I said what I meant and I meant what I said. I am tired of the katherine hepburn impersonations in these cartoons really I am. Peter Lorre impersonations are also made in many cartoons from the thirties and forties. Others include the marx brothers and Laurel and Hardy. Come on impersonate some other celebrities or do not do it at all. Why kill yourself if you've seen everything. Also you cannot really see everything. You could spend a life time and what you've seen would still be almost negliglble. That joke has been done many times before in the thirties also. What a lazy bird. What's with the rhyming Dr Zeuss? Some are really unnecessary. Oh well at least not everything was being rhymed with everything else or it would just be weird. Not the best Dr Zeuss inspired cartoon. The ending is just ridiculous. This is my opinion but some may find it cute and charming there is nothing wrong with that. That is not the case with me.

I watched this on 'The Best of Dr. Seuss' DVD, which also includes 'Daisy-Head Mayzie' and 'The Butter Battle Book.' The first time I watched this I gave it a 7/10 but after a second viewing, I gave it an 8/10 due to enjoying it more, which is why it gave me the same feelings as 'Igor' due to initially given it a 7 but an 8 the second time I saw it due to enjoying it a lot more.The animation is smooth but typically matches the style of other Looney Tunes cartoons rather than Dr. Seuss' illustrations, which is unusual, but the backgrounds were beautifully coloured with intricate detail. Horton looked most like a Dr. Seuss character and I like his saying, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100%." The flying elephant that hatches from the egg Is cute while Masie the bird was strict and overprotective. I liked the musical score with a touch of nostalgia as well as Horton's walking matching some of the notes. The rhyming narrative was as exquisite as always.Overall this is my second favourite short on 'The Best of Dr. Seuss' and it is nearly on par with the 2008 CGI film adaptation of 'Horton Hears A Who!'

Every animation fan is well aware of Chuck Jones's Christmas classic 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas', a seasonal staple based on the classic story by Dr. Seuss. However, fewer people are aware of Bob Clampett's adaptation of a Seuss story, 'Horton Hatches the Egg', which predates Jones's effort by a couple of decades. Out of all the Warner Bros. directors, Clampett is arguably the most obvious choice as the ideal person to adapt Seuss's surreal tales and he more than proves himself with 'Horton Hatches the Egg'. Both the genius of Clampett and of Seuss shine through as Clampett deftly weaves his own edgy, grotesque humour into Seuss's friendlier tomfoolery. Exceptional wordplay (rhyming "it doesn't make sense" with "I'm so immense" is merely the tip of the iceberg) and brightly coloured characters and settings collide with Hollywood caricatures, indelible images and off-colour jokes about backsides, sea-sickness and characters shooting themselves in the head! Clocking in at just under ten minutes, 'Horton Hatches the Egg' is longer than the average Merrie Melodie but if anything it leaves the viewer begging for even more. It's truly a shame that there were no further Clampett/Seuss collaborations as it is clearly a match made in heaven. 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' may be the recognised classic but 'Horton Hatches the Egg' deserves to be as widely celebrated and its egg-based narrative makes it ideal for the Easter schedules. If only these gorgeous cartoons weren't so rapidly disappearing from our screens, perhaps 'Horton Hatches the Egg' (along with hundreds of other classics) might be rediscovered by a whole new generation. In the meantime, you can get your hands on this charming short on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume 6 DVD.

Directed by Bob Clampett and scripted by the great Warner Brothers storyman Michael Maltese, this animated version is very faithful to the 1940 story about Horton the earnest elephant, but has a few added embellishments. Call it an irreverent version for adults.The story begins with a lazy mother bird who longs to go on vacation. She needs to attract Horton so he'll sit on her egg for her. So she pushes her stomach upwards to give herself really big ...Horton keeps the egg warm during a torrential storm -- that's in Seuss -- getting submerged and nearly drowning -- that's in Clampett.Three hunters discover Horton perched on the egg and aim straight at his heart. Only in this version it's Horton's jumbo-sized posterior they actually get in their sights. In Seuss, the hunters are gentlefolk nattily done up in bowties; in Clampett, they're coiffed in a style more befitting Yosemite Sam.Horton is captured and taken across the sea to be exhibited in New York. The sight of Horton at sea is so startling that a fish, who looks and sounds just like Peter Lorre, shoots himself in the head.Dr. Seuss's story ends happily, with Horton returned safely to his jungle home. Clampett's story also ends happily, with Horton earning big money for promoters.The Warners team succeeded in reproducing Dr. Seuss's distinctive artistic style but added a full range of colour to his limited palette. A couple of scenes also have what appear to be watercolour backgrounds -- very nice. A little added touch to an already beautiful-looking, one-of-a-kind cartoon.