I HATE The Lorax 

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They should have made Audrey the main character. She's the one interested in trees, she's the one who has a reason to venture outside the town and search for answers

"I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees Litter again, and I'll break your knees"

He HATES the lorax

The Lorax didn’t even get a song. Or a PART in a song. The representation of nature itself was more comedic relief than an actual main character.

I will forever be upset that we didn't get "Biggering" in the final cut. It would have made the story so much better and would have had some of the actual moral of the story in it.

Illumination literally partnered with a car company to make an ad with the lorax in it. That sums up the quality of this movie.

My favorite part of this movie was they did a car commercial saying it was “Lorax approved” A movie about saving the environment promoted cars

What I never understood was why he didn’t re-plant the trees in the first place. Like he did not have a good business plan 😂 Edit: lmao why has the Lorax given me the most comment likes I’ve ever had lmao 🤦‍♂️

It would have been so much more endearing and thematic if Audrey was the one who ventured out to see the oncler, she's literally the ONLY person who cared a whole awful lot

RIP Biggering. You will be best villain song in any animated movie. Imo, Danny DeVito as The Lorax is perfect casting. Don't forget the Onceler simps, and Pamtri doing a better version of The Lorax 2012, cuz the Lorfax speaks for the tres.

Truth be told, I've always hated what they ended up doing with the Once-Ler, they took one of Dr. Seuss' most compelling and nuanced villains of all time and basically made it to where it was his family were the ones that forced him to overharvest the Truffula trees and practically absolved him of blame, Whereas in the original story and animated special made in the 70's, The Once-ler constantly questions if at any point he should stop and argues with himself but he always makes excuses for why he should press on with his production of Thneeds and its only then when the last of the trees fall that he realizes that he's made a terrible mistake which is why when the film gets to that point, it feels hollow and unearned.

There’s a deleted song in the Lorax called “Biggering” it’s about the Oncler’s pride, how he doesn’t care about the forest and that he wants more things.

Seems like you're jealous because you can't speak for the trees

Fun fact: instead of “How Bad Could I Possibly Be?” The movie was originally going to have a song called biggering. The song was actually really good and interesting and told a better story than the other song. Unfortunately the producers thought that biggering was too scary for kids so they didn’t use it

The amount of times they made us watch this in my high school geography classes is INSANE

This movie was a huge part of my childhood. Specifically when I was around 6, I was in hospital and my dad bought this movie on dvd and put it on for me on my Monster High dvd player. A very good memory in my life

The deleted song "Biggering" is not only a banger but an amazing villain song and the TRUE message of The Lorax, with greed successfully transforming The Onceler. This could have been a great movie that was faithful to the source, but Illumination neutered it to "play it safe."

Can we all give a moment of silence for the song “Biggering”? It makes me so sad that it never came to be 😔😭 And the song that replaced it………💀

I always thought the cartoons from the 60s did Seuss stories right. It's just an animated retelling of the book. The Butter Battle is a personal fav

The marshmallow scene was to explain why the animals of nature allowed him to hang around instead of following through with chasing him off... so it has a purpose I mean it's either marshmallows or he goes the realistic route and starts killing them until they let him take "some" trees because even kids know that the animals of nature are not harmless defenseless angels

I was a huge Dr. Seuss fan as a kid. I used to read as many of those books as possible, and The Lorax was one of my favorites (also Butter Battle and Yertle The Turtle). I like the Lorax as a character in the movie, Danny Devito is awesome casting, but that's it... I really disliked how they bloated such a simple effective story. All you need is in the book, so why not just make an animated short film highlighting the visuals and sounds - which Seuss was good at, dude loved onomatopoeias

The movie WALL-E handles the topic of pollution and climate change so much better than The Lorax in my opinion

In defence, ted starts off, wanting to get with Taylor swift but then realises that he should just do this act just for that

Honestly surprised you didnt mention the whole Tumblr Fiasco with this movie lol

I'm glad once the Onceler simping died down, everyone started realizing how bad the film actually was, and I think Biggering helped

Dr Seuss: Lorax is not a powerful force of nature, he's just a being that wants to stop humanity and their selfishness, and once-ler can be anyone, not a guy, just anyone anywhere. Illumination: "👩‍🦰👈👨‍🦰That's a woman??"

The concept is even more absurd if you think of the whole timeline of this movie, the trees were around when the onceler was in 20s or so, he then cut down all of the trees and EVERYONE forgot about trees when the onceler is older, presumably in his 60s-70s. So that means this whole story happens in about a 50 year span, which is ridiculous

Every time I watched this as a kid I was always confused why they didn't just cut some tufts from each tree instead of cutting all the trees down... I now realize that movie needs to movie so that's actually not possible.

You mention the irony of a company like Illumination making this movie, and I feel like some of the production adds another layer to that. “Biggering”, the song proposed for this movie before being remade into “How Bad Can I Be”, is genuinely one of the best songs I’ve ever heard written for a kids’ movie. There was definitely some sort of passion somewhere at some point when making this movie, but Illumination rejected the song and and sanitized other aspects of the movie to make it more marketable. They actively tore down something great for something that would make them more money. The very existence of this movie is a contradiction to everything it’s supposed to stand for.

There’s a lot wrong with this film. Most of it rooted in the hypocrisy of the studio itself endorsing many environmentally damaging products in an act of irony so thick you could bludgeon the onceler to death with it. However personally I feel the greatest tragedy of this film was the removal of the song “biggering”. I mean that’s a bop. Why would you remove it? It’s cause of the hypocrisy isn’t it?

Always loved the ending quote of the movie. "Unless someone like you cares an whole awful lot, nothing is going to change, its not."

"Stop it...." "Those trees over there?" " *Stop it* "

My mom has never finished this movie. She falls asleep and wakes up at the exact same parts every time it's on. It's also the most popular senior quote my high school had when this movie came out. Anyways, great video and Aloha from Hawaii!

Not matter what people say about this movie, it will always be very special to me. The Lorax was the last movie that my Great Grandmother and I saw together in theaters. Her and I would always go and see movies together, it was our thing. We would laugh together and just enjoy being with each other. I never knew that when I was younger while she was laughing with me, she was fighting cancer. I remember driving to 7-11 in her little red car and getting snacks before we went to the movies together and saw this movie. It was normal to me then, but it’s special to me now because she’s gone. That was the last time we got to go to the movies together and I will cherish that memory forever. I love you Nana💕

He looks like he hasn’t slept in four days because of this movie

Shame that the song "How bad can i be?" took the place of "Biggering". Biggering goes HARD

Biggering is on my phone and played regularly. I haven't watched the film since it was released. I had it on DVD and I gave it to a neighbor child when I moved to lighten my load

What I never understood was why he didn’t re-plant the trees in the first place. Like he did not have a good business plan 😂

Guys, I don’t think he likes the lorax.

yeah I guess a gripe I have about the story is that the onceler had all the money to make machines to chop trees, yet he didn't think of making machines to harvest the tufts faster

Biggering will forever be the best song that came from this movie even if it wasn’t in the final project. I accept no other answer.

The irony of telling about how evil "capitalism" is and then using capitalism. Capitalism isn't evil, what's evil is how people use capitalism. Capitalism is just a tool. Choosing to kill someone with a kitchen knife is evil, not the tool being used.

There was a song that was good from this film, but it wasn't in the film itself. It's called "Biggering" and it was SO much better than "How badadadad can I be?".

Who else wishes we got the original concept for the Onceler's song called Biggering?

I remember crushing on onceler hard when I was young. I didn't know about all the multiverse shipping on tumblr until I recently butI would have loved it. That was the only thing I liked about the movie.

Idc what anyone says this movie has a special place in my heart

The opening song scene of this movie was an assault on my senses.

I saw it in theaters, but not by choice. Our school took us to go see it when it came out because it was this big thing with schools. Since it was about environmentalism and caring about the earth, it was pushed on my school like those "Got Milk" posters. I am curious how many other schools did that when it came out. I wander what amount of the $349 million came from schools and children care programs taking kids to this

NGL, when I was a kid I thought the Girl the protag is going for was pretty af.

You know I think instead of using “how bad can I be” they should’ve use the other song called “biggering” it had more to it and I think if that song was in there I would’ve returned to watch the movie. They didn’t add it due to the fact that yk their also a evil company and it sounds like illumination is talking about themself I believe

In the cartoon short made based on the story, there were many moments where the Onceler grappled with himself about the choices he was making, and he discussed these things with the Lorax. He convinced himself that certain things had to be certain ways because that’s how the solution has always been found in the past, and brought up legitimate concerns such as the lives of his employees, things that business owners who do actually care have to consider. Everything happened gradually, not just in a single music number. This movie throws out all of the nuance, the message of trying to find better ways that benefit people and the planet, for… just bad.

Honestly, "The Lorax" (mostly the book) sometimes reminds me of "FernGully: The Last Rainforest". Though I wouldn't say it delivers a better story than "The Lorax" but still it's just as enjoyable and it has a way more ig diverse set of characters/cast. I loved "FernGully" as a kid and I just recently found it today and rewatched it. Nostalgia hit me like a wave.

This movie robbed us of what could have been one of the greatest villain songs of all time, by replacing "Biggering" with "How Bad Can I Be?". A power metal banger about how money and power can twist a person into destroying all around them. Most people have probably heard it by now, but check it out if you haven't. They fully recorded it and released it on the official soundtrack (thankfully).

Biggering deserves a better movie

You should really listen to the cancelled music for this movie. Biggering is a great villain song, and the soundtrack is just great.

the thing I hate most about the Lorax is it COULD have been good, the orignal proposed soundtrack was actually about important stuff and was a lot more serious and instead we got this mess

It’s not just about that It’s deeper than that If a person like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better it’s not We ALL need to care, we don’t tho

couple of things: 1. i always thought the bottled air thing was in reference to how people originally reacted to the concept of bottled water, which seemed wild and unnecessary a few decades ago. and 2. i like the interpretation of the book that “unless someone like you…” the “you” referred to the onceler. the idea that unless someone in charge of these big companies decides to actually give a shit, nothings going to get better. it def makes more sense than telling an individual child with no real power to have to clean up a mess they didn’t make and have no ability to stop.

HELP THE TUMBLR ONCELERS ARE COMING FOR YOU

I‘m honest, I didn’t had a single memory about this movie but I still love how you just talk about feelings you have while watching it, and then my memory of it was suddenly completely there, keep up with your content here

i love how you hate on all the songs except "how bad can i be' 💀💀 also the Oncler is hot dude

Maybe "Biggering" wouldn't have saved this movie, but it definitely would have improved it

Here to say that I am ashamed to be one of the girlies who had a crush on this movie's Onceler. 🤦

I quote "let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and die" daily.

Sucks that they had some cool ideas but were forced to change it. Also thought O Hara coulda just been trying to save what’s left of everything. Hell, point out plants are living beings and cannot live without us the same way we can’t without them. How do they even have any recourses?

The town people don’t hate nature. Don’t know where you got that from. The point was that all the artificial stuff is the only nature they know and it’s easier to maintain

As someone who has seen this movie anout 6 times a day thx to a 1yr old. You cloudve critiqued yhis alot better best character is grandma, its been less than a century, the big red button is for matenence inside the wall Ted just uses it to get out. The scene where the mom kicks him out is brilliant shes all omg its the mayor until he both invades and puts his hands on Ted then its momma bear mode. The people are easily swayed because of their environment deadass. They know shits fucked up THEYRE PAYING FOR AIR and that kid Wesley glows. They no shits a bit fucked. Ted NEEDED to break that wall. With a whole civilization thats as easily swayed as that they NEED to see whats actually going on they NEED to see the truth. They probably knew shit outside was wack. But actually seeing it wouldve changed my mind on no trees real quick too. And they live in a plastic world with robottic animals for christ sakea theyve never seen actual autumn never felt or smelt real trees. Being told they are disgusting without knowing would turn me off too. Im sorry but the lorax is a great movie. Even the progression of How bad csn I be? His family doing away with all the things in the background. THE GRANDMA CAMEO DURING THE PAPARAZZI PART. If feels like your videos are genuinely getting worse.

Only good thing that came out of Illumination´s Lorax was the: "You greedy dirtbag in 42 languages" video, that I might have watched over and over

i like how the main character goes through all the work of listening to the story and getting beaten around just to bang a girl

Honestly, I think it goes deeper in the fact that so many companies have convinced us that we need to buy food. Not make our own. And drink their water. Not find our own. And all sorts of other things like that. It makes a lot of sense. Very very ironic

They already made an animated version. A hand drawn animation. In 1972. With Dr. Seuss HIMSELF writing the screenplay. Why did Illumination waste everyone’s time and money with this crap!?

I was hoping you would bring up the original song Biggering!

Heyo BionicPIG - I would love to see your opinion on the deleted song "Biggering." Cause honestly, in a parallel universe where this song existed in the film instead of "How Bad Can I Be?," the film may have actually been watchable.

Despite the issues with this movie that I have noticed over the years and what other people have noticed, I still absolutely love this movie. I have a lot of nostalgia for this movie since I was 9 when it was released and I appreciate the message that it has. Plus 'How Bad Can I Be' is the best song in the movie and still freaking slaps, I don't even care what y'all say lol. I do however wish that they did put the song 'Biggering' in there instead, that's even better.

The Lorax is a horror movie.

I will never forget seeing a car ad for this movie. The most brain dead advertisement you could possibly choose

At least the voice acting and the cast wasn’t terrible imo

Would love to see a further exploration (correlation?) of animated movies overhyped to success fueled by peak 2010's Tumblr with shipping simp armies. I remember wars fought over "The Big Four" (i.e. Rise of the Guardians, Rapunzel, How to Train Your Dragon, and Frozen) pairings. (And speaking of ships, gotta say Onceler shipped with himself was one of the strangest things I saw had a massive following.)

This movie has lived rent free in my mind for years... Thanks pig for helping me understand why 😂 time to find a new tenenant 🤔

they should have made the Lorax a rock-opera with the song biggering in it

Hey biopiggy, not sure if you've ever seen it but you should watch The Borrowers (1997 I believe). It's kinda like honey I shrunk the kids and Matilda combined. Definitely a classic! Would make a good review.

16:40 best part of the video, at least for me...who actually liked the movie a lot more lol but some solid points were made, i was a kid enthralled by the colors and music

The story behind how this movie was gonna be made initially it very interesting! You should definitely check that out I love the song "Biggering" it would've been really nice hearing this song in the movie. So much artistic concepts got crushed down because it was having to much of an "anti-capitalist" message, and the higher-ups didn't like that it's such a shame The Lorax couldn't get a better adaptation :/

Can't believe he didn't talk about the Biggering, the cut song that should be there in place of How Bad Can I Be.

A sequel? I just ... what can they do with that? The story has been told. I just ... and I thought Toy Story 5 was a dumb idea but a continuation of the Lorax. Where can we go? Avatar: The Way of Water?

have you Read the Book, or have Watched the 1972 Version?

This movie ruins the great simplicity of the Lorax tale. The Onceler is never shown, because it's not important. It's not a character, it's us, every single one of us greedy, needy, apparence-obsessed, consumeristic people. There is no bad guy to pin the death of nature on, it's everyone's fault. It's a great moral that sensitizes the young reader into caring about his own environment, the movie fucks up this simple message so badly it's almost comical.

there's an unused demo song for the onceler called biggering. the fact they didn't use it makes sense because it directly calls out everything wrong with corporations and greed

Its ironic we didn't get Biggering in the final movie, it goes so much harder than what we got

Biggering > How Bad Can I Be I swear, the moment I heard the song, I was livid it wasn't the villain song we got. It would've added so much to the film, and probably easily could've competed with the likes of Disney in their track record of fantastic villain songs. Whoever decided to scrap it should be stocked by a little orange gremlin with a robust New Yorker voice.

This movie should’ve followed the Onceler as an ambitious and cunning youth turned into a businessman and shown him as he destroyed the environment for glory and greed. Only to discover that his joy and glory was temporary as people moved on, leaving the environment destroyed and himself washed-up. Dead animals and plants, gray sky, bad air and water, etc. And then have Audrey show up in his darkest hour and want to learn about trees in Thneedville, now cornered by O’Hare’s products and consumerism. And he entrusts the last seed to her.

THaTs A wOmEN

Wait until Pig learns about the onceler fandom on Tumblr... that was a dark time

I watched this when i was in college. I liked it LOL now i watch this and still like it, just cause im a sucker for mindless things.

If there’s one movie Illumination should re-make it’s definitely this one. The reason why Illumination needs to is because they have the rights to Biggering.

The original animation for the Lorax will always be superior

I was expecting him to bring up the song that was originally going to be played instead of "How Bad Can I Be"

Mom, can we have Wall:E No honey, we have Wall:E at home ....Wall:E at home "The Lorax"

I love that this movie expects you to be sad that the outside world is absolutely ruined when the wall gets destroyed... as if they weren't singing about how happy they are that their town is made of plastic in the beginning of the movie