Seussian Weekend
by Sarah Lena ~ April 6th, 2008. Filed under: The Couch Potato, The Evil Stepmother, The Mommy.This weekend, all of my Dr. Seuss animated movies came in. We watched Dr. Seuss on the Loose yesterday (which involved some Sneetches, Green Eggs & Ham, and those ole stubborn Zaxx) and this morning we watched The Lorax.
I’m so lame. The Lorax, the damn Lorax, made me cry.
Now, in my (meager) defense, it’s a completely different story now that I have little ones that we’re leaving our earth for. And to watch a cartoon made 20-some-odd years ago warn us of our environmental destruction drove home that we may be too far gone to turn around.
Anyway, moving on: let me highly recommend these DVDs. My favorite part of these is by far the music; while the animation is sometimes lacking (it’s not as sharp as our Pixar eyes are accustomed to nowadays), the music is lush and harmonious, often consisting of Seussian-catchy lyrics and four or five part harmonies. I think it speaks volumes that I still knew every single word to every single song (some, even in harmony) twenty years after I last heard them. The Boy was entranced by all of them, and I’m sure Binja will spend many hours spellbound as well.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I love those old Dr. Suess movies! haha, I was not aware Emily and I could have evil twins lurking about– I was pretty much sure that we were all of ourselves the world could handle. Of course I could just be flattering myself by thinking that. I would love to see you and the baby at Panoply! It would be quite a treat!
April 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I hate that you bought this. You know, I have the whole collection on one DVD. Its boxed up but I would have happily found it and burned it for you. I don’t have Horton Hears a Who though. Do you?