[cuban leaf]

I heard the reviewer on NPR this morning. Even he hated it.

[cuban leaf]

I heard the reviewer on NPR this morning. Even he hated it.

BTW, if you want to save the trees, produce more CO2. They love the stuff!

[Pharmboy]

Ping...in case you missed a review of this crap

[cripplecreek]

Even in its original form the Lorax was an environmentalist story.

[DemforBush]

I figured it would be following in the footsteps of the original Lorax (i.e. the Dr. Seuss animated tv special/book from the 1970s). The fact that it’s being released in a movie “dump season” (i.e. Jan/Feb and thereabouts) rather than in the summer also said a whole lot about the prospects for the film.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

A review in Seuss-ian rhyme:

http://decentfilms.com/reviews/lorax

[Last Dakotan]

"Pharmboy, this movie must really be awful..."

You really call yourself that in private?

[autumnraine]

Georgia Dept of Agriculture is giving away tree seeds to every movie goer of this movie.

[Little Ray]

If you ever read Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” book, you’d already know that.
I read The Lorax to my kids when they were little. ONCE. Then it got tossed. Not in the “trade” box but in the garbage, where it belonged.

[bolobaby]

Wait... wha? Hollywood produced a film with an ultra-liberal message? Where am I? Bizarro World?

[The Great RJ]

The Hollywood version has likely been twisted to fit the socialist mindset of the left coast. However, I have used the cartoon version in my economics class to illustrate the danger of over using free resources and the Tragedy of the Commons. The whole problem started when the main character, the Oncler, found and utilized the trufulla trees without having either ownership of the resource or having to pay for their use. The Oncler thus had no economic incentive to conserve, preserve or replant this resource and simply exploited it until it was gone.

The use of a free resource until it is no longer available is often referred to as the Tragedy of the Commons...where the unowned common grazing land in small villages could be over grazed and thus useless to anyone. A more modern illustration would be the provision of free taxpayer funded wi-fi system in a city. The system would quickly become over utilized to the point of being unusable

[Sir Napsalot]

But.... you know the indoctrinated generational yutes are just going to love this stuff.

Not to mention the public schools and teachers union will make sure it is a ‘must-see’ at schools for their kids.

[wbill]

There’s a reason why it’s being released in March instead of May or December.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

They are promoting planting 3 million trees, just what every allergy/asthma suferer needs. Ah-chooooo!

[red-dawg]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It takes a beating in the LA Times of all places!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-lorax-20120302,0,5193528.story