For many viewers, this is the Dr. Seuss story that has aged the best, and for a good reason, with an evergreen (how ironic) message.
But good messages aside, the short has enough artistic merit to be considered one of the best Dr. Seuss adaptations, along with The Grinch adaptation by Chuck Jones. All the expansions the story receives here were for the best, adding pathos and feeling quite organic to the source material.
I don't even hate the 2012 film made by Illumination, but yeah, I do agree the story gets lost among the typical modern artificiality.
This by contrast is very sentimental, much less bigger in scale, but also far more genuine.
But good messages aside, the short has enough artistic merit to be considered one of the best Dr. Seuss adaptations, along with The Grinch adaptation by Chuck Jones. All the expansions the story receives here were for the best, adding pathos and feeling quite organic to the source material.
I don't even hate the 2012 film made by Illumination, but yeah, I do agree the story gets lost among the typical modern artificiality.
This by contrast is very sentimental, much less bigger in scale, but also far more genuine.