I'm sorry, but when it comes to Dr. Seuss, I'm definitely a purist. It couldn't be any other way having grown up with so many great childhood memories of reading his books — or having them read to me — over and over.

When it comes to the movie versions of his books, it often seems like the people making them just don't get it. I mean, Mike Myers in cat makeup and lots of ephemeral pop-culture jokes? No. Wrong. That's like taking a wonderful, simple pizza margherita and turning it into one of those misguided concoctions with corn and pineapple on top, and sweaty hot-dog bits lurking amid an ooze of cheesy crust.

But I digress. The best Dr. Seuss adaptations are the ones that stick closest to his works, his world. It's got to have his rhyming verse, or it only ends up sounding worse. Ditto for his illustrations; actors don't feel like his creations.