![]() Language: very harsh and sarcastic a lot of name-calling: ‘moron’, ‘idiot’, and ‘boob’ (repeated many times, the ultimate insult levelled by the town council against the mayor: my daughter was still giggling about it days later)Ī truly uplifting story about tolerance and equality in its book form – “a person’s a person no matter how small” – is turned by extremely talented people into an extremely annoying film. Violence: treated as humour: Mayor gets stapler stuck in his head… twice one animal character is drop-kicked much fall-down slapstick stuff Mob descending on Horton at end is rather intense, caging him and tossing the speck into boiling oil! Situation milked for optimum suspense. Also the vulture Vlad is rather creepy – he is made goofy through his dialogue, but this will be lost on younger viewers who will just find him threatening. Scary Factor: One scene of Horton trying to cross a rickety swinging bridge above a chasm had my daughter (4) climbing the walls and whimpering. ![]()
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