

The movie seems updated without playing too loose. Though the dialogue is mainly in modern-day prose there are rhymes from the book that most anyone knows.

The delightful Horton Hears a Who! makes a convincing argument that any future Seuss adaptations should be the sole domain of CGI animators.

Horton is a wonderful family outing for parents to share with their children.

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is the first feature-length Seuss movie adaptation to adequately evoke the warmhearted eccentricity of Theodore Geisel's classic children's books.

The computer animation is lovingly layered, and the book's moral to stand up and be counted arrives intact, matched by a message to enjoy imagination.

The third time's the charm for Dr. Seuss after the grotesque live-action feature adaptations of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat.

Unlike those behind the recent live-action grotesqueries The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat, the makers of the Horton Hears a Who!, a most genial animation, do well by the great, good medic of metrical writing.

Although Horton tinkers slightly with Theodor Seuss Geisel's 1954 book, it remains faithful to its original drawings, spirit, message and celebration of imagination and respect for others.

Horton looks stunning, down to the individual strands of hair and reflections in the water.

This tender, big-hearted adventure astutely refuses to stray too far from its source material, padding out the book's story in minor ways but remaining fundamentally faithful to its narrative and thematic template.

Jim Carrey is funny, for the first time in years.

Tastier than a platter of green eggs and ham, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is a pachyderm-sized helping of silliness and graceful imagination.

Horton is mostly up to the challenge of adapting Seuss' brief, deceptively simple books to the 90-minute format of kids' movies.

With Horton Hears a Who!, filmmakers have gotten quite a few things right, chief among them the fact that this gorgeously animated tale looks just like a Dr. Seuss book come to life.

Thankfully, this colorful adaptation has filled out Horton's original adventure without losing sight of its simple but important message.

The computer-animated Horton is largely funny and faithful to the spirit of the Dr. Seuss book.

Horton Hears a Who! lacks the head-to-tail heft of a cartoon classic, but staying true to Seuss while engaging adults and entertaining kids is no small achievement.

You could spend weeks admiring the details in the film's natural landscapes, from the lush tropics of Horton's jungle home to the mayor's cramped living quarters.

I'm probably being overly kind rating Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! as more than strictly average computer-animated kiddie fare.

Someday, if we’re all good little boys and girls, the world will hand us a Dr. Seuss film half as wonderful as one of the books.

I haven't read Horton Hears a Who! in a long time, so forgive me if I don't recall the original Dr. Seuss story containing references to MySpace and Pokemon.

The movie is certain to delight children, and most parents should be at least pleased if not enraptured.

The film isn't as funny as its all-star cast would indicate. The story is crammed with excessive noise, subplots and characters that don't have that Seussian magic.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell are together again in Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! and the results are both underwhelming and tone-deaf.

To bump the movie up to its 88-minute running time, a fair amount of padding was necessary. Necessary for length, mind you, not for a good story.

Jim Carrey's general tendency toward comic mania is gently toned down, allowing the rubbery elephant to seem more a lovable goofball than a frenzied nut-job.

It might not be the most groundbreaking animated movie in recent years, but the bright and bighearted new adaptation of the 1954 Dr. Seuss classic Horton Hears a Who! certainly hits its target.

It lacks energy and danger and is too eager to please, including a pointless Japanimation segment that you won't believe.

When you make an 86-minute feature out of 10-minute story, how do you fill in the gaps?

The perfectly wrought, deliciously whimsical books of Theodor Geisel were never meant to be blown up into big movies, a process that buries their modest pleasures beneath heaps of hype.

There simply isn't enough story for 80 minutes' worth of movie. And the people trying to fill the time aren't Dr. Seuss.

Horton Hears a Who! is full of playful animation and energy and pretty pictures, but it has an overall air of menace that's very hard to take.

Faint praise is all this CGI animation deserves -- its fidelity to Seuss’ dignity-for-all allegory is admirable, but the execution is negligible.