Horton 2008 Movie Trailer

Horton Hears A Who! is American computer-generated imagery (CGI) movie, based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name and the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios. It is the first Dr. Seuss adaptation fully animated using CGI technology. The film is rated "G" by the Motion Picture Association of America

Synopsis

On the remote leaf of a chestnut tree, the morning dew comes together in a tiny drop of water, which falls onto a chestnut. The chestnut falls and rolls along the tree trunk, through a field of dandelions, and into a small crevice. In the path of the rolling chestnut is a yellow daisy, on which is a speck of dust. As the chestnut hits the daisy, the speck goes flying through the air, carrying the miniscule world of Whoville with it.

In the Jungle of Nool, Horton the Elephant hears a small noise, just a very faint yelp as if some tiny person were calling for help. He sees only a small speck of dust floating past through the air. He thinks that there must be one or more people on that speck. He wants to save them because "a person's a person, no matter how small". He catches it and places it on a very soft clover.

Horton talks with Ned, who is one of many very small people living in the town Who-ville on the speck; he is the mayor. Ned uses a sounding horn so that Horton can hear him. The people of Who-ville were not aware they are on a speck on a clover; Horton convinces Ned by demonstrating that he can put the speck into and out of the shade. Also, when the speck is put in a smelly place this can be observed, and shocks can be felt as earthquakes. Ned and his wife Sally have 96 daughters, and one son, Jojo, who does not say much.

Ned is concerned about the safety of the town and tries to postpone the Who Centennial, but this is rejected by the Council. Horton and Ned agree that Horton has to find a safe place for the speck, and Horton plans to put it in a cave at the top of Mt. Nool.

In the meantime, Horton's enthusiastic students have adopted the beliefs that there are other worlds beyond their jungle habitat, and have now "found" worlds of their own. Sour Kangaroo (the type who’s convinced she knows better than you) does not believe Horton. She made every law and enforced every rule as self-proclaimed Head of the Jungle of Nool. She orders Horton to hand over the clover so she may destroy it. Horton refuses.

Kangaroo enlists the services of eagle hit man Vlad Vladikoff, though she only does this by pretending to go to the Wickershams, a similarly gangish group of simians led by their hot-tempered boss Yummo. As Horton endeavors to stop Vlad from attacking the speck, the Mayor decides now is the time to inform the Whos of Horton's existence. Though this is a failed attempt at first, the Whos are finally convinced when a huge earthquake hits as a result of Vlad dropping the clover somewhere in a great patch of clover one hundred miles wide. Though it is a very distressingly painstaking effort, Horton finds the speck at last. When initially there is no response upon his discovery of the right clover, Horton tearfully fears the inhabitants have died, but this is proven otherwise. Now Horton's resolve for the city's safety strengthens even more, though future trouble is on the horizon.

Just as Vlad informs Kangaroo of his deed, Mrs. Quilligan, a jungle citizen, informs Kangaroo that Horton still has the clover. Kangaroo is now enraged, and falsely testifies to the people that Horton is the cause of a chaos that has swept their jungle, and "for the children", they must destroy his speck. The quaint people quickly evolve into an angry mob, who chase down Horton, trapping him. Kangaroo mockingly offers Horton an ultimatum: admit he was wrong and be spared, or refuse and be caged, treated like a slave. Horton boldly refuses, and explains to the people that Whoville does indeed exist. Though his speech is indeed powerful, Kangaroo orders his arrest. She orders the clover to be dropped in a boiling pot of beezelnut oil. What then results is a full-fledged effort by Whoville, by way of loud instruments and by their own powerful voices, to prove their existence. At first the noises prove too weak to be heard outside of their small world. Also, the Mayor finds Jojo, and learns of his incredible music talent and that he has created an enormous music machine in the observatory, but the additional noise by Jojo's machine is still not enough. So at the Mayor's office, Jojo takes the sounding horn his father was using to communicate with Horton, rushes to the roof and sounds off with it. Just before Kangaroo's dropping of the clover meets the stew, Rudy, Kangaroo's son, saves it, having heard Jojo's sound as the final contribution necessary to allow the Who's to be heard. At that event, Rudy firmly supports Horton's assertion about the existence of the Who's with this evidence. Kangaroo tries to rally the jungle folk into taking the speck after Rudy refuses to return it to her, but the truth is now revealed and everyone reproaches her for the atrocity she almost made them do.

Rudy hands the clover to Horton. Horton and the Mayor share a moment of happiness along with the rest of the jungle folk, which is emphasized by the arrival of the "bunny" Vlad, who hands Horton a cookie. Kangaroo is visibly humiliated and shameful, but Horton shows his forgiveness by handing her his cookie. In return, a grateful and humbled Kangaroo holds up an umbrella to shelter the speck for the journey, and after everyone, including Jojo, sings a rendition of "Can't Fight This Feeling", the crowd, led by Horton, Kangaroo, and Rudy, head towards Mt. Nool to place the speck where it belongs. The camera then pans out to show that the jungle of Nool is, like Whoville, floating among many other worlds out in space.

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