Review of Dumbo (2019) by Brunovn00 — 02 Apr 2019
It was a fine movie, not terrible but far from great. It was slow, boring and extremely predictable for the most part and the final act was when the movie started to get me invested. I'm glad that this is not a blatant remake shot-by-shot of the animated movie (like the live-action Beauty and the Beast) and I give it praise for showing a different perspective, too bad the writing wasn't good enough to make that perspective interesting or exciting.
The references to the animated movie are soooo forced and serve no purpose to the plot, almost felt like their only purpose was just so adults that saw the animated movie as kids, go "Awww, I remember that". I mean, that was the marketing for this movie after all.
Oh but we got a stellar cast: Michael Keaton as Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito as Danny DeVito and Colin Farrell as Colin Farrel, their acting was bland and it felt like watching three competent actors get wasted with bland and one-dimensional characters and the child actors were just not good.
This review of Dumbo (2019) was written by Brunovn00 on 02 Apr 2019.
Dumbo has generally received positive reviews.
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