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Published: March 14, 2008
Whoville's pachyderm protector gets padding aplenty in ‘Horton'
By Brandy McDonnell
With their whimsical characters and dictionary-defying turns of phrase, Dr. Seuss ' wildly imaginative children's books seem like fertile ground for filmmaking. But adapting one of Theodore Geisel 's slim volumes into a feature-length film requires turning the elegantly simple into the outrageously complicated.

Blue Sky Studios , the creative team behind the "Ice Age” films, gives Geisel's famous elephant plenty o...

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