![]() This overcomplicated onslaught of manufactured magic could never really compete. 9 reviews This gorgeous picture book based on Tim Burton’s live action Dumbo will focus on the iconic baby elephant’s heartwarming journey.this Tim Burton re-imagination of the iconic Disney movie will be. Dumbo Live Action Picture Book by Calliope Glass, Dominic Carola (Illustrator), Ryan Feltman (Illustrator) 3.61 The appeal of the original came from its purity and simplicity. The much-anticipated live-action release of Disneys Dumbo has a date: and its really. Something slightly disingenuous, perhaps, about the glib anti-corporate message of the film jars. But despite the best efforts of a character-design department, which pulled out all the stops with Dumbo 2.0 – he’s precision-tooled to pluck heartstrings – my eyes remained dry throughout. I have watched the original film innumerable times and I shed a tear with every single viewing. ![]() But more of a problem is an emotional missing link. There are structural issues – an inelegant jump from Dumbo’s first flight, witnessed only by two children, to his big-top aerial debut feels abrupt, as if a crucial linking scene was cut somewhere along the way.Īpart from Colin Farrell’s widowed amputee stunt rider and Danny DeVito’s deliciously unscrupulous ringmaster, the characters, Dumbo included, are rather underwritten. What’s anchoring this picture to Earth? As with the similarly flamboyant The Greatest Showman, the main weakness is in the writing. But unlike the little elephant at the heart of the story, the film fails to lift off. They’re full of invitation and possibility, those endless midwest skies.
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