Dumbo: reviews

What the critics say average 5.5 from 10 outlets

• 8.0 EmpireBen Travis 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 Read
• 8.0 USA TodayBrian Truitt It is a sight to behold, especially for those who adore the weird aesthetic that Burton has cultivated for decades. Read
• 6.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman 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. Read
• 6.0 FotogramasMireia Mullor 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 (...) Read
• 6.0 Screen DailyTim Grierson 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. Read
• 5.5 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich 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. Read
• 5.0 The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney 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. Read
• 5.0 The A.V. ClubKatie Rife 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. Read
• 3.0 TimeStephanie Zacharek The new Dumbo is ostentatious and overworked, less a work of imagination than a declaration of how imaginative Burton thinks he is. Read
• 2.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw All the charm and heartbreak of Disney?s classic animation is missing (...). t is a flightless pachyderm of a film that saddles itself Read