To Adapt A Seuss: The Good, The Bad, and The Loose

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Fun fact: when jim carrey grinch pulled the sheet out from under the stuff on the table, it was all supposed to come off but he accidentally did the magic trick so he improvised and just knocked all the stuff of hinself.

Fun Fact: For How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) ,The Whoville set was built mostly on the backlot of Universal Studios behind the Bates Motel. During a break in filming, Jim Carrey surprised and scared tourists on the Universal Backlot Tour by running out of the hotel wearing a dress and brandishing a knife.

Illumination: “We decided to not make the Onceler a bad guy because one-dimensional evil characters don’t exist in real life.” Also Illumination: Creates O’Hare, a one-dimensional evil antagonist for the same film.

I personally don't think giving the Onceler a face is a bad thing. I think they could have done something really powerful with it, and show him becoming more and more Faceless as the movie goes on. In theory, "Biggering" would be the track that plays right before we never actually see his face on screen again, until maybe right at the end. Obviously, they took a great idea like that out back with a shotgun and got rid of it, but still.

i think the worst part of the grinch from illumination is that they did a better job making the grinch when it was gru, he tormented and attacked strangers for fun but still interacted with the world because he needed basic things like coffee and bank loans.

The fact that the longest segment of this video was about the Lorax, a good chunk of it relating to the Onceler, and not a single joke about the Onceler fandom was ever brought up surprises me more than anything.

Someone else has probably already mentioned this, but the most wild part of the Jim Carrey Grinch smile is that IT ISN'T THE MAKEUP. HIS FACE ACTUALLY MAKES THAT SHAPE. There's video out there of him doing it with no makeup and it's like he's made of rubber.

I love how Max's character in the jim carrey iteration of the grinch was very much the grinch's moral compass. In moments where he would attempt to be apathetic or heartless, max would steer him in the right direction to doing the right thing instead. Like when cindy lou fell in the sorting machine and almost got seriously hurt, he was going to leave her but then max intervened to change the grinch's mind. Max's character despite not being able to talk was great.

Finally a reviewer who doesn't hate the Jim Carrey Grinch

There’s an alternate universe where The Lorax is a rock opera and this film becomes Illumination’s magnum opus.

The Jim Carrey Grinch movie deserves so much praise. I grew up with this film and im so thankful I did. Its been a required part of the christmas season to this day.

honestly, blue sky deserves more credit. the charlie brown adaptation is a fantastic adaptation of the art style, and I remember really liking Horton Hears a Who as a kid. Certainly better than illumination recently...

An additional point with how insulting the Illumination Lorax was the massive marketing push. It is kind of sickening honestly how that character was plastered on car ads, Ihop etc. It feels like some kind of nightmare joke where the fucking lorax is used to push an air polluting car.

My problem with the Lorax? The demo song “biggering” shows what that movie COULD have been. It could have been amazing and clearly was going to take itself very seriously. Only for the studio to shut that down in order to appeal to kids even though that goes against everything doctor Seuss stood for

The original lorax story actually scared me as a kid. That final word "unless" completely surrounded by the dead world the onceler created was just such a foreboding image to me, and even at like 6 years old the story hit hard, only to give the message to future generations and inspire hope! During the illumination film... I felt nothing. I actually feel the illumination film's existence almost represents a media version of the soulless corporate takeover the film tried to portray better than the movie itself did.

Carreys “The Grinch” was, in one word, iconic. Truly. Visually, the set and costumes fit the books far better in my opinion, while making great additions for story’s sake. And Jim Carrey for my was the first time I was introduced as a kid to his work. For me, he IS the grinch. So much so that I cant see him as anyone else in his other movie roles. Jim Carrey truly transcended the Grinch and solidified his spot in modern pop culture. ALL of the CGI movies are flops for me. It’s too angsty teen for me, and I personally just don’t like how the 2d art translates… Horton Hears A Who however was fine, but I dint like implementing pop songs randomly for no reason

One more big problem with Illumination's Lorax film is the speed at which the trees regrow. One of the points the original animation makes is that the Truffula trees take a long time to grow to maturity, which means simply re-planting as you cut down doesn't necessarily work, it takes too long to be profitable. But in the feature film, they grow pretty much instantly, which begs the question why the Once-ler didn't just....start re-planting them? This has always bothered me.

Hey major part of Horton Hears a Who you forgot about was the main message “A person’s a person, no matter how small” and the fact that Jane ends up learning this lesson via the fact that she actually LISTENS TO HER SON. Like throughout the rest of the movie she barely even cares what he has to say and instead just dismisses him as “Just a kid misunderstanding the adults” when he is able to understand everything that’s happening around him and has formed his own opinions on it. And when Rudy actually stands up to her she listens to him for the first time. Just figured I should mention that.

If I had a nickel for every time Illumination missed the point of an antagonist-centered Dr. Seuss story, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to make a theatrical film around Yertle the Turtle (you know, the story that's based on the rise of Hitler) and twisted it around to make him the victim who was bullied by the other turtles for being small and that him conquering them was him standing up for himself or something.