On Tuesdays, Fandango updates their website with a full list of showtimes for the upcoming weekend. When I checked in on February 28th, it was confirmed. There's no need for me to go to the movies tonight.
The biggest release today will be The Lorax, based on the original book by Dr. Seuss. It is, after all, his birthday. When the book was released in 1971, it was quite a jolt to elementary school librarians across the nation. They were not yet inundated by books warning of an industrialized society. In 2012, however, I almost wonder if it will be a bit behind the times. In fact, I have a feeling the movie makers are thinking the same thing since the 72 page book has been stretched to an hour and a half film.
Mike Myers and Jim Carey made their own marks in The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch. Someone wised up and produced Horton Hears a Who in animated form. I wonder which books will be resurrected for future films? Perhaps Green Eggs and Ham will assume the platform of eating whatever you've been given because children in Africa are starving. Will Hop on Pop be a slapstick starring Robert De Niro as the grandpa who arrives at a deeper love for his grandchildren after they spend a weekend abusing him and his home?
Such is life. Perhaps I would be pleased to take the kids for a Saturday matinee if they were still preschoolers. And I'm sure I would enjoy watching their smiling faces as the orange glow of the Lorax reflected off their skin. For now, I'll just wait for other tv adaptations that will take us back to the good old days of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You know, when the well-loved words of Dr. Seuss were good enough for us.
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