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* AnAesop:
** A person's a person, no matter how small.
** Even if no one believes you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
** A person's a person, no matter how small.
** Even if no one believes you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
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He explicitly chose it because it was far away from everything else and also supported a big sunflower that would be the perfect home for them. The idea that it's the wrong climate or bad terrain makes no sense, and the idea that Jane should have taken on the speck is pure fanfiction bordering on natter.
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: Horton's plan in the movie is to relocate the Whos to a safer place (since in the adaption Whoville has somehow become unstable). Guess where he chooses? ''A mountain''. Colder climate. Less hospitable terrain. [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption Yes, he choose a mountain]]. Sour Kangaroo and her vacant pouch would have been a more sensible choice (and poetic, going from destroyer to protector of the Whos) after her [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-face turn]].
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* AccidentalGoodOutcome: When Horton accidentally bumps the clover that carries the dust speck upon which Whoville is, it accidentally causes a condo to build itself.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: During the We Are Here climax, once Horton is in the cage, the wickershams hit Horton in the head with the cage door, jab him with sticks, and then yank his tail and trunk to try to force him to drop the clover. Once we return to him after Ned and Jojo leave the observatory to head back to Whoville, he then collapses on the cage ground in exhaustion
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* CassandraTruth: Nobody in [=WhoVille=] believes the mayor when he tells them he can communicate with the mysterious voice in the sky named Horton or that something bad will happen to their world. [[spoiler: Until it's almost too late that is.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Nobody in [=WhoVille=] Whoville believes the mayor when he tells them he can communicate with the mysterious voice in the sky named Horton or that something bad will happen to their world. [[spoiler: Until it's almost too late that is.]]
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: Horton's plan in the movie is to relocate the Whos to a safer place (since in the adaption [=WhoVille=] has somehow become unstable). Guess where he chooses? ''A mountain''. Colder climate. Less hospitable terrain. [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption Yes, he choose a mountain]]. Sour Kangaroo and her vacant pouch would have been a more sensible choice (and poetic, going from destroyer to protector of the Whos) after her [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-face turn]].
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: Horton's plan in the movie is to relocate the Whos to a safer place (since in the adaption [=WhoVille=] Whoville has somehow become unstable). Guess where he chooses? ''A mountain''. Colder climate. Less hospitable terrain. [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption Yes, he choose a mountain]]. Sour Kangaroo and her vacant pouch would have been a more sensible choice (and poetic, going from destroyer to protector of the Whos) after her [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-face turn]].
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** ShakingTheRump: After crossing the bridge, Horton’s rear ends starts bouncing happily, while he obverses it, seemingly impressed, saying “Wow, I feel really good right now. Maybe it’s my new sense of purpose.”. A few moments later, he starts twerking vigorously to hip hop/techno music, while jumping closer to the screen before carelessly colliding with a tree.
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Shaking the Rump: After crossing the bridge, Horton’s rear ends starts bouncing happily, while he obverses it, seemingly impressed, saying “Wow, I feel really good right now. Maybe it’s my new sense of purpose.”. A few moments later, he starts twerking vigorously to hip hop/techno music, while jumping closer to the screen before carelessly colliding with a tree.
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-->'''Horton''': This looks...kinda...precarious. Well, no need to worry. Obviously, when they build a bridge like this, they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.
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-->'''Horton''': This looks...kinda...precarious. Well, no need to worry. Obviously, when they build a bridge like this, they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.here
Shaking the Rump: After crossing the bridge, Horton’s rear ends starts bouncing happily, while he obverses it, seemingly impressed, saying “Wow, I feel really good right now. Maybe it’s my new sense of purpose.”. A few moments later, he starts twerking vigorously to hip hop/techno music, while jumping closer to the screen before carelessly colliding with a tree.
Shaking the Rump: After crossing the bridge, Horton’s rear ends starts bouncing happily, while he obverses it, seemingly impressed, saying “Wow, I feel really good right now. Maybe it’s my new sense of purpose.”. A few moments later, he starts twerking vigorously to hip hop/techno music, while jumping closer to the screen before carelessly colliding with a tree.
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The elephant Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo (Creator/CarolBurnett) gets rid of the speck forever.
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The elephant Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has is worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo (Creator/CarolBurnett) gets rid of the speck forever.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: For an ''elephant'', Horton is ''quite'' graceful. He does a ''perfect swan dive'' into the river. He also climbs up a steep cliff.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: For an ''elephant'', elephant, Horton is ''quite'' graceful. He does quite graceful from doing a ''perfect perfect swan dive'' dive into the river. He also climbs river to climbing up a steep cliff.
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* ActorAllusion: Just like ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
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* ActorAllusion: Just like ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking sinister-looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
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** PlayedForLaughs with the Mayor, who upon first hearing Horton, has trouble believing their co-existance, and upon finally realizing, essentially has a FreakOut.
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** PlayedForLaughs with the Mayor, who upon first hearing Horton, has trouble believing their co-existance, co-existence, and upon finally realizing, essentially has a FreakOut.
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** Though his retains his stoic dedication and good heart, Horton, once a soft-spoken GentleGiant, is presented here as a spastic gag-machine (more accurately, [[InkSuitActor Jim Carrey in an elephant suit]]). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.]]
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton's assertions, and does not like it when Sour Kangaroo (named Jane here) accuses Horton of being crazy.
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton's assertions, and does not like it when Sour Kangaroo (named Jane here) accuses Horton of being crazy.
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** Though his he retains his stoic dedication and good heart, Horton, once a soft-spoken GentleGiant, is presented here as a spastic gag-machine (more gag machine (More accurately, [[InkSuitActor Jim Carrey in an elephant suit]]). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.]]
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton'sassertions, assertions and does not like it when Sour Kangaroo (named Jane here) accuses Horton of being crazy.
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton's
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original story, Sour Kangaroo was a WellIntentionedExtremist who was grumpy, but not really much of a villain. Here, she's a straight-up sadist who cares more about her own ego than the other jungle animals, and seems to have a lot more fun in torturing Horton than she should. Not to mention being portrayed as borderline abusive toward the children that she claims to be [[ThinkOfTheChildren protecting]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original story, Sour Kangaroo was a WellIntentionedExtremist who was grumpy, but not really much of a villain. Here, she's a straight-up sadist who cares more about her own ego than the other jungle animals, animals and seems to have a lot more fun in torturing Horton than she should. Not to mention being portrayed as borderline abusive toward the children that she claims to be [[ThinkOfTheChildren protecting]].
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** Even if no one believe you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
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** Even if no one believe believes you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
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* BigLittleBrother: The mayor of Whoville is always the oldest child of the previous mayor of Whoville. The oldest child of the current mayor of Whoville, Jojo, is not only the smallest child, but also the smallest of his ENTIRE kind.
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* BigLittleBrother: The mayor of Whoville is always the oldest child of the previous mayor of Whoville. The oldest child of the current mayor of Whoville, Jojo, is not only the smallest child, child but also the smallest of his ENTIRE kind.
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* InkSuitActor: Downplayed. Horton doesn't ''exactly'' look like Jim Carrey here, but after he was cast, the more faithfully-designed Horton model was updated to include Carrey's expressive mouth.
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* InkSuitActor: Downplayed. Horton doesn't ''exactly'' look like Jim Carrey here, but after he was cast, the more faithfully-designed faithfully designed Horton model was updated to include Carrey's expressive mouth.
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* LostInImitation: The films borrows some concepts from previous adaptations of the story:
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** The concept of Jojo being an AscendedExtra as the mayor's misunderstood son and the fact that Whoville [[spoiler: is somehow not damaged in the slightest from the the fall into the cloverpatch]] both come from ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', which uses this story as one of the main plots.
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** The concept of Jojo being an AscendedExtra as the mayor's misunderstood son and the fact that Whoville [[spoiler: is somehow not damaged in the slightest from the the fall into the cloverpatch]] both come from ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', which uses this story as one of the main plots.
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** Rudy's imaginary clover friend is named "Thidwick", a reference to the eponymous capreolid of ''Literature/ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose''.
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** Rudy's imaginary clover friend is named "Thidwick", a reference to the eponymous capreolid capriole of ''Literature/ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose''.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: Jojo shouts "YOPP!", and finally speaking for the first time.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: Jojo shouts "YOPP!", and finally speaking speaks for the first time.
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** The narrator revealing at the end that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, like Whoville, among numerous others, floating in outer space.
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** The narrator revealing reveals at the end that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, like Whoville, among numerous others, floating in outer space.
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** The reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a ''thousand-mile-wide'' patch of identical clovers. In the book, it's a simple page turn, while in the movie, it's a dramatic camera pan, and both hit the viewer smack in the face with that massive field of solid pink.
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** The reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a ''thousand-mile-wide'' patch of identical clovers. In the book, it's a simple page turn, while in the movie, it's a dramatic camera pan, {{pan}}, and both hit the viewer smack in the face with that massive field of solid pink.
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Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo (Creator/CarolBurnett) gets rid of the speck forever.
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The elephant Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo (Creator/CarolBurnett) gets rid of the speck forever.
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Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo gets rid of the speck forever.
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Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo (Creator/CarolBurnett) gets rid of the speck forever.
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Deleted Nerds Are Sexy because the Dr. of WhoVille is not presented this way.
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* ActorAllusion: As with the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
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* ActorAllusion: As with the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, Just like ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
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** A person's a person, no matter how small
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** A person's a person, no matter how smallsmall.
* BitchAlert: Sour Kangaroo is first seen hopping across the jungle "Hmphing" to herself. Even a nearby deer gets out of her path when he sees her approaching. As soon as she sees Horton, she lets out a big, agitated "Hmph!"
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** And Burt from Accounting makes an appearance.
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** And When the Mayor first hears Horton, he asks if his voice is Burt from Accounting. Later when the Mayor introduces most of his fellow Whos to Horton, Burt from Accounting actually makes an a physical appearance.
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* EvilIsHammy: Vlad.
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* EvilIsHammy: Vlad. He speaks in an exaggerated Transylvanian accent and is not very subtle when he starts attacking Horton.
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* NerdsAreSexy: Dr. [=LaRue=].
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* HappilyAdopted: Horton the Elephant along with his brother Morton the blue mouse.
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* AnAesop:
** A person's a person, no matter how small
** Even if no one believe you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
** A person's a person, no matter how small
** Even if no one believe you, the important thing is that you stand up for what you believe in
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''Horton Hears a Who!'' is a 2008 AllCGICartoon made by Creator/BlueSkyStudios that is an adaptation of the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho 1954 book of the same name]]. This is the first feature-length animated film adaptation of any Creator/DrSeuss book, after his estate swore off any more live-action adaptations after 2003's ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.
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''Horton Hears a Who!'' is a 2008 AllCGICartoon made by Creator/BlueSkyStudios that is an adaptation of the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho 1954 book of the same name]]. This is the first feature-length animated film adaptation of any Creator/DrSeuss book, after his estate swore off any more live-action adaptations after the financial and critical failure of 2003's ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.
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'''Horton:''' I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.\\
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Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarrell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo gets rid of the speck forever.
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Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarrell), (Creator/SteveCarell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo gets rid of the speck forever.
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'''Horton:''' I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.\\
'''Morton:''' ''(sighs)'' An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.\\
'''Horton:''' That's my code, my motto.
''Horton Hears a Who!'' is a 2008 AllCGICartoon made by Creator/BlueSkyStudios that is an adaptation of the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho 1954 book of the same name]]. This is the first feature-length animated film adaptation of any Creator/DrSeuss book, after his estate swore off any more live-action adaptations after 2003's ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.
Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarrell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo gets rid of the speck forever.
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!!The 2008 adaptation of ''Horton Hears a Who!'' provides examples of:
* {{Acrofatic}}: For an ''elephant'', Horton is ''quite'' graceful. He does a ''perfect swan dive'' into the river. He also climbs up a steep cliff.
* ActingOutADaydream: Horton imagines himself as an anime action hero and starts doing ninja moves in the real world.
* ActorAllusion: As with the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** A {{downplayed}} case, but after the Whos are confirmed to exist on the speck, the other animals are visibly ''not'' happy at all with the Sour Kangaroo for assigning them to destroy it (especially given the more vindictive measures she took against Horton in this interpretation), leaving her shunned and remorseful until Horton shows her sympathy. In the book and special, the animals merely accept and celebrate the Whos with the kangaroo EasilyForgiven.
** PlayedForLaughs with the Mayor, who upon first hearing Horton, has trouble believing their co-existance, and upon finally realizing, essentially has a FreakOut.
* AdaptationExpansion: As necessary to make a short children's book into a feature-length movie.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Rudy. While in the book his character amounted to simply echoing his mother's "Humph," in the film he has a curious and skeptical personality regarding his mother's actions, [[spoiler:even being the one to personally save the clover from falling into the beezelnut oil.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Though his retains his stoic dedication and good heart, Horton, once a soft-spoken GentleGiant, is presented here as a spastic gag-machine (more accurately, [[InkSuitActor Jim Carrey in an elephant suit]]). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.]]
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton's assertions, and does not like it when Sour Kangaroo (named Jane here) accuses Horton of being crazy.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Vlad goes from a "black-bottomed eagle" to a vulture.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original story, Sour Kangaroo was a WellIntentionedExtremist who was grumpy, but not really much of a villain. Here, she's a straight-up sadist who cares more about her own ego than the other jungle animals, and seems to have a lot more fun in torturing Horton than she should. Not to mention being portrayed as borderline abusive toward the children that she claims to be [[ThinkOfTheChildren protecting]].
** Look at the way the animals are cowering in fear of her at the beginning. Did she previously [[FridgeHorror abuse them in the past?]]
** And possibly genocidal (toward the Whos) as well. Notice how she tried to take the clover away from Horton ''even after she heard the Whos' "We are here".''
** [[FeatheredFiend Vlad Vladikoff]] as well. In the original story, he didn't have much of a role. He simply just carried the clover off and dropped it. In the film, on the other hand, he's upgraded to a genuinely terrifying, dangerous, and feared character, with [[ToothyBird sharp teeth]] and a sadistic sense of humor. Just look at his [[SlasherSmile gleeful grin]] when he tells Kangaroo to offer her son to him as food.
* AllLovingHero: Horton. He even forgives and makes peace with the Kangaroo, despite everything she's put him through.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The mayor's 96 daughters all have names that begin with H.
* ArtShift: Happens twice. The first time is a 2D animated sequence drawn completely in Seuss' distinctive style. The other is an {{animesque}} parody action sequence/daydream, complete with [[HongKongDub mouth movements that don't match up to the voices]].
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Morton warns Horton that Kangaroo has sent Vlad to destroy the clover.
--> '''Horton''': Is it the Bad Vlad or the Bunny Vlad that makes the cookies?\\
'''Morton''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah Horton. She's sending you a bunny with cookies]]. I think we can assume it's the Bad Vlad!
* TheAtoner: Horton [[EasilyForgiven makes his peace]] with [[spoiler: Sour Kangaroo having her VillainousBSOD, who in response gladly protects the Whos as much as he does.]]
* BackingAwaySlowly: At one point in the movie, Horton shouts, "I'm talking to the mayor!". However, because the mayor is invisibly small, a nearby bird is confused and slowly backs away.
* BigBad: The Kangaroo serves as this, hunting down Horton so she can make him admit that he's supposedly wrong about the speck having living people inside of it.
* BigLittleBrother: The mayor of Whoville is always the oldest child of the previous mayor of Whoville. The oldest child of the current mayor of Whoville, Jojo, is not only the smallest child, but also the smallest of his ENTIRE kind.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: The Mayor is at the dentist when an earthquake (caused by the speck the Whos all inhabit moving) occurs, and the Novocaine needle ends up in his arm, which remains limp and useless for some time afterward.
* BreakoutCharacter: Jojo quickly became the most popular character in the film adaptation.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The other Vlad]].
** And Burt from Accounting makes an appearance.
** On the rope bridge, Horton thinks that inhaling deeply will make him lighter. Near the end Katie inhales deeply... and ''floats away''.
* CallBack: Horton's catchphrase in the movie was, of course, imported from ''Horton Hatches the Egg''.
* CannotKeepASecret: Despite Morton's warnings, Horton cannot resist telling the children of Nool about the dust speck on his clover.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody in [=WhoVille=] believes the mayor when he tells them he can communicate with the mysterious voice in the sky named Horton or that something bad will happen to their world. [[spoiler: Until it's almost too late that is.]]
** Nobody in the Jungle of Nool believes Horton when he says there's a tiny village of Whos living on the dust speck he protects.
* CanonForeigner
** Morton the Mouse.
** Additional children are seen aside from Rudy. Horton starts the movie off tutoring the yak Katie, the bear Tommy, and the bird Jessica.
** Jessica's mother, Mrs. Quilligan, is a Russian Palooski who serves the same purpose Mrs. Toucanella did in the 1970 special. Tommy's father, Willie, also appears.
** All of the named Whos aside from Nedd and Jojo [=McDodd=].
** The other Vlad (the bunny one who bakes cookies).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** Katie. Her mind's really out there.
** Horton himself. Just the sheer fact that Horton is voiced by Creator/JimCarrey in the film qualifies him for this.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Horton's plan in the movie is to relocate the Whos to a safer place (since in the adaption [=WhoVille=] has somehow become unstable). Guess where he chooses? ''A mountain''. Colder climate. Less hospitable terrain. [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption Yes, he choose a mountain]]. Sour Kangaroo and her vacant pouch would have been a more sensible choice (and poetic, going from destroyer to protector of the Whos) after her [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-face turn]].
* CreepyChild: Katie in the movie. "Aaah..."
* CrowdSong: The end of the movie.
* CryingCritters: Happens twice in the movie, first Horton breaks down crying when he's searching for the Whos in the clover field, and second Vlad cries when he witnesses an emotional moment at the end.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: There are two Vlads living in Nool; one's a fiendish buzzard, the other a friendly bunny.
* DeathGlare: After the other animals finally hear the Whos, Sour Kangaroo still tries to rally them to continue the plan. They all shoot a very sharp one of these her direction, [[OhCrap promptly shutting her up]].
* DelayedOhCrap: Eventually Horton catches on to the angry mob.
-->'''Horton:''' Oh! I see! It's an angry mob! Coming right... for... (Starts getting it) Oh no...
* DisneyDeath: Inverted. After Vlad drops Horton's clover into a field of over 3,000,005 clovers, Horton manages to find his last clover, inside the speck where the entire Whoville is almost demolished by an impact. Luckily, the Mayor and the Whos survive.
* EasilyForgiven: The animals in the Jungle of Nool. Parodied when Horton says he couldn't have done it without their utter lack of support and naked aggression.
* EvilIsHammy: Vlad.
* ExplosiveBreeder: The [=McDodd=]-O'Malley progenies, consisting of ninety-six daughters and just one son named Jojo.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vlad.
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pause on the wedding photo of [=Ned McDodd=] and his wife, you'll notice that Ned [=McDodd=] looks identical to their son Jojo when he was younger.
** Look at the photos on the wall in Ned and Sally's bedroom, there's one where Ned is skiing with Jojo.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: The Kangaroo refuses to believe Whos live on the dust speck Horton guards and is against her son and other children "behaving like wild animals" and make-believing they have people on their dust speck clovers too. Going as far as to smash up her son's clover.
* GadgeteerGenius: Jojo has a natural talent for creating machines that make a lot of noise.
* {{Goth}}: Jojo shows some shades of this.
* GroinAttack: The mayor gets wedged between a door as a large fishbowl strikes him in the crotch.
** Which is to say nothing of what happens later during the Vlad chase. The Mayor rolls out onto his balcony, hits one of the railing pillars between his legs, then is shoved in further by his desk, a couch and a ''refrigerator''. Safe to say there probably won't be a 98th child.
* HeelFaceTurn: The Kangaroo and makes peace with Horton and the other animals by the end of the movie. Even Vlad to an extent goes through this at the end as well.
* HappilyAdopted: Horton the Elephant along with his brother Morton the blue mouse.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** "He has the nerve to call me a boob? I would never call somebody a boob. ''HE'S'' a boob!"
** Sour Kangaroo's claiming for [[ThinkOfTheChildren the children's safety]], then suddenly punting Katie out of the jungle.
* IgnoredExpert: The Mayor of Whoville.
* ILoveTheSmellOfXInTheMorning:
-->'''Horton:''' I love the smell of bananas in the morning!
* ImagineSpot: See ArtShift above.
* InkSuitActor: Downplayed. Horton doesn't ''exactly'' look like Jim Carrey here, but after he was cast, the more faithfully-designed Horton model was updated to include Carrey's expressive mouth.
* IronLady: Sour Kangaroo is the de-facto authority figure in the jungle of Nool, instead of the [[MoralGuardians moral guardian of the children]] she claims to be, quickly punishing anyone who defies her.
* JumpScare: Vlad's introduction.
** Made fun of later on when Horton thinks he's lost him:
--> '''Horton:''' ''(out of breath, panting)'' I just know he's gonna jump out somewhere.
--> '''Vlad:''' ''(right in front of him, softly)'' Hello.
--> '''Horton:''' ''(screams)''
* KarmaHoudini: Sour Kangaroo. WordOfGod says that in the movie she was originally going to get much better comeuppance in the form of all the other animals turning their back on her, but the writers decided to cut that out saying that "Dr. Seuss wasn't big on revenge".
* KnightTemplarParent: Mother Kangaroo.
* LargeHam: Subdued, compared to his other performances, but Jim Carrey as Horton.
* LaughablyEvil: Vlad, of course.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Watch the "We Are Here" chorus - if that's not the Grinch playing that tiny set of pan pipes, he's one heck of a doppelganger.
* LostInImitation: The films borrows some concepts from previous adaptations of the story:
** The mayor (or Dr. Hoovey in the 1970 special) trying to prove to the people of Whoville that life beyond their world exists, but is not believed and ridiculed by the citizens, which comes back to bite them later.
** The concept of Jojo being an AscendedExtra as the mayor's misunderstood son and the fact that Whoville [[spoiler: is somehow not damaged in the slightest from the the fall into the cloverpatch]] both come from ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', which uses this story as one of the main plots.
* MediumShiftGag: The previously AllCGICartoon briefly shifts into an {{Anime}} {{parody}} as Horton imagines himself as a ninja sworn to protect the tiny world on the clover.
** There's even a brief traditionally animated segment drawn in Dr. Seuss' style when Horton imagines a Who on the speck "calling for help".
* MyBelovedSmother: Sour Kangaroo is this to Rudy, refusing to let him leave her pouch. [[spoiler:Well, until the end of the film at least...]]
* MythologyGag: The abandoned clifftop observatory outside of Whoville strongly parallels the design of Eiffelberg Tower that Dr. Hoovey operated from, and [[spoiler:similarly ended up being the very spot where the last "Yopp!" needed was shot]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Rudy Kangaroo in the movie; his mother is still just "the Sour Kangaroo" or "Mother Kangaroo". Also Mayor Nedd [=McDodd=] and Jojo [=McDodd=] by relation.
* {{Narrator}}: Charles Osgood narrates the film.
* NerdsAreSexy: Dr. [=LaRue=].
* ObliviouslyEvil: While the Kangaroo is rather unambiguously cruel towards Horton, she ''honestly'' didn't realize that the speck ''did'' have living people inside of it.
* OddNameOut: Ninety-six of the Mayor's ninety-seven children all have names beginning with the letter H. Jojo, the Mayor's only son, is the OddNameOut.
* OneSteveLimit: There are two Vlads that Horton knows: one is an evil vulture, the other one is a bunny that bakes cookies. [[spoiler:They both actually exist.]]
* OnlySaneMan: In the movie, Rudy [the joey] and possibly Jojo as well.
* RecursiveReality: Horton discovers a whole world in a tiny dust speck. At one point in the film, Horton wonders whether the universe he inhabits could itself exist as a speck of dust to another universe.
* ResentfulOutnumberedSibling: The Mayor has ninety-six daughters, and only one son, Jojo. No wonder Jojo feels left out.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the original book the Mayor and Jojo are unrelated. Here, they are father and son.
* RhymingNames: Both Sally O'Malley and Dr. Mary Lou [=LaRue=].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Again, Katie.
* RopeBridge: Horton has to cross one on his way to Mt. Nool.
-->'''Horton''': This looks...kinda...precarious. Well, no need to worry. Obviously, when they build a bridge like this, they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.
* ShamingTheMob: Subverted, along with the RousingSpeech.
* ShoutOut: Several to various Dr. Seuss works.
** One Who has a blue hat similar to the one worn by Literature/TheCatInTheHat, as well as a few of The Cat's mannerisms (including a smaller version of himself underneath his hat).
** The Mayor and his family eat Literature/GreenEggsAndHam for breakfast.
** The city council seems to consist of [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinches]].
** Rudy's imaginary clover friend is named "Thidwick", a reference to the eponymous capreolid of ''Literature/ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose''.
** Mayor [=McDodd=] has a red fish as a pet in his office, possibly a reference to ''Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish'', or Carlos K. Krinklebein from ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat''.
** Several recognizable species can be seen amongst Nool's fauna, such as the Russian Palooski and Glummox seen in ''Literature/IfIRanTheZoo'' and the Zatz-it from ''On Beyond Zebra''.
** One of the portraits of past mayors was [[spoiler:[[CreatorCameo Dr. Seuss]]]] himself (specifically, the one of Ned's father)!
* SilentSnarker: Jojo, [[spoiler:up until [[SuddenlySpeaking he begins talking again]].]]
* StealthPun: In the original story, Vlad was described as a "black-bottomed eagle". Here, he looks more like a vulture, without feathers on his head. So wait, does that make him a [[spoiler:[[{{Pun}} bald eagle]]]]?
* StrawHypocrite: Sour Kangaroo, obviously cares more about putting down others than actually caring about [[ThinkOfTheChildren the children.]] It's followed by kicking Katie across the jungle.
* StylisticSuck: The music during Horton's {{Animesque}} ImagineSpot, which sounds like the soundtrack to a cheesy '70s kung-fu movie being played on a beat-up 8-track tape.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Jojo shouts "YOPP!", and finally speaking for the first time.
* SuddenMusicalEnding: And ''how.'' "[[Music/REOSpeedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling]]", out of nowhere.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At one point the Mayor tries to pop the inflated ball in an attempt to demonstrate how easy the world on the speck could explode. The key word is "tries": the tool he chose for that (a ball pen) is nowhere near sharp enough to pop the ball outright and only proceeds to puncture it, with air leaking out very slowly. And of course, it fails to convince the rest of Whoville about the incoming danger.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The Mayor constantly reassures the Doctor that he absolutely ''did not'' have a conversation with an elephant in the sky.
* TakeThat: The film takes a shot at home-schooling families by having the HateSink Sour Kangaroo boast about "pouch-schooling" her child.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: The kangaroo rallies all the other animals in the jungle against Horton with this cry.
* ToothyBird: Vlad Vladikoff, a toothy vulture.
* TotallyRadical:
** When the Mayor tries to relate to Jojo at the beginning of the film. It fails.
** Vlad Vladikoff also talks like this, when he's not being threatening.
* TravelingPipeBulge: This happens when Horton's voice first travels down the pipe to the mayor's office.
* TreeBuchet: How Horton gets rid of Vlad in the movie.
-->'''Horton:''' Sorry, [[OneLiner this is where we get off.]] ''(lets go of tree, catapulting Vlad away)'' Cool line. [[LampshadeHanging Usually I can't think of those until later.]]
* TremorTrampoline: Happens to the world of Whoville several times; after all, a small bump from Horton's perspective is a ''big'' bump from the Whos perspective.
** One time when it happened, was while a house was under construction; when everything was bounced skywards, the house came back down ''fully built''.
* UnlikelyHero: Although you can see it coming a mile away, the mopey, silent Jojo is, of course, the one who [[spoiler: comes through in the end]].
* VisualPun: Quite literally a gaggle of GossipyHens deride Horton.
* WhamShot:
** The reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a ''thousand-mile-wide'' patch of identical clovers. In the book, it's a simple page turn, while in the movie, it's a dramatic camera pan, and both hit the viewer smack in the face with that massive field of solid pink.
** The narrator revealing at the end that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, like Whoville, among numerous others, floating in outer space.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Subverted; the main villain is a kangaroo.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Jojo's main reason for never talking is that he thinks that if he does, then he'll disappoint his father.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kangaroo is actually a subversion. It's pretty obvious that she's enforcing her rules for the sake of her own ego instead of actually protecting anybody (She goes on about protecting the children, [[HypocriticalHumor then kicks Katie]] [[{{Jerkass}} clear across the jungle]]).
* WitchHunt: There's a bit of this in the 2008 movie as well.
--> '''Kangaroo:''' If the children hear stories about worlds beyond the jungle, they'll start to question authority! [[SlipperySlopeFallacy Which leads to defiance, which lead to ANARCHY!]]
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'''Horton:''' I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.\\
'''Morton:''' ''(sighs)'' An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.\\
'''Horton:''' That's my code, my motto.
''Horton Hears a Who!'' is a 2008 AllCGICartoon made by Creator/BlueSkyStudios that is an adaptation of the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho 1954 book of the same name]]. This is the first feature-length animated film adaptation of any Creator/DrSeuss book, after his estate swore off any more live-action adaptations after 2003's ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''.
Horton (Creator/JimCarrey) lives a normal life in the Jungle of Nool. One day, he finds a speck that he is certain contains an entire town called Whoville. In his attempts to have a conversation, he meets the Mayor of Whoville, an overworked and paranoid man named Ned [=McDodd=] (Creator/SteveCarrell), who, in the commotion of raising his 96 daughters, has left out his only son Jojo. Realizing they have a lot in common and knowing the stakes of saving the speck are, Horton must convince an unmoved jungle that this tiny speck has worth in saving while the Mayor must convince his town about the reality of their situation. They must pull it off before the Sour Kangaroo gets rid of the speck forever.
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!!The 2008 adaptation of ''Horton Hears a Who!'' provides examples of:
* {{Acrofatic}}: For an ''elephant'', Horton is ''quite'' graceful. He does a ''perfect swan dive'' into the river. He also climbs up a steep cliff.
* ActingOutADaydream: Horton imagines himself as an anime action hero and starts doing ninja moves in the real world.
* ActorAllusion: As with the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, Will Arnett appears in a Creator/BlueSkyStudios property as a sinister looking bird. Extra points for both of them being vultures.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** A {{downplayed}} case, but after the Whos are confirmed to exist on the speck, the other animals are visibly ''not'' happy at all with the Sour Kangaroo for assigning them to destroy it (especially given the more vindictive measures she took against Horton in this interpretation), leaving her shunned and remorseful until Horton shows her sympathy. In the book and special, the animals merely accept and celebrate the Whos with the kangaroo EasilyForgiven.
** PlayedForLaughs with the Mayor, who upon first hearing Horton, has trouble believing their co-existance, and upon finally realizing, essentially has a FreakOut.
* AdaptationExpansion: As necessary to make a short children's book into a feature-length movie.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Rudy. While in the book his character amounted to simply echoing his mother's "Humph," in the film he has a curious and skeptical personality regarding his mother's actions, [[spoiler:even being the one to personally save the clover from falling into the beezelnut oil.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Though his retains his stoic dedication and good heart, Horton, once a soft-spoken GentleGiant, is presented here as a spastic gag-machine (more accurately, [[InkSuitActor Jim Carrey in an elephant suit]]). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.]]
** In the book, the joey willingly agrees with his mother's belief that a civilization cannot exist on a tiny flower. In the film, the joey (named Rudy here) is more accepting of Horton's assertions, and does not like it when Sour Kangaroo (named Jane here) accuses Horton of being crazy.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Vlad goes from a "black-bottomed eagle" to a vulture.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original story, Sour Kangaroo was a WellIntentionedExtremist who was grumpy, but not really much of a villain. Here, she's a straight-up sadist who cares more about her own ego than the other jungle animals, and seems to have a lot more fun in torturing Horton than she should. Not to mention being portrayed as borderline abusive toward the children that she claims to be [[ThinkOfTheChildren protecting]].
** Look at the way the animals are cowering in fear of her at the beginning. Did she previously [[FridgeHorror abuse them in the past?]]
** And possibly genocidal (toward the Whos) as well. Notice how she tried to take the clover away from Horton ''even after she heard the Whos' "We are here".''
** [[FeatheredFiend Vlad Vladikoff]] as well. In the original story, he didn't have much of a role. He simply just carried the clover off and dropped it. In the film, on the other hand, he's upgraded to a genuinely terrifying, dangerous, and feared character, with [[ToothyBird sharp teeth]] and a sadistic sense of humor. Just look at his [[SlasherSmile gleeful grin]] when he tells Kangaroo to offer her son to him as food.
* AllLovingHero: Horton. He even forgives and makes peace with the Kangaroo, despite everything she's put him through.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The mayor's 96 daughters all have names that begin with H.
* ArtShift: Happens twice. The first time is a 2D animated sequence drawn completely in Seuss' distinctive style. The other is an {{animesque}} parody action sequence/daydream, complete with [[HongKongDub mouth movements that don't match up to the voices]].
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Morton warns Horton that Kangaroo has sent Vlad to destroy the clover.
--> '''Horton''': Is it the Bad Vlad or the Bunny Vlad that makes the cookies?\\
'''Morton''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah Horton. She's sending you a bunny with cookies]]. I think we can assume it's the Bad Vlad!
* TheAtoner: Horton [[EasilyForgiven makes his peace]] with [[spoiler: Sour Kangaroo having her VillainousBSOD, who in response gladly protects the Whos as much as he does.]]
* BackingAwaySlowly: At one point in the movie, Horton shouts, "I'm talking to the mayor!". However, because the mayor is invisibly small, a nearby bird is confused and slowly backs away.
* BigBad: The Kangaroo serves as this, hunting down Horton so she can make him admit that he's supposedly wrong about the speck having living people inside of it.
* BigLittleBrother: The mayor of Whoville is always the oldest child of the previous mayor of Whoville. The oldest child of the current mayor of Whoville, Jojo, is not only the smallest child, but also the smallest of his ENTIRE kind.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: The Mayor is at the dentist when an earthquake (caused by the speck the Whos all inhabit moving) occurs, and the Novocaine needle ends up in his arm, which remains limp and useless for some time afterward.
* BreakoutCharacter: Jojo quickly became the most popular character in the film adaptation.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The other Vlad]].
** And Burt from Accounting makes an appearance.
** On the rope bridge, Horton thinks that inhaling deeply will make him lighter. Near the end Katie inhales deeply... and ''floats away''.
* CallBack: Horton's catchphrase in the movie was, of course, imported from ''Horton Hatches the Egg''.
* CannotKeepASecret: Despite Morton's warnings, Horton cannot resist telling the children of Nool about the dust speck on his clover.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody in [=WhoVille=] believes the mayor when he tells them he can communicate with the mysterious voice in the sky named Horton or that something bad will happen to their world. [[spoiler: Until it's almost too late that is.]]
** Nobody in the Jungle of Nool believes Horton when he says there's a tiny village of Whos living on the dust speck he protects.
* CanonForeigner
** Morton the Mouse.
** Additional children are seen aside from Rudy. Horton starts the movie off tutoring the yak Katie, the bear Tommy, and the bird Jessica.
** Jessica's mother, Mrs. Quilligan, is a Russian Palooski who serves the same purpose Mrs. Toucanella did in the 1970 special. Tommy's father, Willie, also appears.
** All of the named Whos aside from Nedd and Jojo [=McDodd=].
** The other Vlad (the bunny one who bakes cookies).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** Katie. Her mind's really out there.
** Horton himself. Just the sheer fact that Horton is voiced by Creator/JimCarrey in the film qualifies him for this.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Horton's plan in the movie is to relocate the Whos to a safer place (since in the adaption [=WhoVille=] has somehow become unstable). Guess where he chooses? ''A mountain''. Colder climate. Less hospitable terrain. [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption Yes, he choose a mountain]]. Sour Kangaroo and her vacant pouch would have been a more sensible choice (and poetic, going from destroyer to protector of the Whos) after her [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-face turn]].
* CreepyChild: Katie in the movie. "Aaah..."
* CrowdSong: The end of the movie.
* CryingCritters: Happens twice in the movie, first Horton breaks down crying when he's searching for the Whos in the clover field, and second Vlad cries when he witnesses an emotional moment at the end.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: There are two Vlads living in Nool; one's a fiendish buzzard, the other a friendly bunny.
* DeathGlare: After the other animals finally hear the Whos, Sour Kangaroo still tries to rally them to continue the plan. They all shoot a very sharp one of these her direction, [[OhCrap promptly shutting her up]].
* DelayedOhCrap: Eventually Horton catches on to the angry mob.
-->'''Horton:''' Oh! I see! It's an angry mob! Coming right... for... (Starts getting it) Oh no...
* DisneyDeath: Inverted. After Vlad drops Horton's clover into a field of over 3,000,005 clovers, Horton manages to find his last clover, inside the speck where the entire Whoville is almost demolished by an impact. Luckily, the Mayor and the Whos survive.
* EasilyForgiven: The animals in the Jungle of Nool. Parodied when Horton says he couldn't have done it without their utter lack of support and naked aggression.
* EvilIsHammy: Vlad.
* ExplosiveBreeder: The [=McDodd=]-O'Malley progenies, consisting of ninety-six daughters and just one son named Jojo.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vlad.
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pause on the wedding photo of [=Ned McDodd=] and his wife, you'll notice that Ned [=McDodd=] looks identical to their son Jojo when he was younger.
** Look at the photos on the wall in Ned and Sally's bedroom, there's one where Ned is skiing with Jojo.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: The Kangaroo refuses to believe Whos live on the dust speck Horton guards and is against her son and other children "behaving like wild animals" and make-believing they have people on their dust speck clovers too. Going as far as to smash up her son's clover.
* GadgeteerGenius: Jojo has a natural talent for creating machines that make a lot of noise.
* {{Goth}}: Jojo shows some shades of this.
* GroinAttack: The mayor gets wedged between a door as a large fishbowl strikes him in the crotch.
** Which is to say nothing of what happens later during the Vlad chase. The Mayor rolls out onto his balcony, hits one of the railing pillars between his legs, then is shoved in further by his desk, a couch and a ''refrigerator''. Safe to say there probably won't be a 98th child.
* HeelFaceTurn: The Kangaroo and makes peace with Horton and the other animals by the end of the movie. Even Vlad to an extent goes through this at the end as well.
* HappilyAdopted: Horton the Elephant along with his brother Morton the blue mouse.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** "He has the nerve to call me a boob? I would never call somebody a boob. ''HE'S'' a boob!"
** Sour Kangaroo's claiming for [[ThinkOfTheChildren the children's safety]], then suddenly punting Katie out of the jungle.
* IgnoredExpert: The Mayor of Whoville.
* ILoveTheSmellOfXInTheMorning:
-->'''Horton:''' I love the smell of bananas in the morning!
* ImagineSpot: See ArtShift above.
* InkSuitActor: Downplayed. Horton doesn't ''exactly'' look like Jim Carrey here, but after he was cast, the more faithfully-designed Horton model was updated to include Carrey's expressive mouth.
* IronLady: Sour Kangaroo is the de-facto authority figure in the jungle of Nool, instead of the [[MoralGuardians moral guardian of the children]] she claims to be, quickly punishing anyone who defies her.
* JumpScare: Vlad's introduction.
** Made fun of later on when Horton thinks he's lost him:
--> '''Horton:''' ''(out of breath, panting)'' I just know he's gonna jump out somewhere.
--> '''Vlad:''' ''(right in front of him, softly)'' Hello.
--> '''Horton:''' ''(screams)''
* KarmaHoudini: Sour Kangaroo. WordOfGod says that in the movie she was originally going to get much better comeuppance in the form of all the other animals turning their back on her, but the writers decided to cut that out saying that "Dr. Seuss wasn't big on revenge".
* KnightTemplarParent: Mother Kangaroo.
* LargeHam: Subdued, compared to his other performances, but Jim Carrey as Horton.
* LaughablyEvil: Vlad, of course.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Watch the "We Are Here" chorus - if that's not the Grinch playing that tiny set of pan pipes, he's one heck of a doppelganger.
* LostInImitation: The films borrows some concepts from previous adaptations of the story:
** The mayor (or Dr. Hoovey in the 1970 special) trying to prove to the people of Whoville that life beyond their world exists, but is not believed and ridiculed by the citizens, which comes back to bite them later.
** The concept of Jojo being an AscendedExtra as the mayor's misunderstood son and the fact that Whoville [[spoiler: is somehow not damaged in the slightest from the the fall into the cloverpatch]] both come from ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', which uses this story as one of the main plots.
* MediumShiftGag: The previously AllCGICartoon briefly shifts into an {{Anime}} {{parody}} as Horton imagines himself as a ninja sworn to protect the tiny world on the clover.
** There's even a brief traditionally animated segment drawn in Dr. Seuss' style when Horton imagines a Who on the speck "calling for help".
* MyBelovedSmother: Sour Kangaroo is this to Rudy, refusing to let him leave her pouch. [[spoiler:Well, until the end of the film at least...]]
* MythologyGag: The abandoned clifftop observatory outside of Whoville strongly parallels the design of Eiffelberg Tower that Dr. Hoovey operated from, and [[spoiler:similarly ended up being the very spot where the last "Yopp!" needed was shot]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Rudy Kangaroo in the movie; his mother is still just "the Sour Kangaroo" or "Mother Kangaroo". Also Mayor Nedd [=McDodd=] and Jojo [=McDodd=] by relation.
* {{Narrator}}: Charles Osgood narrates the film.
* NerdsAreSexy: Dr. [=LaRue=].
* ObliviouslyEvil: While the Kangaroo is rather unambiguously cruel towards Horton, she ''honestly'' didn't realize that the speck ''did'' have living people inside of it.
* OddNameOut: Ninety-six of the Mayor's ninety-seven children all have names beginning with the letter H. Jojo, the Mayor's only son, is the OddNameOut.
* OneSteveLimit: There are two Vlads that Horton knows: one is an evil vulture, the other one is a bunny that bakes cookies. [[spoiler:They both actually exist.]]
* OnlySaneMan: In the movie, Rudy [the joey] and possibly Jojo as well.
* RecursiveReality: Horton discovers a whole world in a tiny dust speck. At one point in the film, Horton wonders whether the universe he inhabits could itself exist as a speck of dust to another universe.
* ResentfulOutnumberedSibling: The Mayor has ninety-six daughters, and only one son, Jojo. No wonder Jojo feels left out.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the original book the Mayor and Jojo are unrelated. Here, they are father and son.
* RhymingNames: Both Sally O'Malley and Dr. Mary Lou [=LaRue=].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Again, Katie.
* RopeBridge: Horton has to cross one on his way to Mt. Nool.
-->'''Horton''': This looks...kinda...precarious. Well, no need to worry. Obviously, when they build a bridge like this, they take into account that elephants will be crossing here.
* ShamingTheMob: Subverted, along with the RousingSpeech.
* ShoutOut: Several to various Dr. Seuss works.
** One Who has a blue hat similar to the one worn by Literature/TheCatInTheHat, as well as a few of The Cat's mannerisms (including a smaller version of himself underneath his hat).
** The Mayor and his family eat Literature/GreenEggsAndHam for breakfast.
** The city council seems to consist of [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinches]].
** Rudy's imaginary clover friend is named "Thidwick", a reference to the eponymous capreolid of ''Literature/ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose''.
** Mayor [=McDodd=] has a red fish as a pet in his office, possibly a reference to ''Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish'', or Carlos K. Krinklebein from ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat''.
** Several recognizable species can be seen amongst Nool's fauna, such as the Russian Palooski and Glummox seen in ''Literature/IfIRanTheZoo'' and the Zatz-it from ''On Beyond Zebra''.
** One of the portraits of past mayors was [[spoiler:[[CreatorCameo Dr. Seuss]]]] himself (specifically, the one of Ned's father)!
* SilentSnarker: Jojo, [[spoiler:up until [[SuddenlySpeaking he begins talking again]].]]
* StealthPun: In the original story, Vlad was described as a "black-bottomed eagle". Here, he looks more like a vulture, without feathers on his head. So wait, does that make him a [[spoiler:[[{{Pun}} bald eagle]]]]?
* StrawHypocrite: Sour Kangaroo, obviously cares more about putting down others than actually caring about [[ThinkOfTheChildren the children.]] It's followed by kicking Katie across the jungle.
* StylisticSuck: The music during Horton's {{Animesque}} ImagineSpot, which sounds like the soundtrack to a cheesy '70s kung-fu movie being played on a beat-up 8-track tape.
* SuddenlySpeaking: Jojo shouts "YOPP!", and finally speaking for the first time.
* SuddenMusicalEnding: And ''how.'' "[[Music/REOSpeedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling]]", out of nowhere.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At one point the Mayor tries to pop the inflated ball in an attempt to demonstrate how easy the world on the speck could explode. The key word is "tries": the tool he chose for that (a ball pen) is nowhere near sharp enough to pop the ball outright and only proceeds to puncture it, with air leaking out very slowly. And of course, it fails to convince the rest of Whoville about the incoming danger.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The Mayor constantly reassures the Doctor that he absolutely ''did not'' have a conversation with an elephant in the sky.
* TakeThat: The film takes a shot at home-schooling families by having the HateSink Sour Kangaroo boast about "pouch-schooling" her child.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: The kangaroo rallies all the other animals in the jungle against Horton with this cry.
* ToothyBird: Vlad Vladikoff, a toothy vulture.
* TotallyRadical:
** When the Mayor tries to relate to Jojo at the beginning of the film. It fails.
** Vlad Vladikoff also talks like this, when he's not being threatening.
* TravelingPipeBulge: This happens when Horton's voice first travels down the pipe to the mayor's office.
* TreeBuchet: How Horton gets rid of Vlad in the movie.
-->'''Horton:''' Sorry, [[OneLiner this is where we get off.]] ''(lets go of tree, catapulting Vlad away)'' Cool line. [[LampshadeHanging Usually I can't think of those until later.]]
* TremorTrampoline: Happens to the world of Whoville several times; after all, a small bump from Horton's perspective is a ''big'' bump from the Whos perspective.
** One time when it happened, was while a house was under construction; when everything was bounced skywards, the house came back down ''fully built''.
* UnlikelyHero: Although you can see it coming a mile away, the mopey, silent Jojo is, of course, the one who [[spoiler: comes through in the end]].
* VisualPun: Quite literally a gaggle of GossipyHens deride Horton.
* WhamShot:
** The reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a ''thousand-mile-wide'' patch of identical clovers. In the book, it's a simple page turn, while in the movie, it's a dramatic camera pan, and both hit the viewer smack in the face with that massive field of solid pink.
** The narrator revealing at the end that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, like Whoville, among numerous others, floating in outer space.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Subverted; the main villain is a kangaroo.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Jojo's main reason for never talking is that he thinks that if he does, then he'll disappoint his father.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kangaroo is actually a subversion. It's pretty obvious that she's enforcing her rules for the sake of her own ego instead of actually protecting anybody (She goes on about protecting the children, [[HypocriticalHumor then kicks Katie]] [[{{Jerkass}} clear across the jungle]]).
* WitchHunt: There's a bit of this in the 2008 movie as well.
--> '''Kangaroo:''' If the children hear stories about worlds beyond the jungle, they'll start to question authority! [[SlipperySlopeFallacy Which leads to defiance, which lead to ANARCHY!]]
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