It’s not just that she can’t sing, which the producers must have thought was cute, but you’re sitting there not completely assured that she is going to remember all the words.
The little girl – Cindy Lou Who – has a moment where she has to warble a sentimental tune to help establish the plot. He could have taken a lesson or two from Jack Lemmon’s portrayal of a cartoonish villain in “The Great Race.” As the fiendish Professor Fate, Lemmon was found hysterical by little ones and grown-ups – and without crassness.īut these few loutish pranks aren’t the film’s biggest sin. Carrey is a crude version of Jerry Lewis. Carrey speaks a few other inappropriate jokes. I suppose the outlandishness of seeing guileless Whoville dwellers participating in such a hedonistic sexual game may be humorous, but it is also a vulgar and cheap gag. The joke is aimed at an older crowd, familiar with the sexual game of couples at a party exchanging keys and going home with someone else’s automobile – and date. And neither will the major portion of the audience the film is aimed at – little ones.Īt one point, merry-makers are pictured through a snow-outlined window, partying and placing keys in a fish bowl. Geisel didn’t catch all of the objectionable material. “That’s not the Seuss world, not at all.” She said. Seuss” Geisel exercised veto power over the script, ejecting many of the bathroom jokes. It is reported that the widow of Theodore “Dr. Jim Carrey, as the spiteful Grinch, has some terrific moments and his rubber-like body is a cartoon in itself, but it is difficult for him to roam around a film without spreading some coarseness here and there. But just as money doesn’t buy happiness (so I’m told) neither does it buy charm or class. Watching director Ron Howard’s attempt to bring the Grinch to life, I kept thinking, “Look at all the money.” The sets, the costumes, and the makeup – it had to cost a fortune. I’m not so sure, however, that all children’s stories are best suited to live-action, theatrical-length productions. It still holds up today as delightful family entertainment. The seasonal fixture featured the amiable voice of Boris Karloff as the rhyming narrator and the title character. Seuss’s classic picture book was transformed into an animated TV masterpiece by Warner Brothers cartoonist Chuck Jones.
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