Seated behind me at a critics’ screening of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! were a well-known movie reviewer and her date, a young child. At the end the child, audibly in rapture, asked, “Did you love ...

"Horton Hears a Who!" is the best cartoon ever to come out of Blue Sky Studios, the animation house that produced the "Ice Age" blockbusters. And for that, Fox and Blue Sky have Dr. Seuss to thank.

Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it’s not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world. ‘‘Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!’’ succeeds to a point ...