6/18/2023 0 Comments Disney dumbo![]() ![]() And there’s plenty more coming down the pipeline: In May, Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin in July The Lion King Mulan next year, and more in the works, including Lady and the Tramp and The Little Mermaid.īut recently things have hit a bump at the box office. Against expectations, The Jungle Book was a critical and commercial hit in 2016 Beauty and the Beast was the second highest grossing movie of 2017 globally (No 1 was Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also from Disney). Over the last decade or so, Disney has snapped up plum properties such as Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar, culminating in last week’s $71bn (£54bn) acquisition of rival studio 21st Century Fox. The corporation’s recent buying spree has left other studios trembling in its mouse-eared shadow. If Dumbo flops, it could represent a major disturbance in Disney’s grand master plan. ![]() In this paper, Peter Bradshaw calls it “ a flightless pachyderm of a film” with a “pointlessly complicated and drawn-out story”. “Floats just high enough to clear the incredibly low bar that it sets for itself,” writes IndieWire. “It transforms a gentle and miraculous tale into a routine story by weighing it down with a lot of nuts and bolts it didn’t need,” says Variety. The reviews are in on Disney’s new Dumbo – reworked from the 1941 classic with “the imagination of Tim Burton” – and they are not unanimously positive, to say the least. Now watch as a computer-animated elephant with oversized ears … crashes to the ground from a very great height. Y ou’ve seen a horse fly, you’ve seen a dragon fly, you’ve seen a house fly.
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