Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
I once applied to work at one of the few video-rental chains not yet bankrupt. You'd think being a video-rental clerk would suit me well, with my somewhat detailed cinematic knowledge. But I overheard some of the young Gen-X guys already working there chatting excitedly about the recent digitally animated HORTON HEARS A WHO, you know, the one with the voice of Jim Carrey. Wanting to show off my knowledge of inventory, I started informing the young managers about how, in the 1950s, Dr. Seuss himself conceived a live-action picture, 100 per cent original, Columbia Pictures - and how it's largely been forgotten since; they ought to stock it, maybe have it next to HORTON as a cool retro-option. O my brothers, they looked at me as though I'd been speaking a strange and unpleasant foreign language, then went back to their business. I knew there and then I'd lost the job opportunity.
