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Mar 30, 2019 · At the end of Disney's 1941 animated "Dumbo," the once-shunned baby elephant with the giant ears bursts into circus celebrity after unleashing his flying ability. His reward is being reunited with ...
- The Elephants Still Don't Talk
- How Dumbo Gets His Name
- 'Baby Mine' Still Leaves Us Emotional
- Animals Aren't The Focus in This Version
- Speaking of Nods to The Original ...
- Crows, Roustabouts Nowhere to Be Seen
- Send in The Firefighter Clowns
- The Circus Comes to Dreamland
- Does Dumbo Reunite with His Mother?
Just in case it wasn't clear before this article, real elephants don't talk. In the original, Mrs. Jumbo spoke once to tell Mr. Stork that her baby is named Jumbo Jr. as he continued to sing "Happy Birthday" to the bundle of joy. But other than this moment, she or Dumbo didn't talk for the whole film. They're still dialogue-less in 2019. Need a bre...
The mean female elephants from the original gave poor Dumbo his nickname when they got a glimpse at his oversize ears. This time when he makes his circus show debut, he's dressed as a baby with a bonnet covering his ears and a sign above him saying "Dear Baby Jumbo." Chaos ensues, and the words above his crib warp to read "Dumbo," as the crowd poin...
Maybe it rides on nostalgia from the first movie or maybe it's equally as emotional. But when Mrs. Jumbo is locked up in tight confinement again, it still leaves a mark on your heart. She doesn't gently rock Dumbo with her trunk like the original, but she does stroke his head a few times while circus actors sing "Baby Mine" around a campfire.
Dumbo has a human family now. Former horse trainer Holt Ferrier (Colin Farrell) and his two children are the main focus of this modern story to help drive the plot. And in a way focusing on the humans is great because Danny DeVito deserves the spotlight as ringleader Max Medici. But it leaves little room to get to know the circus animals. Unfortuna...
There are tasteful Easter Eggs to the original "Dumbo." Mr. Stork doesn't deliver Dumbo. Instead, a stork flies onto Mrs. Jumbo's cart while she's helping nature do its thing. Casey Jr. still appears as the train carrying the circus from one destination to the next with his theme song playing over the sequence. In one of the best visual scenes in t...
This one is for the better. In the original, with lines like "hairy ape" and showing only black men setting up circus tents during a storm in the original, it's up to the viewer to decide if it's racist or intended to shed a light on racism. And the singing crows that sang "When I See An Elephant Fly" and were crucial in helping Dumbo fly don't sho...
The way Dumbo's talent becomes publicly known is the same. They dress the little guy in humiliating clown face paint during the same bit with unhelpful, silly firefighter clowns. But this time, Dumbo isn't the one being saved at the top of the burning building, he's the one putting the fire out. Of course things go wrong and he's forced to fly, sho...
New character Vandevere is an amusement park tycoon who sees dollar signs when he looks at Dumbo. He offers Medici a residency at his park if Dumbo performs to a bigger audience, so off the circus goes to a new adventure. Dreamland is a drastically new location, but it introduces themes of corruption and entertainment animal abuse in a park that lo...
Yes, Dumbo sees his mom once again. At the end of the animated movie, Dumbo stays in the circus and gets his mom bailed out of elephant jail and into a private train cart. But in the end of the newer movie, Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are released back into the wild and free from the circus tent flaps. Want to pitch a story idea? Reach reporter Samantha I...
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Mar 29, 2019 · Dumbo is awarded the proper ending he deserves, though, as the other circus performers help him and his mother escape the circus completely. The final moments of the film show Mrs. Jumbo and Jumbo ...
- Ariana Brockington
Mar 28, 2019 · Not quite a comedy, but not quite a drama, not quite naturalistic but not quite cartoonish, Dumbo drifts this way and that until it eventually mutates into a hectic Stephen King-ish steam-punk ...
Mar 29, 2019 · Much of the story hinges on Dumbo’s desperation to be reunited with his mother. The film has its soaring, emotional moments when Dumbo takes wing, all of which are amplified by another of ...
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Apr 1, 2019 · At the end of the original film, Dumbo learns to fly and is reunited with his mother, living a life of luxury at the circus as a superstar. The remake goes in the exact opposite direction.
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Mar 28, 2019 · Dumbo. Tim Burton ’s “Dumbo” feels like one of the big-eared baby elephant’s early flights: It’s adorable and earnest but it causes a lot of commotion, and it only sporadically, haltingly soars. Burton’s live-action incarnation of the 1941 animated Disney classic consists of pieces of better Burton movies stitched together. With his ...
