Film Review: ‘Dumbo’: Tim Burton’s CGI Fails to Remake Classic

PG | 1h 52min | Family, Fantasy | 29 March 2019 (USA)

Disney’s 1941 classic, about a wee circus elephant baby with giant ears, whose mom’s name (Jumbo), along with the baby’s huge ears, got him automatically nicknamed “Dumbo,” was a classic for a reason: It had great pathos. It was sadder than “Bambi.”