![]() That is until Dumbo uses those floppy ears to fly.Įverything you think will happen next most emphatically does. But when the baby, cruelly tagged Dumbo, is born with oversized ears, Max wants nothing to do with him. Max’s thinking is that an infant Jumbo will draw crowds to his traveling circus. In such reduced circumstances, financially strapped circus owner Max Medici (an energetic Danny DeVito) has sold the horses that once made Holt a star attraction and put the combat veteran in charge of Jumbo, a pregnant elephant. That leaves Holt in charge of his two children, Milly (Nico Parker) and her little brother Joe (Finley Hobbins). But screenwriter Ehren Kruger, infamous for three of the five Transformers films, has transformed the plot to include a mixed bag of human characters.Ĭolin Farrell stars as Holt Farrier, a circus performer who has just returned from World War I minus an arm and a wife who has died from influenza during his absence. Dumbo, the baby elephant who can use his weirdly big ears to fly, still occupies the center ring in Burton’s extravagant new circus. ![]() If you prefer Burton’s big visionary swings into darkness ( Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Ed Wood, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd), the family-friendly Dumbo will require adjustment to the PG light. This live-action re-imagining of Disney’s 1941 animated classic may be the sweetest film Tim Burton has ever made. ![]()
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