A minor quibble with Horton Hears a Who
All the ads for the new movie Horton Hears a Who (which I’m looking forward too, never mind the Grinches over at Dave’s) has reminded me of a minor problem I have with Horton’s behavior in the original book.
.After the Wickersham brothers take the clover they give it to the black-bottomed eagle Vlad Vladikoff, who drops it in a field of clovers (of course I remember the whole book, I handle story time for a seven year old every night, so I’ve only read this book about once a week for the last five years). I’ve always felt that the story should have ended right there… at that point, what good does it do for Horton to search through three million flowers to find the one with the speck? If he’d just well enough alone the Whos would have remained hidden in that field for the rest of their short, tiny lives, never again to be threatened by killjoy kangaroos with beezlenut oil.
(Topic for another post: What the fuck is the kangaroo’s problem? Horton ain’t hurting nobody, but that jackass marsupial just can’t let it go. Is Dr. Seuss a libertarian? Cause everyone in the book but Horton and the Whos sure act like nanny statists engaged in a metaphor for the War on Drugs.)
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So, have you seen it yet?
Yes, and I liked it. I wasn’t awesome (like, say, Toy Story or The Incredibles) but it was good. Rotten Tomatoes agrees.