Does the New Lorax Speak for the Trees, or the SUVs?

Even though “The Lorax” has yet to open to the public, it’s a movie that has ruffled a lot of feathers. Some claim it’s leftist eco-propaganda and others claiming that, with its 70-plus product tie-ins, it’s capitalistic garbage. Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and co-host of the Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast, saw the film this week and is here to weigh in.
Dr. Charles Cohen is a Dr. Seuss enthusiast and scholar, and helped bring several of Dr. Seuss’s lost stories to the public last year in the collection “The Bippolo Seed and other Lost Stories,” which is still on The New York Times bestseller list.