For his second adventure into the world of Dr. Seuss, Carrey plays an elephant named Horton, who inexplicably begins hearing a tiny voice shouting from speck on a clover. As it turns out, this speck is actually Whoville, whose mayor, played by Steve Carell, can hear and talk to Horton.

The adventure that follows teaches, in true Seussian fashion, a great lesson to kids about not bowing to conformity and following what you believe in. It's also ripe with humor and many references that will go over the heads of the smaller children in the audience, including nods to Bela Lugosi's version of Dracula, and Francis FordCoppola's Apocolypse Now.

The one thing that stood out to this reviewer while watching the film was the incredible computer animation. The world Dr. Seuss created was perfectly imagined, and his original art is actually featured, in full-form animation, during one of Horton's dream sequences. The amount of time and effort the artists put in to create the digital world in this film is beyond belief, and while we're not talking about something incredibly photo-realistic, it fits the cartooned style and does not feel the least bit out of place.

My only complaint with this movie would be the lack of real character development. I was never sure, beyond a quick speech towards the end of the film, what angered the Kangroo (played in a bit of an understated manner by Carol Burnett) about Horton's ability to communicate with the Whos. We were introduced to Seth Rogen's Morton, but he's barely around enough to make an impact on things one way or another. Lastly, we had Will Arnett's Vlad, probably the most visually appealing character in the movie, relegated to an estimated 15 minutes of screen time. Even ignoring these characters, we still had quite an impressive main cast, who were also slightly underdeveloped. I was pretty interested in how the Mayor of Whoville managed to father 90-some odd children and was still able to walk.