The Lorax

So once again the movie studios have gone to Dr Suess,
This time it’s the Lorax the movie producers have let loose

The Lorax is done by the same people who made Despicable Me
Sure it’s well done, but impossible not to compare to Wall-E

The latter a much better telling of environmental conservatism
The movie is still good re-telling worth all this rhyming romanticism

Our hero is a little orange thing that speaks for the trees
Today it’s impossible not to call him a tree huggin hippie

Danny Devito voices the Lorax as he was the obvious choice
But don’t worry he’s not Frank Reynolds, Devito gives him his own distinct voice

Ed Helms plays the greedy Once-ler stealing all the Truffula Trees,
The directors show him as young man, growing into his greedy personality

But how would you know they needed to give the story a face lift
So they brought in young actors namely Zac Efron and Taylor Swift

They are two younger kids trapped in a different frame story
They needed to pad the film to make it about an hour forty

The new story features a plastic world without any trees
Rob Riggle as the villain and to breath clean air he charges a fee

I guess the execs were worried there just wasn’t enough excitement in the original motion pic
So they added car chases and dance numbers to appeal to a younger demographic

But it’s the original story that has all the movies heart
And who knows maybe you’ll walk away wanting to do your part

There are some people, who hate the Lorax like the anchors on Fox,
They cry indoctrination, it’s just Hollywood on a soapbox

If there’s a problem with the film its all the cross promotion they air
But the problem is much better shared by one Mr. Stephen T. Colbert

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Overall I liked it; I felt like a kid and left the theater with a smile
It’s better than other movies done earlier this year by at least a mile B-