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The kids thoroughly enjoyed Dumbo and to some extent so did we. There were great moments, and there were huge gaps. Most of the characters were flat and underdeveloped or just plain unnecessary, as were parts of the story. There was little satisfaction and the original message seemed lost. The beginning of the film felt warm and familiar/nostalgic and built the expectation but I would have preferred it to have stayed in the old tired circus where there was at least potential for character development. The last third of the film felt like a desperate attempt to build a story but failed miserably, because you never really cared about any of the characters, not even Dumbo.



Danny De Vito and Colin Farrell were the stars of the show and there were a few nods to the original movie that were nice but the rest of it felt like watching a slightly boring documentary about an exploited, elephant. Tim Burton should stay away from these remakes.



We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment.
Dumbo = 6   See above

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