Dr Seuss The Lorax
SCORE: 82
I smirk when people tell me entertainment
teaches us nothing. There are so many examples of entertainment being
used to attempt to sway public opinion on a wide variety of topics. The
latest to come across my desk is Dr Seuss The Lorax on Blu-ray and DVD.
This movie is an environmentalists tofu dream.
We start Dr Seuss The Lorax in a perfect looking town. They are highly
technological, and have all forms of entertainment. Their biggest
business is O'Hares Air. They provide purified air to the population.
See the air has gotten too polluted. A young man by the name of Ted
wants to impress the girl so he goes on a quest to find a real tree.
He finds someone who knows what happens to all the trees. The man
responsible for chopping them all down in that little area. O'Hare
becomes Teds immediate nemesis. Why? Well why would anyone buy his air
if trees are planted and provide the citizens air for free? The Lorax
speaks for the trees as some mystical creature. He proclaims powers but
seems to be a real windbag in that department. His goal is to obviously
teach us.
All ages can find two things in Dr Seuss The Lorax to appreciate. The
first is the humor. There is a lot of humor in Dr Seuss The Lorax. There
are also some awesome songs in this movie. We already downloaded 'Let It
Grow' here at Family Friendly Gaming. Although we are a little sad that
whole: "let it die, let it die," portion from the movie was not included
in the song we downloaded on iTunes.
Tree huggers will love the main lesson in Dr Seuss The Lorax. We should
not ever use any of the resources in the forest to make products. Why
not? Because we will never know when to say when. Greed is definitely a
bad thing. I personally get sick of seeing the greed from Hollywood and
all of those profiting off of the Global Warming Scam.
I was raised in the Pacific Northwest where Weyerhaeuser is huge. They
cut down all kinds of trees up there. Want to know something else they
do? They plan all of these trees as well. I have personally driven
across America and seen hundreds of thousands of acres of forests. So
part of me finds the lesson in Dr Seuss The Lorax out of touch with our
reality. I see people being responsible about the environment all the
time.
My kids love Dr Seuss The Lorax, especially the bonus features. The mini
movies, games, Sing-Along, deleted scene, the making of the mini-movies,
and more will bring families back. The family unit is a little odd in Dr
Seuss The Lorax. We have a boy, a mother and a grandmother. There are no
father figures. I do like the fact that they spend time together as a
family.
There is one thing about Dr Seuss The Lorax that perplexes me. When the
forest is cut down all of the animals leave. They are gone for ten,
twenty, maybe even thirty years. So the went somewhere else and they
were able to live there. At the end of the movie they come back when the
forest is being planted again. Which felt odd to me since they had to
have been living somewhere all those decades.
One minor aspect of Dr Seuss The Lorax that I personally appreciate is
shunning the large cities. I was raised in the country, and love living
in harmony with nature. I despise large cities. So it is nice to see
that as one of the minor items in Dr Seuss The Lorax at the end of the
movie.
- Paul
Graphics: 86%
Sound: 79%
Replay/Extras: 90%
Gameplay: 77%
Family Friendly Factor: 79%
System: Blu-ray/DVD
Publisher: Universal Studios
Rating: ‘PG’ - Parental Guidance
Suggested
{Brief Mild Language}
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