Mar 16, 2008. Our family just got back from seeing Horton Hears a Who. We all really enjoyed it. I think a sign of a really good movie is when the audience claps at the end. That doesn’t happen too often, but there was applause at the end of this one. However, my kids are too cool to clap so they just smiled. Another plus, there is only one song in the entire movie! This is good news for us because our kids hate singing in movies. It was enjoyable for us parents, too. We both laughed a lot. We are easily amused, though.

Jim Carrey was great (of course) as Horton, and the Mayor of Whoville (voice Steve Carell) was great, too. Carol Burnett was entertaining, in a grouchy bad guy kind of way. It was funny when she kept shoving her kid’s head down into her kangaroo pouch and saying, “Go to your room!”

One day, Horton the elephant (Jim Carrey) hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even 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 neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, “After all, a person is a person, no matter how small.”