Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

       Care for the future generation? Dr. Seuss' The Lorax...indeed a movie to watch. An inspiring and motivating movie not only for children but most of all for adults as well. This film will not only inspire and entertain movie goers but most of all will ignite imagination and idealism. It will make us realize how valuable mother earth most especially the forests, its benefits in connection with our own lives.. 

        Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is a 2012 American computer-animated 3D musical fantasy comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and based on Dr Seuss' children's book of the same name. The movie is Directed by Chris Renaud, and Kyle Balda as co-director. The cast includes Zac Efron as Ted, Danny DeVito as the Lorax, and Ed Helms as the Once-ler. New characters introduced in the film are Audrey, who is voiced by Taylor Swift, Aloysius O'Hare, voiced by Rob Riggle, and Grammy Norma, voiced by Betty White.

      Ted Wiggins is an idealistic 12-year-old boy, who lives in "Thneedville," a walled city in which everything is artificial and made of plastic, metal, or synthetics.  When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler, he discovers that the outside world is contaminated and a wasteland.  Over Ted's various visits, the Once-ler recounts the story of how he departed his family to make his fortune. He met the guardian of the forest, the Lorax, after cutting down a Truffula Tree. The Lorax urges Once-ler to leave the forest, but he refuses.  Later, the Once-ler promises not to chop another tree down, and the two seem to begin their friendship. Then, the young businessman's Thneed invention becomes a major success and Once-ler's family arrives to participate in the business. At first keeping his promise, the Once-ler continues Thneed production by harvesting the Truffula Tree tufts in a slow, but sustainable manner.  Sooner, Once-ler became greedy and continued chopping off tree. Over time, the Once-ler's deforestation spirals into a mass overproduction. Lorax's helpless protests did not stop him.   The Once-ler pollutes the sky, river, and landscape, until the last Truffula Tree falls.   This resulted to the downfall of Once-ler.   The Lorax sends the animals off to find a new place to live before he departs into the sky, leaving only a stone-cut word: "Unless". Distraught and ruined, the Once-ler became a recluse.   After he finishes telling his story, the Once-ler finally understands the meaning behind the Lorax's last message, and gives Ted the last Truffula seed in hopes that he can plant it and make others care about real trees once more.  Ted's desire to impress Audrey is now a personal mission to remind his town of the importance of nature. Meanwhile, O'Hare, determined not to have trees undercut his business, takes heavy-handed steps such as covering Audrey's nature paintings, closing off the door that Ted uses to see the Once-ler, and forcibly searching Ted's room for the seed.  Ted enlists his family and Audrey to help plant the seed, which has begun to germinate after coming into contact with water.  When Ted finally attempts to plant the seed, he is interrupted by O'Hare, who rallies the population to stop them.  To convince them of his mission, Ted takes an earth mover and rams down a section of the city wall to reveal the environmental destruction outside.  Horrified at the sight and inspired by Ted's conviction, the crowd defies O'Hare, with his own henchmen expelling him from the town. The seed is finally planted, and Audrey kisses Ted on the cheek.  Time passes and the land starts to recover; new trees sprout, the animals begin to return, and the redeemed Once-ler is happily reunited with the Lorax who has also returned.

           Ted eagerly returns to Thneedville to show Audrey, but is accosted by O'Hare and two of his minions. With the help of his family, Ted, Audrey, and his Grandmother head to the center of town to plant the seed. O'Hare gives chase, but his attempts to claim the seed fail. Confronting the three in the center of town, O'Hare tries to convince the townspeople they are better off without trees, citing them to be unclean, and an intrusion on their perfect world.  To counter this, Ted, Audrey, and his Grandmother climb aboard an Earth mover, and knock down part of the city's wall, revealing the wasteland outside.  The song "How Bad Can I be" is about the Once-ler's business getting more bigger, so he builds a Thneed factory to help him speed up the process of making Thneeds.   The factory pollutes the skies, making it hard for the Swomee swans to fly.  It dumps slop into the water, making the Humming Fish dirty and hard to swim.   He also cuts down all of the trees, making the Bar-ba-loots hungry.   His acts cause harm to all of the Truffula Valley, and the creatures living there.  The song "Let It Grow" is about Ted’s goal to simply plant the seed, and show to people that a simple Tree is very important. 

I recommend that  both kids and adult should watch this movie. I like this movie because it is all about our nature, especially it talks about the "trees". The movie is very interesting because it teaches us of how to take good care of the trees and we people cannot live by a simply artificial products around us and we need oxygen from the trees.