It's especially baffling with the Dr Seuss books, or the forthcoming Where The Wild Things Are - they could make shorts from those books (and I remember some animated ones which were OK), but features?

I did need companionship and alcohol to face down this turkey; between us we came up with a whole alternate story in which the Old Ones were all paedophiles, which improved it no end. Dear heavens but the pseudo-Will was annoying.