Review of Dumbo (2019) by Ajzeg01 — 30 Nov 2019
Look, I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t even really pay attention to this one. It was just kind of on in the background and I glanced at it from time to time. From what I could gather, this movie is better than Aladdin and The Lion King.
That’s not saying much though. It is still way too long, it’s filled with bad writing and acting, all the colour is washed-out and it doesn’t seem to understand what made people like the original so much.
Some of the designs were kinda interesting, the CGI was decent, some parts were so bad they were actually pretty funny and Danny DeVito is unironically a national f*cking treasure, but that’s about all the good I have to say about this movie.
It is more original than some of the other Disney remakes, it’s kind of like Evil Dead 2 because it’s part remake but mostly a sequel, but the original plot they came up with was just stupid and it’s been done better in a million other movies.
After that Alice in Wonderland remake/sequel thing, can we all agree to keep Tim Burton away from classic Disney movies? His macabre but whimsical style just doesn’t work for them. Can we just get another stop-motion movie from him already? Thanks.
Anyway, this movie is not as bad as some others I’ve seen, but it is not good. I’d say just skip it and watch the original Dumbo or Big Fish instead.
This review of Dumbo (2019) was written by Ajzeg01 on 30 Nov 2019.
Dumbo has generally received positive reviews.
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