All of this is set in an ever-expanding Seuss-inspired world filled with color, texture, and whimsy. Eddie Izzard voices a subtly Trumpian character - with a mound of living, brassy hair - who collects animals for sport. Guy is a failed tinkerer whose inventions all explode he’s going to have to take a job as a paint-watcher because his ideas aren’t paying the bills. There’s an endangered creature called a chickaraffe who is busted out of the zoo. The basics of the series are the same: Sam-I-Am (Adam Devine) is still the optimistic fan of the verdant breakfast dish, who wants to eat it here, there, and everywhere Guy-Am-I (Michael Douglas) is his curmudgeonly companion who is not feeling it.īut then the plot explodes. Netflix’s “Green Eggs and Ham,” created by Jared Stern, accomplishes this as well, while also expanding the world of the original book (which famously only used a vocabulary of 50 words) in really clever ways to craft a 13-episode adventure. Seuss), the adaptation was true to the original’s heart and illustration-style. That’s one reason that the 1966 “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” movie played so well thanks to involvement by Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss’ books hold such meaning for generations of young readers and their parents that it’s important to note how hard it is to translate his work into film - especially when deviating from the words and plot in the source material. I know it may seem odd to start a review of a new streaming show by trashing a movie that’s over a decade old, but I think Dr. Seuss’ widow, said she would not allow any further live-action adaptations of her husband's works. It’s not surprising that in 2004, Audrey Geisel, Dr. To borrow from another adaptation of a beloved children’s book, just thinking about that movie instinctively conjures images of Arthur’s clenched fist for me. It also marked the creation of the The Spencer Breslin Award (Worst Performance by a Child Actor), which was awarded to - you guessed it - Spencer Breslin, who played Conrad Walden, one of the kids babysat by the cat. Packed with an uncomfortable amount of innuendo and bizarre turns by Mike Meyers, who played the title character in a full-on catsuit, it went on to win a number of awards like the Golden Raspberry for Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content) and Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More Than $100 Million Worldwide. In 2003, the vaguely Seussian hellscape known as the live-action “The Cat in the Hat” film adaptation was released.

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