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Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date.
It'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.
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.
With its colorful circus setting and quirky characters, this short Disney movie is easy to like, but it's Dumbo himself who steals your heart.
Both the movie and this spanking-new Big Top Edition have a lot going for them, not the least being the bundle of bonuses found therein. (Big Top Edition)
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