
Here's an innocent 3-D movie for the kids: a 12-year-old boy ventures to a remote wasteland where he hopes to find the last of the magical Truffula Trees. The Lorax, from the animation studio that made Despicable Me, is based on the 1971 book by Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, whose rhyming fables have delighted several generations of children and inspired the classic TV specials (and more-recent hit movies) How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who! Sweetest of all, The Lorax opens on March 2, the 108th anniversary of Geisel's birth.
Not so fast, naive parents. In a...