2012 · animation · family · music
The Lorax
Directed by Chris Renaud1h 26m2012
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Our read: The Lorax (2012) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · family · music entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How The Lorax feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want bright musical eco-fable energy that kids can sing along to easily.”
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