The TERRIBLE Illumination Lorax Movie...

it's the terrible Lorax movie now this movie came out just about around the universal 100th anniversary at a time when illumination was just about starting to get into the dror suits projects that they had they didn't quite have the grasp on the Mario movie so we're here instead now I'm hoping to do a terrible movie episode pretty much every weekend at this point we we'll see how it goes but uh come join for the ride so let's not D datle on any more time it's now 2012 so let's get into things hello everybody is that Danny DeVito oh this is going to be a ride I can tell so he's speaking on stage to introduce us to the concept of thneedville a town without nature and no trees The Lorax is rhyming his poems out but I assume it'll only be narration this entire movie it'd be great if the entire dialogue of this movie for a Dr Seuss movie rhymed but this is illumination we're talking about yeah now we have water delivery and kids jumping about the town and as we're introduced in this little montage to the strange architecture of thfi which I believe is mostly original to the movie The Book only really goes onto the nature as spe story that we'll see in a bit the whole town is singing to [Music] [Applause] us yeah you can kind of tell this is the original part it's it's not quite Dr Seuss levels of poetry is it but the town is screwed water makes you radiated and glowing the parking cars is a whole thing as we come to see our villain where he's getting a a business pitch about how they might have finally found a way to sell air and to tell you the truth uh give it a couple more years and I'm sure we'll get right there too our kid protagonist along the way has a super plane is this meant to be the future Tech even I have this as a kid all right I guess we're quickly starting to see how dated the original source is and how unapologetically the movie wants to not update any of it but in having it it's an excuse to go to the boys Crush but they seem to know each other anyway and they seem to get on quite well so it's a little elaborate but we'll we'll take it and she wants to show off something cool to the boy graffiti once again this is a theme of graffiti cool in a kind of terrible movie but those are trees real ones they were softer than anything and smelled like butterfly milk Audrey here wishes to see a real tree and wants one growing in her backyard one day so if a guy got her one well I'd probably marry him on the spot and that's the kickoff for our entire plot I've seen arguments about this film about how why isn't she the protagonist then if she's the one with the desire to bring back the trees it's kind of a bit restrictive if you put it to the guy will fix this because he has a crush but hey is dated and as we've already established illumination has no interest in updating its dated material it's not even that badly dated but the parts that are are anyway let's see the execution don't play with your food you either mom so now the kid is snooping around for info about a real tree meanwhile the mom is more into techno trees disco no please stop illumination stop doing your illumination thing please I'm begging you and it's the grandma who comes up saying you need to find the onler oh no this is the movie with him in it she tells of the man who knows what happened and where to find him in more poetry terms nice at least they're adapting Dr Seuss a little bit more in places he'll tell you everything if you bring him Niche knickknacks 15 cents is that adjusted for inflation and so the kid scoots out of there through a door in the wall which then leads to an actual alert going on don't know why there is a door in the wall if it leads to an alert but okay oh hair here the villain is noticing it now is ohare from the books I feel like they might also be at a um mination original but the boys scoot around through a Labyrinth of pollutant Factory stuff don't pay attention to it until eventually they come to see the deadlands this is an environmental movie it's about deforestation I sure hope there isn't an advert for a Mazda SUV supported by the L so the boys scoot through with events you know they fall into a ditch they go along a cliff Edge they see sign you know content they come to the street of the lifted Lorax and then finally the oner's house I was wondering earlier why is he called the onler because it kind of just sounds like the one slur which is very much I assume not the tone they're going for I don't think this is meant to be a an allegory for anything like that apparently it's a play on the Once Upon a Time Vibe so he is a Once Upon a Time character the once L all right anyway a trapo swings the kid in the air and he's caught by the house but the kid has found him the onela and they talk through the window rejected at first and then he mentions trees but I didn't think anyone still cared about trees and the onler goes on to say that they're all gone because of me as we come to see him as a young man it it's all a flashback I wasn't actually aware of this when I first watched this movie I I never saw it as a kid I get that the book is entirely the oners kind of story but I think sum's really lost on this adaptation in the fact that the actual plotline of this movie is just a generic here let me tell you my story kind of story even if that's what the narrator of the books is sort of presenting the story as I think what you've really done is just bloated it with a slightly uninteresting real world this is the part you come to The Lorax toy I would assume it's certainly why tumblr's here again because this now this is the sexy man and he only exists in the past all right then eventually anyway he wagons to Paradise Norway if my eyes don't deceive me oh and now there's singing fish and bear and birds it's a display of nature but also under the illumination lens it looks more like one of those fake short animations that get shoves onto your iPod for some reason remember those and the onler contributes with this is the autotune oh gosh remember those days I didn't realize this was such a musical movie but I guess that starts to make sense considering illumination sing and so Antics roll out all the animals are angry and it's all resolved with [Music] marshmallows what is this movie so then the onler starts chopping down a tree I had just summoned a mystical creature As Old As Time 22 minutes in and we finally hear of The Lorax Beyond a single sign and so he spawns in saddened by the loss of a single tree God this guy would hate natural disasters all of the animals come together to supply rocks for the funeral too and so the lorax goes to confront the aansa I speak for the trees the onela responds by giving him a marshmallow and then he starts deconstructing the home the lur curses the onel but I didn't listen to his warning and then there's just a bunch of padding about hearing more of the story as the oner kicks the Zack Efron kid out by the way he's Zack Efron if you weren't aware despite his reservations I'll see you tomorrow maybe just maybe and again I think this is like part of the problem obviously with a Dr Seuss book it's very very short literally just a bedtime story so they had to Pat out this story somehow but by having it just be I need to get to the guy to tell me the story of the movie I want to see and in the meantime I'll exist in the day it's not the best formula for a movie I could see a kid switching off pretty quickly cuz I am and I'm 27 but it's Audrey having a birthday party blowing out a candle cake and the Zach Efron kid comes swinging down the stairs knowing just what she wished for was it perhaps this but of course it was a dream he's kissing a cial box so no we can't see more of the onler plot because the family is busy playing board games instead this movie is only 90 minutes and still there are so many additional scenes plugged in to waste your time I knew I could break her go see him actually it was granny delaying things to bore the mom to make him go to the Ona now so it's also not even a non-plot delay it's just a beat you know we we came out of the story to get a dream almost board games and then the board games were interrupted anyway to go back I don't know and Ted is now approached by Mr oare where he's like I'll be your worst nightmare don't go poking around in what you don't understand O'Hare reveals he has eyes everywhere and how he has a lot of things in town to handle your short attention span and then the kid runs Outdoors anyway and isn't stopped by anybody clearly you missed me a little right you see and we just right back to it this is just a lot of padding but it's also not that impactful on the story or the audience and even this scene isn't even going into the story first it's more of a back and forth between the two of asking why he wants to hear the story instead of getting to the story the kid goes on to explain that he's going to get a tree for this go after the onow works it out and then finally we're off back to the actual flashback story whereby he sitted a fneed the very first it's fabric he goes to bed and is lifted [Music] away yeah this is still a 2012 illumination movie in the middle of their tropes they swing him into the river sending him away oh but they left one bear and need to rescue him for he can't swim what an action scene with a slow moving bed mostly non-verbal characters oh but now there is he's going to be saved where'd you go yeah it's just padding the movie we should rename this movie The Lord re that was a very slow poorly done joke I'm sorry the onler falls into slightly more rapid Rapids fish are singing the end is nigh and finally he wakes up for the waterfall we're in a river what commentary but it continues seemingly getting worse there's a bigger waterfall now and The Lorax drops a bower all for The Lorax officially has a kill count but uses the bearss as a defi related to wake him up that's nice I like that gag I feel like there hasn't been all that many gags to be honest with you unless you count pop culture music callouts the bed does a flip at one point in the river that's fun and appreciation for surviving turns into distaste for chucking his bed in the river in the first place so they actually communicate oncea declaring that he'll never chop down another tree cuz everyone else needs them thank you for making it halfway through this video as per usual do check below to see if you are subscribed and as I said earlier we are doing these Terribles every week there'll be another one next weekend hopefully so focus on our Discord server for suggestions on what to cover next I've got all the illumination movies on my list but for now I'll let you get back to the rest of the terrible 2012 Lorax movie back we go so it's the next day and everyone lives here now it was cold outside and it seemed so cozy in here they say this is their way of keeping an eye on him more conf lict out of nowhere cuz to be fair conflict is kind of the fuel of a movie but okay meanwhile the Ona finally gives the FED pitch it's a swimsuit playing music in the gondola but was hit with tomatoes instead the general public lashing out at him and overall just hating his design yeah this is the kind of edut of the current modern general public I feel but it lands on one girl's head and hey cool hat now it's a slice of life in the nature he looks pancakes for everyone it's almost a lovely little pocket of something until interrupted by a crowd of people it's another song about [Music] fed someone find that guy's hard drives the onler then goes on to invite their family to come here but back to the kid in town now who still hasn't heard the entire story despite visiting on two separate days he's taking Grandma to mini Mar where he goes on to see Audrey and then we immediately move on was it a needed scene really now Audrey comes home to see the graffiti has been removed and the kid uses his bike to swing out of the boundary going through the houses and over the rooftops see this is a nice bit especially with the suan architecture going on here yet it's somehow not that exciting to look at I don't know if it's the music making it dull or what but this bit here is so un unexecuted maybe a pop culture song would have fit better here cuz it just happens in front of you this time anyway back to the flashback it was all downhill from there the family has arrived they're all rednecks with no regard for nature now we're hitting home on the theme here they're ready to get to work for the onler even though they were all berating him earlier but family is family I guess the Caravan extends very illuminous suian I like it and The Lorax comes to intrude the on here telling his vision of a town full of thedes to which The Lorax says which way does a tree fall the way it leans that sounds profound was it Dr Seuss that wrote yeah yeah he did that's where the intelligent dialogue comes from that makes sense God whose idea was it to put Illumination in charge with the rest of the dialogue the family then comes around to say that harvesting the tus is taking too long we could always start chopping down the trees and so they do the Auntie even going as far as to dispose of The Lorax somewhat and of course they're all upset with The Lorax being like hey you broke your promise you're better than this sure and for the kids that really don't get the idea behind this movie they have The Lorax go out of his way to outright say this is bad which I know illumination is aiming low for demographics but I've never seen an idea or theme be so overtly said this is bad oh God and and so the onel does the thing he brings out the guitar and he does the bit I'll say it again how is this guy the Tumblr sexy man and so it's a montage of the factory being built and doing it as a montage allows us to skip any confrontation against the supposed weeks it would take to build Sneedville all against the backing of these vaguely gradient backgrounds which yeah I guess looks like a nice Sunset but the rest is really just easy unbudgeted empty space I can't believe this is in an illumination movie they were really pushing for full efficiency on their movie if they didn't even want to do the backgrounds anymore yet make so much profit and the pr people are lying wow this is so on the nose considering how illumination treated the IP with a sponsorship the onler now has gone full send on being evil despite his clear connection with some of the animals before and now finally The Lorax appears so how are things what are you doing here the onler goes on to ask why he hasn't used his powers yet and how nothing really is going to stop him until the one last tree falls it's time now to look in in despair for the onler I mean there's probably more Over the Horizon you just got to move a little bit but yes that's what stopped him finite resources wonder what the next million dooll invention is going to be and that's what had oare gun for clean air the family leaves disappointed in the on now the animals can't live here anymore so they commute away I know that walk yeah this was essentially the UK the day after brexit Lorax then lifts himself into the heavens I'm sorry this is is meant to be serious he's literally hking his own ass and the onler is left all alone bringing us back to present day he's been regretting it every day confused by the unless stone that happens to be on the floor nearby but the kid is the reason to turn things around nothing is going to get better unless someone cares a lot they say as he drops a magic seed to the kid you need to plant it Ted why exactly the onler couldn't do it this entire time if he had the seed or whatever uh what I don't know okay and it all has to go to the kid of course all right off you go Ted Zack Efron nobody cares but make them care planted in the middle of town so everyone can see he says it's not about what it is but what it can become there are elements of good writing in here because this is taking elements from good writing but God is this movie execution not really it and so the kid heads out being like I won't let you down hairy man so he sneaks into town he calls out to Audrey to meet at his house leaves the seed in his room but water pours onto it as ohare also arrives in his house demanding the seed but despite closing into the room that it was in it's gone this doesn't involve you suddenly the mom has the guts to call him out and kick him out turns out granny has it now don't know how or when but it's finale time now mom also enjoys the real seed despite earlier calling out for the Disco trees all right as Audrey comes in and you're going to help me plant it right in the middle of town so they drive right to Town the non- Minion Minions following why only them and not oare as well I have no idea it's a car chase kind of it's not very built for it though is it and certainly not as appealing as it could have been oh hello but it was a distraction O'Hare was one step ahead I guess in chasing the second wave huh wow oh still not that interesting of a Chase sequence but they get to the elevator in time the villain grapples up to the top wins the sea to the air and they snowboard down I mean I guess it's vaguely good again the environment here is grandiose the snowboarding grandma has already been done with Hoodwink though and again the tone is just muted the whole way it's like the architecture and the design is really good because of its source material but just the execution in making this impactful is lost somewhere in the illumination machine and the seed is in a plastic bottle [Music] and that's the defeat as he crashes into the cafe they need to plant it but there's no dirt anywhere so granny then commanders a digger there's dirt under the floor why would we need a tree exactly the villain is here to monologue about the Badness of real trees as one final push to switch him away from the public opinion that this is good think about the kids huh real political lines there the kids respond by saying the trees create clean air for free and that destroys his entire argument though the crowd returns to fight alongside O'Hare anyway to which the kid crashes into the wall and so the public witnessed the dead lands on the outside he monologues about speaking for the trees before showcasing the seed where did the onler Get It Anyway the villain goes on to tell us what you think you don't know me but my name's s oh okay maybe don't tell us what you think saigh everyone then each starts to sing about Let It Grow hold on are you kidding me it this movie predates Frozen and it has an almost identical lyric as its main peace let it it it incredible as much as mega mind must have been kicking it for having the less successful minion I bet illumination kicking it for having the less successful let it oh song and then even the villain gets involved nah I say let it die that's fun as they physically assault him and Rocket him away very illumination does a rocket not also produce environmentally pollutant fumes the town finds another excuse to sing and dance about it all as the onler looks out thank you Ted the kid gets his plant planted he gets the kiss and we timelapse the growth of the tree [Music] the on slow watering witnessing birds and also The Lorax appears again landing on the unless Stone you done good Bean pole he did I thought he herited in his house for like 50 years full of regret until someone else popped up to do all of the plotline taking the idea of someone has to care a lot to make change really literally as it all falls to someone else okay this is a super mid illumination movie illumination is in charge of the execution of this movie right was any of this actually memorable maybe that how bad could it possibly be but that's just an overt overexposure to it everything else in this movie was just too muted and boring this movie it wasn't easy cash grab with minimal artistic introduction from a world as wacky as Dr Seuss there was just so little wackiness at most it's the architecture of the town and that's the Bare Bones of Illumination contribution anyway it's nice to see these characters in 3D a message vaguely got acrossed and then was immediately run over by that SUV commercial but I guess the idea of Illumination holding back is maybe a good thing since the alternative would have been way too many more pop culture references pop culture songs and overly safe generic storytelling and that was the terrible illuminations Lorax just another bad environmental movie to add to the piling collection for now though I'm going to end it off there thank you very much for making it to the end of this video do let me know of other terrible movies you'd like me to cover since we are doing these practically weekly now and on that note I shall see you in a little bit

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Published: Sat Apr 13 2024