Horton is a nice, friendly elephant by all accounts. Voiced by funny man Jim Carrey, one day while out about his business (whatever business an elephant happens to have) Horton thinks he hears voices coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air.
Of course all the other animals think Horton has gone mad and they tease the life out of him.
And although Horton doesn't know it yet, that speck that he is hearing the voices from houses an entire city named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor.
Inside the city the Whos, who claim to hear Horton talking, are also ridiculed by the others in their world.
No matter what eternal optimist Horton is determined to save the particle because, as he says, "a person's a person, no matter how small."
'Horton Hears a Who' is directed by Jimmy Hayward and comes from the people who brought you 'Ice Age' - although this film is said to be vastly superior to that animated adventure.
Without doubt Horton is the most loveable lead elephant since Dumbo and this film looks set to be a family classic with enough to appeal to the mummies and daddies who take their little charges along to learn about Horton, the Whos, nature and humanity.
10,000 BC
Think 'Independence Day'. Think 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Think destruction of major cities and civilisation under threat.
Thinking about all these things you are now thinking in the manner of director Roland Emmerich, who this week brings '10,000BC' to the silver screen near you.
This is an special effects movie and no mistake and, in actual fact there isn't a whole pile else here except close on two hours of ever more amazing special effects. The star of this movie (apart from the special effects) is a young hunter called D'Leh - played by Steven Strait - who is part of the ancient Yaghal mountain tribe.
This is a time when men wore animal hides, fought with weapons they made themselves and talked with slightly strange accents.
The Yaghals are under attack from a band of slave raiders on horseback who capture D'Leh's girlfriend Evolet (Camilla Belle) and force him to go and save her.
Accompanied by a small group of the fiercest warriors they set off to save the damsel in distress. However, if appears Evolet is a troublesome girl and rather than helping the situation she stumbles from one peril to another hindering any attempt to free her from her captors.
The great thing about a CGI (computer generated imagery) film is that you can create any character you like and here Emmerich creates a whole host of prehistoric creatures - from big birds to woolly mammoths up to an including a mythical sabre toothed tiger who befriends our hero rather than eating him.
None of these creature look particularly real but there's nothing much we can do about that.
'10,000BC' features a lot of battle sequences but none of the same calibre, or with the same blood letting as the recent '300'.
Director Roland Emmerich is a man for the big movie and with movies such as 'ID4' and 'Day after Tomorrow' on his CV you could well expect this to be very worthy indeed.
Whether or not it appeals to local audiences is yet to be seen.
