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 ...

While I didn’t pay any money for my tickets to Dumbo, I did buy a Coke slurpee from the AMC Boston Common concessions counter—which is, as a brief aside, the least urgent place I have ever ...

Tim Burton’s live-action “Dumbo” launches March 29, a remake of the Disney classic that opened Oct. 23, 1941. That film is remembered as one of Disney’s shortest (64 minutes) and sweetest. It should ...

The original was made in 1941. It’s by far the oldest source material of all the Disney remakes, and its plot is also the thinnest: Mrs. Jumbo gives birth to Dumbo, a baby elephant with ridiculously ...

Tim Burton's remake of "Dumbo" -- a live-action and CGI version of Disney's 1941 classic about a flying baby elephant -- is more an expansion of the original than simply a souped-up retread. For one ...

Disney’s Dumbo is a classic animated movie that came out in 1941. It was the fourth Disney animated feature film to ever come out and focused on a unique baby elephant, Jumbo Jr. who has floppy ears ...

Dumbo is Disney's latest foray into adapting its classic animated films into live action features. While Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella have fared well with critics, Dumbo hasn't been welcomed in ...

The lessons of “Dumbo” are straightforward: Your perceived shortcomings may be what makes you special, what makes you soar. And somebody’s going to call you a freak anyway. The 1941 film is the review ...

The animators wanted to join the Screen Cartoonists Guild, a move Walt Disney resisted. Workers staged a walkout, and on July 9, 1941, Variety reported, “There was the added charge that subversive and ...