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Vegan Street Food: Foodie Travels from India to Indonesia

Jackie Kearney

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Winner of the Best Book Award in the PETA Vegan Food Awards 2016. Jackie and her family ate their...

The Sweet Potato Diet: The Super Carb-Cycling Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks

Michael Morelli

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The Sweet Potato Diet is for carb lovers who don't want to give up their favorite food group to lose...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012) in Movies

Jul 4, 2021

Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)

2012 | Animation, Family

7.2

(17 Ratings)

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Everyone who claims the weird Once-ler fandom from 2012 died don't realize that it simply morphed into all those people who want to fuck that TikTok Willy Wonka dude tbh. Another aimless round of empty visual inertia from Illumination which painfully crawls at hardly 87 minutes in length. How you all feel about 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (which I think is just mediocre) is how I feel about this - an endurance test to see how long the human brain can tolerate such abominable annoyances without snapping like a twig. I fucking loathe those dumbass fish that wouldn't shut the fuck up or those sickly-sweet bears. Somehow not even the worst Seuss adaptation from this company though, the Lorax's design and choice of DeVito for voice actor is essentially a dead-ringer. Not to mention how impressed I am with Ed Helms' multifaceted voice performance and some stuff in the last thirty minutes is kind of half-decent too. It also doesn't exactly have the wrong aesthetic, either - but it's in service of such thorough vapidity, I mean what an aggressive non-story going on here. Plus - surprise - it's totally performative; you know those marketing execs would have happily chopped down a million of those forests to make some Illumination-brand Lorax plushies. Tried so hard to be 'in the now' that it features side-banged fedora hipster twinks with emo hair and ends with nasty-ass amounts of early-2010s autotune you'd already forgotten existed. Not only a fundamental misunderstanding of Seuss but a pathetic excuse for a movie as well.