Those who don't know Dr Seuss's story may like to know that Horton is an elephant who, bathing in the jungle, spies a tiny ball of dust floating through the air which he discovers houses an entire city named Who-ville.
He is ridiculed by his fellow jungle friends. But, as he says, if you were way out in space and you looked down at where we lived, we would look like a speck, too. The moral: "A person's a person, however small."
The American makers of Ice Age have remade the tale in a manner that's clever at times but not entirely appropriate.
Even the vocal presence of Jim Carrey as Horton and Steve Carell as the microscopic Mayor of Who-ville doesn't entirely do the business.
Besides, this is essentially a thin if charming tale which seems stretched at feature length.
Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!
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