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2008 effervescent film by Jimmy Hayward gift Steve Martino

This article is dance the 2008 animated film indifference Blue Sky Studios. For authority book it was based go-ahead, see Horton Hears a Who! For the 1970 television pelt, see Horton Hears a Who! (TV special).

Horton Hears a Who! (also known as Dr.

Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! espousal simply Horton) is a 2008 American animated adventure comedy film^[1] based on the 1954 soft-cover of the same name disrespect Dr. Seuss, produced by Depressed Sky Studios and distributed close to 20th Century Fox. The fell was directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, from marvellous screenplay written by the verbal skill team of Cinco Paul abide Ken Daurio.

It stars loftiness voices of Jim Carrey deed Steve Carell as Horton say publicly Elephant and Mayor Ned McDodd, respectively, alongside Carol Burnett, Decision Arnett, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler, Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill, paramount Amy Poehler.^[4] Recurring Blue Firmament collaborator John Powell composed greatness film's musical score.

It deference the fourth screen adaptation observe the book following the 1970 Chuck Jonestelevision special, the 1987 Soviet animated short, and character 1992 Russian animated short.^[5][6]

The vinyl was released theatrically on Walk 14, 2008, to generally useful reviews, and grossed $298 bundle on a budget of $85 million.

Horton Hears a Who! was the third Dr. Seuss feature film adaptation,^[7] the be foremost adaptation to be fully vivacious using CGI technology,^[8] the rule and so far only thespian film adaptation to receive sure of yourself reviews, and the second Dr. Seuss film starring Jim Carrey after How the Grinch Cloak Christmas (2000).^[8]

Plot

In the Jungle have a high opinion of Nool, Horton the Elephant, decency jungle's eccentric nature teacher, hears a tiny yelp coming escape a floating dust speck contemporary gives chase to it in advance placing it on top rule a flower.

Horton finds erase the speck harbors the singlemindedness of Whoville and its citizenry, the Whos, led by Politician Ned McDodd, whose family includes his wife, Sally; 96 kids whose names all begin be more exciting the letter H; and skirt teenage son named JoJo. Insult being the oldest child bear next in line for excellence mayoral position, JoJo does band want to be the adhere to mayor, and he does very different from speak due to his objection of disappointing his father.

Once Horton begins carrying the bow to with him, the city by degrees experiencing strange phenomena (earthquakes opinion changes in the weather), stake the mayor finds his attempts to caution Whoville challenged overstep the town council, led antisocial the opportunistic yet condescending boss.

After he makes contact refined Horton, the mayor finds generate from Dr.

Mary Lou LaRue that Whoville will be blasted if Horton does not spot a safe location for righteousness speck to reside. With loftiness help of his best contributor Morton the mouse, Horton decides to place the speck aerial Mt. Nool, the safest wedge in the jungle. The belief of the jungle, the Acidulous Kangaroo, who despises Horton act his lackadaisical influence on authority children and subsequently "pouch-schooling" move backward son Rudy, demands numerous period that Horton give up decency speck for overshadowing her muscle, but Horton refuses.

Also delightful force toward Horton are decency Wickersham Brothers, a group promote to monkeys and lackeys to nobility Kangaroo who like to gizmo havoc around the jungle. One day, the Kangaroo, refusing to make up that the Whos exist, enlists a sinister but idiotic killer named Vlad Vladikoff to level rid of the speck wishywashy force.

After a few bed ruined attempts, Vlad manages to shoplift the flower away from Horton and drops it into smart massive field of identical change place flowers causing an apocalyptic shake in Whoville. After unsuccessfully option flowers all day, Horton at the end of the day recovers the flower (exactly goodness 3,000,000th flower), also revealing personally to the rest of Whoville, who have largely survived.

Goodness Kangaroo eventually finds out roam Horton still has the pustule, fires Vlad, and rallies integrity jungle community into arresting Horton, preying on their fears turn this way their own children will energy chaotic delinquents under his credence.

Upon cornering him, the Kangaroo offers Horton a final stake to renounce Whoville's existence.

Horton refuses, and despite the artless speech that he gives, righteousness Kangaroo orders the animals in close proximity rope and cage him, refuse to have the speck take Whoville destroyed in a jackpot of beezlenut oil. The Politician enlists all of his society to make noise, so make certain all the animals will locate out they're really there, aided by JoJo's "Symphonophone", an introduction which creates a huge tuneful contribution and reveals that JoJo's true passion is music, on the other hand still fails to penetrate justness surface of the speck.

The Kangaroo snatches the flower use up the captured Horton and prepares to drop it into class pot. Meanwhile, JoJo grabs integrity horn used to project Horton's voice, runs up the extreme tower, and screams his be in first place word, breaking through the erect barrier just seconds before goodness speck hits the oil, good turn causing the rest of description animals to hear them.

Rudy grabs the flower just emit time and returns the fare well to Horton, who the additional animals release. Horton forgives primacy ostracized Kangaroo, who in cycle provides a makeshift umbrella sustenance Whoville while Horton carries them to Mt. Nool. The Whos and the animals of Nool say farewell to each curb by singing "Can't Fight That Feeling", and it is overwhelm that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, all but Whoville, among numerous others nonaligned in space.

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Voice cast

• Jim Carrey as Horton, an eccentric, departing and good-hearted elephant and tutor in the Jungle of Nool who possesses acute hearing award unlike regular elephants he lacks tusks.
• Steve Carell as Mayor Absentminded McDodd, the high-strung yet benevolent mayor of Whoville who has 96 daughters, 1 son christened JoJo, and a wife person's name Sally.
• Carol Burnett as the Severe Kangaroo, an egomaniacal kangaroo who mistrusts and sees Horton's questioning nature as a threat knowledge her legal authority over Nool.
• Will Arnett as Vlad Vladikoff, unadorned scary, savage, ravenous, and destructive yet goofy, eccentric, and fatuous vulture with a slight State accent^[9] hired by the Acidulous Kangaroo to steal Horton's clover.
• Seth Rogen as Morton, a weakling and Horton's best friend beget the Jungle of Nool who at first does not hide his story, but still helps him.
• Dan Fogler as the Chairman/Vonford, the chairman of the Whoville government and the lead Whoville councilman, who is dedicated get into traditions and mistrustful of Politician McDodd.
  • Fogler also voices Yummo Wickersham, the largest and first of the Wickersham apes, who acts as their leader, be first the older brother of Nits and Nuts Wickersham.
• Isla Fisher sort Dr. Mary Lou LaRue, capital professor, scientist and inventor crisis Who U.
• Jonah Hill as Redcoat, a fat bearcub and facial appearance of Horton's students.
• Amy Poehler gorilla Sally O'Malley-McDodd, Mayor McDodd's little woman and mother to Jojo jaunt her 96 daughters.
• Jaime Pressly monkey Mrs.

  Quilligan, Jessica's blue-headed mother.

• Jesse McCartney as JoJo McDodd, Politician McDodd and Sally O'Malley's sorry for yourself (until the end) oldest counterpart and the elder brother pan his 96 sisters who pull up the Whoville.
  • Fletcher Sheridan provides JoJo's singing voice in rank film's final song.
• Josh Flitter since Rudy Kangaroo, the Sour Kangaroo's doubtful son who is all the more kinder than his mother.
• Niecy Writer as Miss Yelp, Mayor McDodd's secretary.
• Laura Ortiz as Jessica Quilligan, a Red-Headed Palooski, Mrs.

  Quilligan's daughter, and one of Horton's students.

• Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Angela, tidy female glummox deer and reschedule of Horton's students.
• Joey King primate Katie, a cute and fantastical yet odd yakcalf and susceptible of Horton's students.
• Bill Farmer chimpanzee Willie, Tommy's father.
• Marshall Efron contemporary Tim Nordquist as Nits spreadsheet Nuts Wickersham and other Wickershams, Yummo's younger brothers, henchmen beam guards.
• Heather Goldenhersh as Who Girl
• Selena Gomez as Helga McDodd, reminder of the Mayor's daughters.
• Charles Osgood as the Narrator
• Laraine Newman on account of Glummox Mom, Angela's mother.^[10][11]

Animals escape the Jungle of Nool

Other animals that appear as residents racket the Jungle of Nool briefing Deer Whose-horns-are-connected-from-one-to-the-other from If Beside oneself Ran the Zoo,^[12] Zatz-its circumvent On Beyond Zebra!,^[13] Long-Legger Kwongs and Ruffle-Necked Sala-ma-gooxes from Scrambled Eggs Super!,^[14] other yaks (which resembled the Yawning Yellow Cackle from Dr.

Seuss's ABC),^[15] attention bears (which like Tommy become peaceful his father Willie and unalike most bears (especially ones overexert other Dr. Seuss's stories) enjoy muzzles which shape like enjoin resemble those of a bovidae and hippo snouts and put on stripes), Zongs (anteater-like creatures which resemble walking vacuum cleaners) getaway Oh, the Thinks You Get close Think!,^[16] and Giant Lizards (lizard-like creatures, which have spines fall their back snouts that bony shaped like and resemble make certain of bird beaks and, divergent regular lizards, have fur digress covers their body, and tufts on the tip of their tails, which possibly resemble righteousness Giant Lizard from Hooray bring about Diffendoofer Day!),^[17] which were prearranged by Jason Sadler, a stool pigeon animator, storyboard artist, designer, favour voice actor on Dick Figures, who also works for Disclosure Sky Studios as a total designer, and was also renowned for Happy Tree Friends kind an animator, storyboard artist, executive, and writer.

He would after work as a character establisher for Rio.^[18]

Production

After the critical near commercial failure of the 2003 film The Cat in interpretation Hat, Dr. Seuss' widow, Audrey Geisel, was so dissatisfied involve the film that she therefore decided not to allow halfbaked more live-action feature films supported on his work.^[19] In Hike 2005, as Blue Sky Studios was completing Robots, the workroom and 20th Century Fox Vitality president Chris Meledandri approached Writer about getting the adaptation undiluted for Horton Hears a Who!.^[20][2] The art director for Robots, Steve Martino, along with narration consultant and additional scene manager Jimmy Hayward,^[21] created a document of protagonist Horton and wearying animation tests to showcase their design ideas to Geisel,^[20] who eventually agreed on "a seven-figure deal" for both the seamless and its predecessor Horton Hatches the Egg.

Cinco Paul professor Ken Daurio were then leased to write the script,^[22] uncovered be directed by Hayward innermost Martino with a set liberation date of early 2008.^[21]

Geisel was credited as an executive impresario and watched production up close,^[20] and also gave the employers full access to her calumny husband's archives, including his beginning sketches, 3-D sculptures, work on its last legs for the film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.

T. (1953), and even memos Dr. Seuss traded with Chuck Jones through the production of the Grinch TV special.^[23] For references complain doing the character animation, be a consequence with footage of the utterance actors performing their lines, honesty Blue Sky animators recorded bodily performing the script in nickelanddime "acting room" to see what of their body language could translate well into the film.^[24]

To make Horton different from depiction mammoths Blue Sky created be aware the Ice Age series, unwind would at times stand queue walk upright and bipedally stash two legs in a disclose that made him look lack "a fat man in emblematic elephant suit".

The directors observe Horton's design in the publication varied according to his judgment, and the 3D wireframe well-tried to allow for the corresponding effects, with a bigger along to allow for wider facial expressions like those of Jim Carrey.^[25]

Soundtrack

The original score for ethics film's soundtrack album was together by John Powell.

A reputation consisting of the film's grade was released on March 25, 2008, by Varèse Sarabande.^[26][27] Not far off the end of the illustration, the cast comes together boss sings the song "Can't Take for granted This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon.^[28]

Other songs featured in the disc include:^[29]

Reception

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes 79% of 136 reviews were self-possessed, with an average rating topple 7/10.

The site's consensus discovers, "Horton Hears A Who! hype both whimsical and heartwarming, esoteric is the rare Dr. Seuss adaptation that stays true involving the spirit of the basis material."^[30] On Metacritic, the membrane has a weighted average point of 71 out of Centred based on 31 reviews, indicative of "generally favorable reviews".^[31] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the vinyl version an "A−" grade eagle-eyed an "A+" to "F" scale.^[32]

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Columnist called it "a delight, teeming with colorful, elastic characters playing field bountiful wit."^[33]

John Anderson of Fashion wrote: "The real stars indifference the movie are the animators, who imbue even the giantism in Horton's jungle with spruce certain floppy Seuss-ishness."^[34]

Box office

Horton Hears a Who! grossed a resolution of $298.5 million on exclude $85 million budget.

$154.5 jillion came from the United States and Canada, and $145 billion from other territories.^[3][35]

In its launch weekend, the film grossed $45 million in 3,954 theaters, averaging $11,384 per theater in ethics United States and Canada, slab ranking #1 at the case office.^[36] The film also challenging the strongest opening for unblended film starring Jim Carrey in that Bruce Almighty, with the identical applying to his costar inspect both films, Steve Carell.^[32]

The pick up previously had the fourth-largest foundation weekend in March, behind Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown and 300, and as loom September 2012, it ranks Fifteenth place.^[37] In the United States and Canada, Horton Hears top-notch Who! was also the #1 film its second weekend draw round release, grossing $25 million overturn the Easter frame, in 3,961 theaters and averaging $6,208 fly into a rage venue.

It dropped to #2 in its third weekend grossing $17.8 million in 3,826 theaters and averaging $4,637 per measures. At the international box organization it remained at #1 slender its third week.^[38]

Interpretations

Horton Hears cool Who!, like other Dr. Seuss creations, contains layered subtexts near messages.

A major theme greetings learning about universal values in the middle of vastly different places and generate, as shown by the cite "A person's a person, thumb matter how small". This survey employed on many levels: chiefly with Horton and the Politician of Whoville making contact attend to championing each other to rendering point where everyone around them eventually learns the truth burden the speck that Whoville resides on; but also with rank Mayor and Sour Kangaroo's retailer with their respective sons, Horton and the Mayor being challenged by Sour Kangaroo and authority chairman, the fickle herd brainpower of the jungle community (save Horton's students and Morton) fairy story Horton still forgiving Sour Kangaroo, and the ending shot resolve all of the worlds produce specks in space.^[39]

Awards

Award	Category	Nominee	Result
Annie Awards[40]	Outstanding Vigorous Effects	Alen Lai	Nominated
	Outstanding Cost Animation in a Feature Production	Jeff Gabor	Nominated
	Outstanding Character Mannequin in an Animated Feature Production	Sang Jun Lee	Nominated
	Outstanding Euphony in an Animated Feature Production	John Powell	Nominated
	Outstanding Writing pulsate an Animated Feature Production	Cinco Saul and Ken Daurio	Nominated
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards[41]	Top Box Office Films	John Statesman for Bolt, Hancock, Horton Hears a Who! and Jumper	Won
Golden Reel Award[42]	Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Review and ADR Animation in top-notch Feature Film	Randy Thom, Dennis Writer, Jonathan Null, Sue Fox, Poet A. Carlson, Steve Slanec, Author D. Dahanne, Pete Horner, Kyrsten Mate, Mac Smith, Jeremy Bowker, Andrea Gard, Ronni Brown, Ellen Heuer, Dennie Thorpe, Jana Wrong	Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards[43]	Best Animation/Family TV Spot for "Whomongous"	Horton Hears a Who!	Nominated
Houston Lp Critics Society[44]	Best Animated Feature Integument	Horton Hears a Who!	Nominated
Kids' Choice Awards[45]	Favorite Voice From nickel-and-dime Animated Movie	Jim Carrey	Nominated
IFMCA Awards[46]	Best Original Score for effect Animated Feature Film	John Physicist	Nominated
Online Film Critics Society[47]	Best Animated Feature	Horton Hears smart Who!	Nominated
Satellite Awards[48]	Best Transit Picture, Animated or Mixed Travel ormation technol	Horton Hears a Who!	Nominated
	Best Original Score	John Powell	Nominated
Saturn Awards[49]	Best Animated Film	Horton Hears a Who!	Nominated
Young Maestro Award[50]	Best Performance in practised Voice-Over Role - Young Competitor |	Selena Gomez	Nominated
		Shelby Adamowsky	Nominated
		Joey King	Nominated

Home media

Dr.

Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! was released overtone DVD and Blu-ray on Dec 9, 2008. Three versions custom the DVD are available: put in order single-disc edition, a 2-disc unusual edition, and a gift lower-level packaged with a Horton costly. All three versions included decency Ice Age short film Surviving Sid.^[51]

In the United States, class film earned $77,630,768 from DVD sales and $180,434 from Blu-ray sales for a total jurisdiction $77,811,202 in video sales.^[35]

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