Dumbo (1941)
Genre: Animation / Music
Duration: 64 minuten
Alternative titles: Dombo / Walt Disney's Dumbo
Country:
United States
Directed by: Ben Sharpsteen
Stars: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy and Herman Bing
IMDb score:
7,2 (150.559)
Releasedate: 31 October 1941
Dumbo plot
"The One...The Only...The FABULOUS..."
The new son of Mrs. Jumbo is ridiculed for his gigantic ears, and is given the name Dumbo. Dumbo is put to work with the clowns of the circus where his mother works. It's up to his only friend, a mouse, to let Dumbo unleash his potential.
Actors and actresses
Mr. Stork (voice)
The Ringmaster (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Timothy Q. Mouse (voice)
Crow (voice)
Clown (voice)
Crow (voice)
Jim Crow (voice)
Elephant Matriarch / Mrs. Jumbo (voice)
Catty the Elephant (voice)
Reviews & comments
DVD-T
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- 15565 messages
- 3140 votes
One of my favorite Disney movies.
Dumbo is somewhat smaller in scale compared to previous major productions Pinocchio and Fantasia. It has a beautiful and very simple and sweet story told in a fairly short playing time. This story and the way in which the animations are made get under your skin and always know how to respond to all emotions. And those animations are hugely important in Dumbo as there is very little dialogue and everything had to be told through the eyes and through the great animators. The animation is really perfect and still looks very nice today. It's a pity that we don't see this technology much anymore these days. These kinds of videos give you more and more respect for what these people can do.
Dumbo is and remains a beautifully made film with a perfect narration of the story.
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Miszmi
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- 3240 messages
- 598 votes
I really didn't watch these kinds of movies when I was a kid, or saw them when I was too young to remember now. I do know that I always had a book about this and loved it, I have some mixed feelings about the movie.
I'm not going to be too critical of a '41 movie. I'll just keep it global in this case. I think the story itself is pretty strong. A timeless subject: making fun of others for being different. This is actually very well portrayed, such as the exclusion. A subject that children today will (unfortunately) recognize.
In the course of the film fantasy begins to play an increasingly important role. Okay, of course children are not brought with the stork and animals cannot talk, but I am mainly referring to the story. For me the low point was the part where they were drunk. Totally unnecessary, not funny and even starting to annoy me enormously. I don't really understand the added value of this.
The running time is on the short side, which this film does well. A (much) longer film would probably have made it way too long-winded. Nevertheless, the aforementioned low point could have been absorbed by working out other things a bit further. Think of the reunification of Jumbo and Dumbo, which was actually not in the picture at all. Anyway, like I said, I'm not going to be too critical and I'm not going to weigh too much on this either. In the end I enjoyed watching the film and I received a more than satisfactory rating, 3.5*.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3690 votes
The arrival of Tim Burton's remake seemed like a good time to try this classic. Because I didn't grow up with the Disney cartoons (The BFG and the Wizard of Oz were my drawn childhood classics), I only know the characters by name. So interesting to see the film for the first time at a later age. Provided; the character Dumbo is a touching figure, the little elephant with his big ears is very cute. I'm also glad they didn't text him. That the mouse, the birds and all the other elephants talk works fine, but the choice not to let Dumbo talk himself works out very well.
The film only lasts an hour, which is nice, because the story was originally going to be a 30-minute movie and was stretched to an hour. And that is palpable. In any case, the film is not very to the point in its narration. That is not so disturbing in the beginning, the journey of the circus and especially the visually very attractive setting up of the circus is fine, but after that it really starts to drag here and there. Such a dream sequence with pink elephants might be visually interesting, but it went on too long for me. Just like the clowns before and the birds after. Anyway, nevertheless Dumbo is a sympathetic cartoon. But mainly because of the enormously sympathetic title character.
3 stars.
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