Jim Carrey – Information

Cast: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett and Seth Rogen.
Directors: Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino.
Writers: Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul.
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An animated movie, based on the book by Dr. Seuss who also wrote When the Grinch Stole the Christmas.

Jim Carrey speaks for Horton, an elephant that lives in the jungle of Nool. One day Horton discovers that a tiny community of creatures called Whos live on a speck of dust in a village called Whoville.

Horton decides to help protect Whoville and it’s habitants from all kinds of danger. This, however, proofs to be trouble because no other animal in Nool except Horton can see or hear the Whos and so they refuse to believe they exist at all.

Now Horton must do everything in his power to protect the speck from distruction while he struggles to convince the other animals that even tiny lives that no one can see or hear are worth saving.

Watch the Trailer:

Clip #1

Here’s a funny scene where Horton (Jim Carrey) tries to cross a wooden bridge that doesn’t seem to be very safe – especially for an elephant. Meanwhile, the major is at the dentist …

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Clip #2

In this scene, Morton (Seth Rogen) tries to warn Horton about impending danger. Even best friends can’t be trusted!

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Clip #3

This is the scene where Horton discovers Whoville (and the major discovers Horton).

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Featurette

Here we see the actors talk about the movie and the challange of speaking for the characters.

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Trivia provided by The Internet Movie Database:

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• Jim Carrey’s second movie based on a Dr. Seuss story. The first was (How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)). Both stories have Whos in them. 
• Green eggs (from “Green Eggs and Ham”) are briefly seen during The Mayor and his 97 kids’ breakfast.
• The Horton quote “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant: An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent,” is actually from “Horton Hatches the Egg,” another Dr. Seuss story featuring the enduringly faithful elephant.
• Shipped to some theaters under the codename “88 Keys”
• After the snow falls in Whoville the children can be seen building a ‘Grinch’ snowman.
• The fantasy sequence in which Horton imagines himself to be a great hero to the Whos is animated and spoken in a faux-Japanese anime style.
• Some of the trees seen in the movie resemble Trufula Trees from another Seuss story, “The Lorax.”
• Rudy, Kangaroo’s son, mentions in one scene an imaginary friend of his named “Thidwick”. Another Dr. Seuss story is “Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose”.
• A Who holding a plate of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is visible during the crowd scene at the end of the film.
• Morton the mouse, who isn’t in the original book, is actually named after the baby elephant/bird creature, Morton, from “Horton Hatches the Egg.”
• When Horton is turning his ears into different hats, one of the hats is one worn by Bartholomew Cubbins in the Dr Seuss book “500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins”.
• Amy Poehlers character is named Sally O’Malley, which is also the name of a recurring character on “Saturday Night Live (1975)” played by Molly Shannon. Both Poehler and Shannon got their careers started on Saturday Night Live.
• The basket that JoJo McDodd jumps into to reach the slingshot which ascends him to the old observatory, is actually a part of a giant Alexander Calder sculpture known as a “mobiles”.
• The observatory building is shaped like the Cat’s hat from the book “The Cat in the Hat”.
• The mayor’s skiis have the same design as the Cat’s in the book “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back”.
• The first portrait that the Mayor shows to Jo-Jo is, in fact, a Who-style caricature of Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss).