By Brandy McDonnellAn abbreviated version of this review appears in Friday's Weekend Life section of The Oklahoman. 2 1/2 of 4 stars. Movie review: Tim Burton's 'Dumbo' remake gets off the ground but never soarsMoviegoers get to see an adorable baby elephant fly, but two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton’s remake of “Dumbo” doesn’t soar with the simple magic of the 1941 animated classic.The latest film in the Disney canon to get a (mostly) live-action remake, “Dumbo” presents plenty of challenges: The original runs an unfussy 64 minutes, boasts some of the most indelible sights and sounds in cinema history and features a bevy of material that hasn’t aged well, especially a character literally named Jim Crow who leads a flock of racial stereotypes on the wing and a trippy sequence of a drunken baby elephant hallucinating.Since there’s not much of the original story to work with, and seasoned screenwriter Ehren Kruger (the “Transformers” movies, “The Skeleton Twins”) fills it out with a cluttered and repetitive narrative crammed with thinly drawn, one-dimensional characters.Read more on NewsOK.com
Movie Review: Tim Burton's 'dumbo' Remake Gets Off The Ground But Never Soars
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