Dumbo (1941)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 1
Dumbo packs plenty of story into its brief runtime, along with all the warm animation and wonderful music you'd expect from a Disney classic.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
Dumbo packs plenty of story into its brief runtime, along with all the warm animation and wonderful music you'd expect from a Disney classic.
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The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo is even separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Timothy Mouse offers the hand of friendship to Dumbo, encouraging the pouty pachyderm to exploit his "different" qualities for fame and fortune. After trepidatiously indulging in a vat of booze, Dumbo
Oct 23, 1941 Wide
Oct 23, 2001
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Cast
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Sterling Holloway
Stork -
Edward S. Brophy
Timothy Q. Mouse -
Herman Bing
Ringmaster -
Verna Felton
Elephant -
Cliff Edwards
Jim Crow -
Billy Bletcher
Clown -
Sarah Selby
Elephant -
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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (1) | DVD (39)
Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date.
Top CriticIt's one of Disney's most charming and perfectly proportioned films, uninflated by the cultural pretensions Uncle Walt was fond of slipping in.
There's a pleasant little story, plenty of pathos mixed with the large doses of humor, a number of appealing new animal characters, lots of good music, and the usual Disney skillfulness in technique.
One of the best of Disney's animated features.
A film you will never forget.
Dumbo was for Disney what The Old Man and the Sea was for Hemingway: a simple but powerful story that's brilliantly rendered and succeeds precisely because it is so simple, archetypal, and true.
Another magical experience that will have the mother's crying and the kids cheering!
Perfection, thy name is Dumbo.
Get ready to watch pink elephants on parade again, and again, and again. A fitting package for the greatest animated movie ever made.
A 1941 Disney animated feature about a harassed little elephant with big ears and his friendship with an imaginative mouse.
Disney classic will still make you cry!
One of the most emotionally potent of all animated movies; I might be inclined to say, of all movies, period.
Touching, comic, visually inventive and emotionally convincing, this remains a jewel in the crown of Disney's golden age.
It just tells a great story and has beautiful moments of powerful emotion that can bring a tear to the eye even 65 years after it was made.
Viewed in isolation, Dumbo feels like a practice feature film from animators whose only previous experience was short subjects.
Pink elephants are on parade in Dumbo, Walt Disney's most sanguine film by an ear. Too bad Disney's single-disc package treats him like the Cheneys do Mary.
In its scant 64-minute running time, the big top melodrama of Dumbo reduces me to a blubbering, mucus-drizzling wreck at least once with every viewing.
Audience Reviews for Dumbo
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- Stork: Happy birthday to you a happy birthday too you. Happy birthday a dear... a dear. Dear me what's his name?
- Elephant: Jumbo. Junior.
- Stork: Oh Jumbo Junior huh? Jumbo Junior. Happy birthday a dear a Jumbo Junior. Happy birthday. Toooooo *gasp* yoooooou.
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- Ringmaster: And now comes the climax!
- Clown: Uh boss. What is the climax?
- Ringmaster: I don't know.
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- Jim Crow: I think I will have seen everything. When I see an elephant fly.
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- Timothy Q. Mouse: Well you're uh... a pachyderm and pachyderms don't cry.
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Foreign Titles
- Dumbo, der fliegende Elefant (DE)
