Horton hears a Who!

Horton - 3.25/5 stars

Director - Jimmy Harvard & Steve Martino (debut)

One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry coming from a speck of dust. Though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his jungle neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck.

The first half hour of the movie is like watching an extended version of the movie trailer. Surprisingly this movie turns out to be pretty watchable. Although compare to Pixar movies, Dreamworks animations still lacks of a class, their movies are often cheesy, corny, doing parodies of other movies and unoriginal (Shrek, Shark Tale, Madagascar), but the script turns out to be a fresh of breath air.

Though this movies dosen't bring out any "laughing-out loud" moment, the jokes are as corny and cheesy as ever, but is definely funny enough for children below 12. For age 13-20, you will enjoy 10 % lesser, for 21-30 20% lesser and so on.

But this movie is surely entertaining enough for the average audience, so quick go spend your 8 bucks now.