The Sneetches (Film)

The Sneetches is an American traditional hand-drawn 2D animated musical fantasy comedy film based on the children's book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. The second adaptation of the book (following the 1973 animated television special).

Plot
On a glorious beach, a group of yellow bird-like creatures called the Sneetches have a green star on their bellies. At the beginning of the film, Sneetches with stars discriminate against and shun those without. An entrepreneur named Sylvester McMonkey McBean (calling himself the Fix-It-Up Chappie) appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to get them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their special status. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next...

This continues until the Sneetches are penniless and McBean departs as a rich man, amused by their folly. Despite his assertion that "you can't teach a Sneetch", the Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends. "The Sneetches" was intended by Seuss as a satire of discrimination between races and cultures, and was specifically inspired by his opposition to antisemitism.

Quotes

 * Narrator: Yes, every Star-Bellied Sneetches have bellies with stars. But the Plain-Bellied Sneetches had none upon thars. Those stars weren't so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldn't matter at all.