This 2012 animated fantasy misses the point of the widely acclaimed children’s story and buries its source material inside an anodyne and furiously vacillated framework. It is not simply poor quality entertainment; it is bad for your kids to watch it.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 9, 2024

It's hard to imagine children not enjoying the film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

In the hierarchy of good-to-great kid movies, this would rank somewhere straight down the middle. It's a safe and easy kind of entertainment, and that's about it.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 3, 2020

For what little goes right, there's so much going wrong. Many preachy montages, and the odd cheesy song.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2020

The man otherwise known as Dr. Seuss has been injured by Hollywood.

| Original Score: F | Apr 26, 2019

A storybook come to life. It works really well thanks to the keen visual eyes of Renaud and Balda.

| Apr 12, 2019

Its execution lacks a great deal of finesse and too often opts for methods that cheapen the overall didactic in favour of Hollywood thrills and spills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

While director Chris Renaud's experienced animation-orientated eye may account for some of its successes, the final product ends up being detrimental to a beloved story, and is at best only intermittently engaging.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2018

The animation is absolutely eye-popping with super bright neon colors.

| Sep 18, 2017

Fortunately, there were lots of kids at the screening. You gotta watch 'em. They were giggling, singing along, bouncing, and happily kicking the reviewer's seat. Bingo.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2016

It's heart is in the right place, but the execution isn't quite what it needs to be to excel.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2013

The flat, non-rhyming dialogue and mainly dull new characters don't feel particularly Seussian. But thankfully, the animation does.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2012

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is an entertaining and cautionary tale that stays true to the spirit of the good doctor.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 18, 2012

Three minutes of substance, 91 minutes of shrill filler.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 25, 2012

A delightful animated feature with special appeal for tree lovers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 15, 2012

Illumination Entertainment has dispensed with almost all of Dr Seuss' endearing dialogue, which is a shame, because the film could do with more of a personality of its own.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2012

A mostly harmless, cute and cuddly pop-infused babysitter for the ADD generation, but a wretched adaptation of Seuss' classic work.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 7, 2012

[Hollywood] simply doesn't see girls' and women's lives and needs as worthy of telling stories about... not even when one particular girl's desires are the obvious driver for the story being told.

| Jul 30, 2012

It's a didactic piece with too much prose, too many chases and not enough wit. Small children will probably like it, but they deserve better.

| Jul 30, 2012

The catchy songs, personable characters and heartfelt message mean this is still a sweet and enjoyable concoction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2012