The Lorax

About

The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the Once-ler. As in most Dr. Seuss works, most of the creatures mentioned are original to the book.

History

2012 Film

The Lorax is a 2012 American computer-animated 3D musical fantasy comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and based on Dr. Seuss's children's book of the same name

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Reception

Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named The Lorax one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number 33 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal the second of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. In a retrospective critique written in the journal Nature in 2011 upon the 40th anniversary of the book's publication, Emma Marris described the Lorax character as a "parody of a misanthropic ecologist". She called the book "gloomy" and doubted it was good for young children. Nevertheless, she praised the book overall, and especially Seuss for understanding "the limits of gloom and doom" environmentalism.

Related Memes

Let it Grow

Let It Grow is a song from the 2012 Illumination Entertainment film The Lorax based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The song grew into a popular vehicle for Word Replacement Remixes on YouTube in late 2016.

Once-ler

The Once-ler is a fictional character played by Ed Helms from the 2012 movie “The Lorax”. Who, in the original Dr Seuss story, was depicted as a faceless green suit with long green gloves that in his greed and blindness destroys an entire ecosystem just in order to create a product called a “Thneed”.
But after the 2012 release, in which the Once-ler character was suddenly personified and obtained a face and a back-story, something a bit out of the norm happened: A large a sporadic fan-base grew up overnight from Tumblr and invaded both DeviantArt and YouTube with thousands of articles, blogs, cosplay, gifs, fan-fic and fan videos related to the character. Currently 5,500 posts under Once-ler and 8,500 under Lorax exist on DeviantArt. 1,990,000 results came up when searching “The Once-ler” on Google.
The National Anthem of the fandom is without a doubt “How bad can I be” which was featured in the movie.

How Bad Can I Be?

How Bad Can I Be? is a song from the 2012 Illumination Entertainment film The Lorax based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The song grew into a popular vehicle for Word Replacement Remixes on YouTube in late 2016.

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