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Dumbo (2019) - Movie Review

Disney Live Action

Like Maleficent, Disney added Dumbo to its live action movie remakes. I use Maleficent as a comparison since Dumbo is also taken from a different point of view than the animated movie was original from. I was not sure I was ever going to watch this movie unless it came on Netflix or Amazon Prime. As luck would have it, I received a free movie rental from Family Video. 

You can imagine the staff's surprise when I actually rented a movie vs buying the digital copy. I thought it an appropriate use of the free rental since I own most of the movies I would normally watch and was curious because of the cast. Again we can question my movie collection vs addition in another post. I am starting to question it myself.

Movie Review

My personal opinion is that a Tim Burton movie will either be good or not. The one thing is the movie will not be anything that you would expect. I will give him credit for telling Dumbo from a plausible angle. Some parts with an extreme stretch of the imagination. Like most of Burton's movies, this is not a lift your spirits movie until the last 10-15 minutes but let's be honest, the original animated movie was probably just as dark. If Tim Burton was to ever make a Disney movie, Dumbo is probably the perfect movie for him to do.

My interest in the movie was due to the cast with Colin Farrel, Danny DeVito, and Michael Keaton. Colin and Danny did not disappoint me with their performances or characters. Michael had a good performance as well but the audience was not meant to care about his character and I didn't. In my opinion, Alan Arkin stole every scene he was in. Eva Green was excellent as well and you really started to care about her character shortly after she is introduced.

The special affect definitely brought Dumbo to life. The movie was 112 minutes long and to be honest, I thought they could have made it shorter to speed the story along. Some of the added content to the movie was not necessarily needed to develop the characters. In short, I am very glad to have been able to rent this movie for free.

Rating

I would give this a solid SD rating. Unless you are a Dumbo or Tim Burton fan, I recommend just renting this movie if you have any interest in watching it. I might pick this movie up if it was HD for $5 but I don't see that happening ever.

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