'Dumbo': Elephants Never Forget, But Audiences Will
Tim Burton's take on the classic Disney animated feature does what it sets out to do in a kid-friendly, safe and unsurprising way devoid of the director's onetime idiosyncratic flair.
the first of three live-action(ish) remakes of beloved Disney cartoons due in the next four months (is coming in May, in June), coulda been a contender. Its director is Tim Burton, who began his career as an animator, and who has periodically returned to that medium for heartfelt, handmade pictures like and More recently, Burton is the filmmaker most directly responsible for this cartoon-reclamation trend: His 2010 re-imagining of took in more than a billion dollars around the world. Do you is better, but that's a bar any able-bodied adult elephant could clear, no unusual talents necessary.
