In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity, a boy named Ted hopes to win the heart of his dream girl, Audrey. When he learns of her wish to see a real tree, Ted seeks out the Once-ler, a ruined old businessman outside of town in a stark wasteland. Upon hearing of how the hermit gave into his greed for profits and devastated the land over the protests of the Lorax, Ted is inspired to undo the disaster. However, the greedy Mayor of Thneed-Ville, Aloysius O’Hare, has made his fortune exploiting the environmental collapse and is determined to stop the boy from undermining his business.
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The original 1972 animation had a profound effect on myself as child and though I had been aware of this remake for some time, I usually avoid version 2.0 of any much loved film for obvious reasons, but after revisiting the original version (available elsewhere on Primewire), in a moment of madness I thought ‘well how bad can it be?’ - all I can say is it’s perfect for the snowflake generation:
Imagine a de-fanged, safe, corporate friendly, non-subversive version of the Dr Seuss classic and you have the 2012 remake - it is like a Twinkie, easy to digest,superficially tasty and easily accessible, but deep down you know it’s very wrong (and were links allowed there would be signpost right about here to at least watch the original as well as the remake).