Another Grinch at Fox News Terrorizes Children's Films

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not."

That sounds like a positive message for a family film, right?  After all, it's been a well-known phrase ever since Dr. Suess first wrote it in The Lorax, his cautionary tale about the dangers of not taking care of the environment, in 1971.  In fact, I think the late, great creator of characters such as the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch would be thrilled to learn that just recently, a group of Massachusetts fourth-graders petitioned - and succeeded - in getting Universal to update the official website for their upcoming adaptation of The Lorax to include information on how to help the environment.

Well, just they did with The Muppets back in December, the twits at Fox Business have proven once again that they are, in fact, still not smarter than a fourth-grader.  According to this segment posted on Media Matters for America, both Universal's The Lorax and Disney's The Secret World of Arrietty are guilty of indoctrinating children into....whatever nonsense they're accusing these movies of now. 

Honestly, we should just re-post our article about The Muppets and just change the title of the movie.  It's the same crap they pulled before. 

But here's the segment, if you need to see for yourself:

Wasn't that awesome?  I especially loved the asshole who suggested that parents taking their kids to see The Lorax buy up lots of candy and popcorn, then dump all of the garbage on the floor in protest. 

I'm not going to belabor this...because obviously there is no evil message in either of these stories.  Secret World of Arrietty isn't even a Hollywood film, it was imported from Japan.  And not that that matters either, since the characters in that film "borrow" as a way of survival, not because of some kind of entitlement issue.

As far as The Lorax, I haven't seen the movie yet, but it is my favorite Dr. Suess book, so I know the story very well.  It's not about the evils of industry:  it's about the consequences of not caring about anything else.  That once something is gone, it's gone for good.  That "unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not."

You really have to be some kind of Grinch to find anything wrong with a message like that.