The shortest and cheapest of Disney's animated features, Dumbo has long been characterized by its modesty. When it was released in 1941, in the wake of the grandiose and poorly received Fantasia, its ...

Director Tim Burton’s live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature “Dumbo” offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times ...