Horton Hears a Who!

1970

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

7
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2240 2.2K

based on children's book cartoon mouse miniature people cartoon elephant

Director

Chuck Jones Photo
Chuck Jones

Top cast

Thurl Ravenscroft Photo
Thurl Ravenscroft as Wickersham Brother
June Foray Photo
June Foray as Jane Kangaroo
Hans Conried Photo
Hans Conried as Narrator
Chuck Jones Photo
Chuck Jones as Junior Kangaroo
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235.52 MB
954*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 25 min
Seeds 7
436.84 MB
1432*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 25 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gavin6942 7 / 10

A Strange Message Hidden in a Children's Tale

Horton the Elephant discovers the Whos, a race of people who live entirely on a speck of dust and know nothing of the outside world. His jungle friends don't believe him and turn against Horton, eventually threatening to boil the dust speck in beezlenut oil.There are at least three layers to this film. On the most superficial level, it's a cartoon featuring an elephant, some little people and a handful of catchy songs that kids and parents will love. This is what you'd get if you weren't following along at all, and you'd still have a good movie.On the next level, we have the film's core message: a person's a person, no matter how small. This is what most people will walk away with, and the intent is clear: we're all created equally. Whether Suess was focusing on race, gender, physical stature or handicap is unclear... but we get the point -- each of us is human, even if we're different.The third level is a bit convoluted and I'm not entirely sure I grasp it. The Wickersham brothers accuse Horton of trying to create civil unrest. Here we may see parallels to the events of the 1960s. The Wickersham brothers want to protect "free enterprise" and "compound interest rates" and hope to stop Horton from overthrowing the government. I'm not really sure how that relates to a dust speck... this seems a cheap attempt at attacking extreme right-wingers (such as Joseph McCarthy).So, you'll like the first and second levels... and the third one just might leave you scratching your head. Or, if you're me, liking it even more. I mean, politics is in no way foreign to Suess -- watch (or read) "The Butter Battle Book" or "The Sneeches" or "The Lorax"...
Reviewed by echozdog 8 / 10

Boil that dust speck! Boil that dust speck!

I had fond memories of this movie from when I was a kid. I never see it on TV anywhere though. This is my kids favorite book for me to read. They like to finish the line "A person's a person no matter how small". The most vivid memory is of the Wickersham Brother's singing "Boil that dust speck! Boil that dust speck!" and the "We are here!" letters getting caught in the clouds and the little twerps "Yop!" breaking through. I wish they would make the other Horton story "Horton hatches an egg!" into a movie. This one addresses the topic of adoption in a very cool way. Since all my kids are adopted I especially like that one.Horton hers a who is great for kids! 8/10
Reviewed by invisibleunicornninja 7 / 10

Entertaining.

This is a great and well-made cartoon for children.
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