Dumbo's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
An enchanting blend of Disney twinkle and Tim Burton?s dark whimsy (...) Come for the super-cute elephant, stay for Keaton and DeVito?s glorious reunion
USA Today
It is a sight to behold, especially for those who adore the weird aesthetic that Burton has cultivated for decades.
Variety
It transforms a gentle and miraculous tale into a routine story by weighing it down with a lot of nuts and bolts it didn?t need. The character of Dumbo is still touching, but the tale of entrapment and rescue that surrounds him is not.
Fotogramas
To reconnect the classic Disney emotions without asking for nothing in exchange (...) It keeps the original emotionality and broaden the story, in a film that is more a sequel tan a remake (...)
Screen Daily
It has the magic and wonder of his best work (...) But there remains a frustratingly impersonal flavour to the work (...) that keeps the film from soaring all that high.
Indiewire
His ?Dumbo? never reaches the drunken highs of the original (...) but it?s most exciting moments tap into a kind of deliriousness that only he can deliver.
The Hollywood Reporter
There's likely enough here to keep today's children absorbed (...). But this is another frustratingly uneven picture, with thin characters ? human and animal ? that fail to exert much of a hold.
The A.V. Club
But while Dumbo himself is adorable, he isn?t especially Burton-esque, and neither is the rest of the film (...) No one gets the chance to truly showboat.
Time
The new Dumbo is ostentatious and overworked, less a work of imagination than a declaration of how imaginative Burton thinks he is.
The Guardian
All the charm and heartbreak of Disney?s classic animation is missing (...). t is a flightless pachyderm of a film that saddles itself