Horton Hears a Who!

An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.

This Blue Sky Studios adaptation of the Seuss classic lands as a genuinely faithful and visually inventive rendering of the source material, earning broadly favorable notices. Critics were most struck by the animation itself — the Seussian world translated to 3D with unexpected fidelity — though the film doesn't inspire the kind of passionate debate that marks a more divisive release.