Peter Lind Hayes,
Mary Healy,
Hans Conried,
Tommy Rettig,
John Heasley
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Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote and helped design this eccentric fantasy about a young boy named Bart (Tommy Rettig) who, like most young boys, doesn't enjoy his piano lessons with the me... read more
DVD Release Date: April 24, 2001
Stats: 214 reviews
This is an odd movie, but it's based on a Dr. Seuss book, so this movie does a good job representing that. Overall the style is good, but the actors and songs aren't so great.
Dr Suess wrote the screenplay and lyrics, and clearly had a hand in designing the sets...but this movie is still a weird and kind of hard to get into fantasy film. I would definitely say it i worth a look, and quite frankly I'd like to see it again sometime, for I do love Dr. Su... read more
Great kids film. The "fight" scene's choreography is downright hypnotic. I had no idea there was a Dr. Seuss musical.
A very fun and creative story that is backed up with a fun cast that really puts you into the mind of dr. suess
So THIS is what it feels like to be on drugs! Quite a few screen caps can be used for a NAMBLA poster. You really wonder what Dr. Seuss was thinking.....
I personally like this film a lot. I think Willy Wonka borrowed a lot of ideas from it. It was hilarious in some parts and really showed how great movies were 50 years ago or more. They really put their imagination into it, instead of these movies that come out every year that ha... read more
The only screenplay written by Dr. Seuss--with a production design carefully crafted in the "Dr. Seuss style" this hysterical film is well worth your time. HIGHLY recommended.
The bizarre dream world of a mad piano genius/gestapo leader. Very entertaining, if not always great. Is part of my discovery of the world of musicals. The symphony of instruments in the middle is probably the most entertaining part.
It IS as bizarre as it sounds. I think it's cool becasue of novelty reasons.....Dr. Seuss did the set decoration. No, i'm not kidding. He really did.
I felt traumatized from watching this movie. The friend who recomended it afterward sat rocking back and forth for five minutes, oblivious to outside stimuli, saying to himself, "It wasn't my fault. It wan't my fault. It wasn't my fault."
The rebelliousness that turns out to be good, old-fashioned anti-intellectualism feels less in line with the good Doctor's Whoville than with producer Stanley Kramer's Hackville Full Review
It's as imaginatively framed as Alice in Wonderland. Full Review
Inexplicably, this marvelous musical fantasy flopped at the box office. Full Review
One day I may understand all the fuss over this.
All this film really needs is one raised finger...
I recommend it to people of all ages IF they can be young at heart. Full Review
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