'Dumbo' review: Disney rebooks flight 1941 — to nowhere in particular
Director Tim Burton's live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature "Dumbo" offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times the number of tear-jerking elephant mother/son separations and reunions.
This movie also offers less: less wit, less charm, and only a few scraps of the old movie's crucial songs (though "Baby Mine" receives its moment, in a campfire rendition). Burton has taken on this sort of adaptation for Disney before, with the 2010 billion-dollar-grossing "Alice in Wonderland." I found that one easier to take, if only because Mia Wasikowska
