WORKING FOR PEANUTS Farrell costars with a disturbingly winsome digital elephant in Burton’s new version of the animated classic. Many adults remember Disney’s Dumbo (1941) mainly for its misery. Like ...

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 ...

This live-action re-imagining of Disney’s 1941 animated classic may be the sweetest film Tim Burton has ever made. It’s also the safest. If you prefer Burton’s big visionary swings into darkness ...

Tim Burton’s remake of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, Dumbo, is coming down the track towards theaters. And although early reviews and box office predictions have been mixed, we’ll say this about ...

“Dumbo” is a strange beast, indeed. I don’t mean the character of an elephant born with ears so big he can flap them and take flight. And I don’t mean the 1941 Disney animated feature starring that ...

In 1941, Walt Disney was at a crossroads, breaking box office records with his first feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), but losing money on both “Pinocchio” (1940) and “Fantasia” (1940) ...

The best scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy 1941 has Robert Stack as an Army general crying while sitting in a theater. He’s watching the poignant scene in Dumbo where a caged Mrs. Jumbo rocks ...

Like the odds against the big-eared baby elephant himself, the deck would seem to be stacked against Tim Burton’s Dumbo. Burton has been on a bit of a cold streak; Disney’s recent remakes (The Jungle ...