'Horton Hears a Who' isn't bad

Directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino

Rated G

(Two Stars)

By Bruce Bulloch

Before you snuggle down in your theater seat to watch "Horton Hears a Who," you should ask yourself a very important question.

Do you like green eggs and ham?

I know I'm mixing up Dr. Seuss stories a bit, but the question remains essential. Are you a purist who prefers the classics - breakfast or otherwise - in their original form? Or, are you the sort of literary libertine who sees the original book as merely source material for whatever whimsy strikes an artist making his own adaptation?

Horton, of course, has been animated before. But this time he has been transported into the parallel universe of computer animation and changes to Horton's rhyme-riven little world abound. To begin with, there's Horton himself, who has been inflated into a squiggly, latex balloon of a 3-D character and lost a few IQ points in the process. The original Horton was na