Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 2, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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13
Mixed:
11
Negative:
6
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38
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 1, 2012
A cautionary environmental tale with a thin veneer of entertainment on top. With its cotton-candy-colored palette of orange, pink and purple truffula trees, it looks like a bowl of fuzzy Froot Loops. But it goes down like an order of oatmeal. Sure, it's good for you. It's just not terribly good. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangFeb 29, 2012
The key to Seuss' tales, as with all good fables, is not only their cleverness but their surpassing elegance and simplicity, qualities that this busy, over-cluttered contraption of a movie seems entirely uninterested in replicating. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 2, 2012
Yikes! Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda direct strictly for short-attention spans on a fruit-loopy palette that made me want to puke. Had Dr. Seuss lived (he died in 1991), I'm confident he would have puked as well. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithMar 1, 2012
The Lorax is awful, like chronic disease. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 3, 2012
Dr. Seuss's The Lorax [sic] isn't Seussian in spirit. It's shrill and campy and stuffed with superfluous characters. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 1, 2012
The movie is a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension. Read full review
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