I wish more film makers had that ability. It starts, tells it's simple story, then knows when the hell to get off the stage. The next morning, she enters the circus train but stops on the footbridge to look out for the stork. Jumbo is first seen one night awaiting a stork, but starts to lose patience when she doesn't receive her baby, unlike the other circus animals. She is the loving, protective mother of the film's titular character. I'm disappointed to discover the voice actors (Including Cliff Edwards, "Ukelele Ike" and the voice of Jiminy Cricket) were white guys playing black - I was hoping they were some cool unknown black combo - but it's a terrific number anyway. Jumbo is the tritagonist in Disney's 1941 animated feature film Dumbo. The musical crow number ("When I See an Elephant Fly"). Effective but not over-the-top heartstring tugging. ![]() In 2019, Tim Burton’s live-action remake revived Dumbo with an original story and a shady color palette to match the dark history surrounding circus elephants. Things that make this movie great: The animation (I used to work at a zoo, and while the real elephants did little talking or singing the animators captured their body language incredibly well.) "Pink Elephants on Parade". Dumbo has been a beloved Disney character since the elephant was sent flying onto screens in 1942, but the true story behind circus elephants makes the movie so much darker. Walt may have been, according to some people, a fascist and an anti-Semite, but he was also a genius. ![]() Nothing since then has been able to recapture the magic. DUMBO is my favorite of all the classic Disney films (a group which ends with JUNGLE BOOK, completed after Walt's death). How it squeaks by with a mere 7.4 voter average while all sorts of contemporary crap does far better is a mystery and a tribute to the downward spiral in cinematic taste. This is clearly one of the great animated features of all time.
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