The Lorax

This expanded, 3D version of The Lorax opens, after a brief intro from the stump-sized creature himself (voiced by Danny DeVito), with a gigantic musical number that announces the story's intentions as something aggressively different than Seuss laid out in his book and also as something true to its spirit. The environment is post-destroyed here, and an all-plastic world has sprung up in its place. This time around, though, the profit comes from the sale of clean air in an endless cycle of ruin and commerce. There's even a big song about corporate greed to make sure you don't mistake the job-creators for good guys.
When a young boy named Ted (Zac Efron) learns that he can restore the planet with the last remaining tree seed, the opposition is loudly fact-challenged (resorting to calling photosynthesis a lie) and, when that doesn't work, plain old menacing.
Which all means that conservative pundit Lou Dobbs is correct, this movie is trying to hook kids on environmentalism. And more power to it. It's frankly refreshing to see an animated family film take a clear side on an issue that affects every living creature on the planet instead of conceding that both sides have equivalent points to make. Call it An Inconvenient Truth for children, intelligently and entertainingly executed, firmly committed to science, reality and the common good. And best of all, nobody's making you take your children to see it if you happen to disagree with its stance. Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 is now available on DVD, after all. The little ones will love that.
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