Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (also known as
The Lorax) is a 2012 American
computer-animated 3-D musical comedy film based on
Dr. Seuss'
children's book of the same name. It was produced by
Illumination Entertainment and was released by
Universal Pictures on March 2, 2012, what would have been the 108th birthday of Seuss, who
died at age 87 in the year 1991.
The film is the fourth feature film based on a book by Dr. Seuss, the second Dr. Seuss adaptation fully computer-animated after
Horton Hears a Who!, and the first to be released in 3-D.
The Lorax was Illumination Entertainment's first film presented in
IMAX 3D (known as "IMAX Tree-D" in publicity for the film).
[3] It was also the third Dr. Seuss feature film released by Universal, after
How the Grinch Stole Christmas and
The Cat in the Hat.
The film was directed by
Chris Renaud, and co-directed by Kyle Balda. It was written by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, the duo who also wrote the script for
Blue Sky's
Horton Hears a Who!. Audrey Geisel, Seuss's wife, was executive producer, and
Chris Meledandri, who managed
Horton Hears a Who! at Fox Animation, produced the film.
[7] The film was fully fabricated in the French studio "Illumination Mac Guff", which was the animation department of
Mac Guff which has been acquired by Illumination Entertainment in Summer 2011.
[8] The Lorax received a PG rating "for brief mild language."It is the third PG-rated Dr. Seuss film, following
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I like the review, though. In the future my opinion of the film might change. But as it stands now, it was just hard to really get behind this one.