Michael E Uslan developed and produced both the Tim Burton Batman films (and Joel Schumacher remaining two films) and Christopher Nolan trilogy! Only thing he answer for, is how he lights his cigars with a burning $100 dollar U.S. bill while he laughs at you with his Professor's degree he earned. Starting up a University course by teaching the use and purpose of "comic book superheroes" as modern mythology!
My 13yo said when she closed her eyes it sounded like Edward scissorhands, my 7yo said it was good but why was it so darķ that you couldn't see what was going on, my 6yo had to sit on my lap as she didn't want dumbo's mum to die. Personally it was like looking at Pinterest surreal artwork strung together to make a film, beautiful to look at but too dark and lacked soul. The actors did the best they could with what they had been given.
Disney blew so much money on John Carter and Lone Ranger they sat around a table and said, "Let's never film another story we haven't already made a fortune out of for years."
tomas torrens I think so, too, although I wish it was a little more faithful to Burroughs. The climax of the first book, A Princess Of Mars, would make a terrific cliffhanger ending to a movie.
Yeh that was the Rockabilly in Mark talking there, it was a real throw away insult and undeserved, The Pistols might've been a bit of a gimmick but Steve Jones was a genuine guitarist and Paul Cook a genuine drummer to just disregard them as "pantomime kareaoke" is incredibly petty from a man who should know better being a musician himself.
Um no not quite right there, they weren't manufactured, Steve Jones, Glenn Matlock and Paul Cook were all genuine musicians who formed the band first then Malcolm McClaren came along and manipulated it by having John join with his mate Sid and use the clothes from his fashion boutique to sell them, that was the only manufactured part, but the band wasn't brought together by him, there were three genuine musicians at the heart so wrong. @chunkycake101
*Why did people dislike the wachowskis speed racer?* Because except hardcore fans very few came to understand it. Its a great movie but its also flawed from the commercial standpoint. Longtime fans understood it, but general audiences wouldn't sadly.
Once there was superman. Then they figured out that superman needed the personality of batman, in deep need of professional counselling. We all know we live in dire times when the primary characteristic of superman is deep depression. Seems they have given Dumbo the same makeover. I rather watch Paddington again
My issue primarily was the character motivations were an absolute wreck, everything felt like it was happening in service of the plot rather than actually flowing from the people and what they were trying to achieve. Especially the main villain, but throughout really, there was setup without payoff, "payoff" for things not set up properly, actions taken for little discernible reason and so forth. Five more passes on the script please! (side note, main writer also wrote three of the Transformers sequels. I was not surprised to find this out)
Well he had his arms crossed and was looking pouty when he said it so yes it did come across as a rather petulant throw away jibe, from a bass player no less. @@RobotPorter
Tim Burton should remake Dr Syn Alias The Scarecrow (also known as The Scarecrow of Rommey Marsh), an historical epic/superhero movie. Its been filmed a few times - last time starring Patrick McGoohan & it has all the mystery & creepiness that Burton's films are cherished for
I really wanted to like Dumbo. Been looking forward to it for a while. While I did enjoy it, I walked out of the cinema feeling disappointed. It felt rushed, the baby mine part didn't have the feels that it should. The pink elephants on parade, was the part I thought Tim Burton would do well, but it fell flat. There was also one scene that did not make any sense in being in the film.
Couldn't agree more re the pistols sentiments and I will not be taking my 6 year old to see this film. The original Cinderella has more than enough edge and scare to it than for me to add this retelling to her already vivid imagination and insight. I have a hard enough time explaining curses, poison apples, and Lion king death without adding amputee and war to the list at her stage in life. I'm not one for shielding my kid from the world but neither am I for introducing her to the realities of post stress disorder and juvenile mourning unless there's a damn good reason for it.
When we were kids, my sister made my mum literally remove our Dumbo video from the house because it was so sad she couldn't cope having it in the house, let alone watching it
I actually thought the same thing re the physics aspect after watching the trailer. Being live action rather than a cartoon it's much harder to accept that the laws of physics don't apply as they would in real life. Being a man of science it's something I found rather distracting just from watching the trailer. Probably gonna give this one a miss tbh
Consider this, he made a movie for Disney with this plot as a direct response to Disney's corporate practices. Just replace a couple nouns- V A Vandemere with Walt Disney and Dreamland with Disneyworld
I didn't completely understand what he was inferring with that to be honest, is he saying she's one note and being ironic or does he actually like her?
Sorry I always get those two mixed up. I duno what he meant by arresting really, arresting in what way is the question. He seems to be taking a shot at her lack of acting range one moment then drops that ambiguous comment. @@paulyd6372
WHy double the running time? That rarely ever works. All you do is stuff unnecessary things in to extend it that often add nothing to the story or aren't interesting. I care not one jot for any of the human characters, I want Timothy J Mouse.
He dismisses his own very good point at around 6:20 where he hits the nail on the head. All these cynical money making Disney live action versions of animated classics are stripped bare of any fairy tale fantasy element. Remove the animation and you end up just questioning the sense of it all. It's the same with Jungle Book and why is Hermione Granger dancing with a Beast. Daylight robbery.
Edward Scissorhands is one of those films that you watch back and realise it's not as good as you remember. Most of his early films are good a good watch but his only masterpiece is The Nightmare before Christmas and I think the credit there goes to Henry Selick and Danny Elfman - Burton brought the weird but they brought the wonderful!
@@GUV85 - You monster :) Edward Scissorhands is a lovely flick! It may not be a "masterpiece," but it's still a wonderfully original, quirky and emotional film...
I might watch some of these remakes (and I mean SOME) on Netflix or TV years from now but I am not giving Disney any money for them. I'm sticking to that.
Just came back from seeing Dumbo and I have to agree. There were a lot of missed opportunities, and I think you never feel like Dumbo forms a connection with any of the humans. This is why it doesn’t feel real, and doesn’t have to do with just a visual thing. I have never seen the original Dumbo, so I am judging this without any bias at all or trying to compare it to something else and this was intentional. The suffering is something you feel, I like the ironic look at Disney itself, dreamland is Disneyland and Keaton is clearly a cynical version of Walt Disney. That all works, but the heart was still missing. I think there were too many human characters oddly, and therefore you never really got any character development from anyone and this is why the film suffered. Alice in Wonderland had the same problem but I actually prefer that film to this. It’s really annoying because the story of Dumbo is far superior but this film was just missing the beats. Why was Colin Farrell’s lack of limb never a reason for him to connect with Dumbo, another outsider for example? So many missed opportunities, but that’s just my opinion. It’s not terrible, the actors are giving it everything, apart from the girl who was quite frankly terrible, but it just misses the mark. Also Keaton was very inconsistent, trying to imitate Depp which was just cringed as hell.
See the original;, it is just lovely, in spite of the dubious treatment of the crows, (racist by todays standards), but that is just one short sequence.
Kermode WAS perhaps a little too harsh, I agree. I think it'd have been more apt if you'd put a really offensive expletive before the word 'blasphemy'. Truth be told, I've no real view on the Pistols ... back then I was more of a Prog/Classic/Blues rock kinda guy (though very much a lover of Dury, Clash, etc). That said, I AM NOW quite nostalgic for them ... but Sid was still an idiot, lol!
Maybe they should just show the old or original one again in the cinema's. However, I'm still hoping that the lion king might be good to watch cause I enjoyed the recent remake of the jungle book. But still the originals are just classic.
I knew they would ruin it ... a simple story, but it contains two of the most superbly animated sequences in film history, Pink Elephants On Parade is an absolute phantasmagoria, and the toppling of the elephant pyramid, animated by the genius animator, Vlad Tytla is quite simply the greatest piece of animation, ever. Why did they think it was a good idea?
I would love to hear a full Kermode review on the Sex Pistols! Trying to imagine some things he'd say "Here's the thing. Glen Matlock was actually pretty good. But if the bassist in the band is the best musician, you're in trouble". "The Sex Pistols remind me of the rebirth of Hammer Horror. It becomes a desperate parody of what came before. It's like Johnny Rotten is Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman In Black, but he thinks he's Peter Cushing in The Curse of Frankenstein".
These live-action remakes need to stop. It's baffling how Disney today seem to be completely clueless about the strengths of animation that can't be adapted into live-action. If you bring the visual style of a cartoon into reality, it will look goofy and fake. Realistic animals can't emote like cartoon characters and attempting to do so will more likely result in an uncanny valley effect. Exaggerated movements look normal in animation, but take you out of the movie in live-action. The Jungle Book was so far the only movie that somewhat justified the live-action approach, everything else looks like a soulless cash grab feeding off of people's nostalgia for Disney's classics.
To be honestly speaking, there are 4 live-action remakes that were no soulless cash-grabs, had truly worked and were well-received by critics and audiences, such as the cases of Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Christopher Robin.
I enjoyed it, having never seen the original. And it's probably the least "Tim Burton" Tim Burton film I've seen in a long time, and that's a good thing. Having said that, I thought Poppins Returns was naff, so each to their own.
Saw it today and enjoyed it more than I expected to after this review. It’s not too TIM BURTON and has plenty of charm. Much more it’s own film rather than a slavish remake like the awful live action B&B.
The B&B live-action is no f**king awful. It was a good one. Got a decent rating within the critic score of 71% and an audience score of 80% on rotten tomatoes, so it ain't horrible, ret**d. Dumbo on the other hand was s**t, got a rotten rating within the critic score of 47% and 60% audience score rating.
Or just take a break from major studio projects and pursue smaller budget work for a few years. He could probably get some good mileage out of collaborating with Laica
The film’s well acted, intriguing & is well scored, however the film’s unfocused, poorly directed, lifeless & isn’t heart warming. (43%) (2/5 stars) (mixed)
Sex Pistols were just a pantomime kareaoke act? Ouch Mark, one could fully admit that John couldn't sing and Sid couldn't play bass and that the whole image of the band was the brainchild of a cheap provocateur (McClaren) but to dismiss Steve Jones and Paul Cook who were genuine musicians who could play their instruments is harsh, just cos they weren't a skiffle band or rockabilly doesn't mean they had no talent.
Sorry Mark, but you over analyze the film. I am 72 and most certainly watched the original Dumbo but it seems to me that too many critics are seeing clutter where there is, instead, beautiful sets and costumes and a story of redemption and acceptance.
When Mark Kermode says "here's the thing" that's never a good sign....
I was going to say the same thing.
When Mark said “I didn’t cry, and I cry at everything!” he sounded like he wanted to cry right then and there for how much the movie let him down...
Yup, he's a Cancer alright
I'm assuming that Dumbo was played by Johnny Depp and he had a British accent?
The dark, souless, technically brilliant, empty Christopher Nolan batman trilogy. Michael e uslan has a lot to answer for.
Michael E Uslan developed and produced both the Tim Burton Batman films (and Joel Schumacher remaining two films) and Christopher Nolan trilogy! Only thing he answer for, is how he lights his cigars with a burning $100 dollar U.S. bill while he laughs at you with his Professor's degree he earned. Starting up a University course by teaching the use and purpose of "comic book superheroes" as modern mythology!
@@RhysPitman94 it's not. Batman is in it for like 5 minutes
I’m assuming that’s a Pirates 🏴☠️ of the Carribean reference! Lol
I think what Mark says about live action CGI nails down a general problem about the emotional distance even the best CGI effects create.
‘That doesn’t make any aerodynamic sense’ 🤣
These Disney remakes are getting so ridiculous.
Put the blame on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. He started it in the first place.
@@ajpat9620 101 Dalmatians
@@film79 The 1996 version looks dated as crap. At least Glenn Close's performance of Cruella de Vil was iconic and memorable.
@X4mat That Dumbo remake pales in comparison to the original. Tim Burton ruined it.
Devito, Keaton? This must be a Batman sequel?
My 13yo said when she closed her eyes it sounded like Edward scissorhands, my 7yo said it was good but why was it so darķ that you couldn't see what was going on, my 6yo had to sit on my lap as she didn't want dumbo's mum to die. Personally it was like looking at Pinterest surreal artwork strung together to make a film, beautiful to look at but too dark and lacked soul. The actors did the best they could with what they had been given.
Disney blew so much money on John Carter and Lone Ranger they sat around a table and said, "Let's never film another story we haven't already made a fortune out of for years."
John Carter was underrated imo
tomas torrens I think so, too, although I wish it was a little more faithful to Burroughs. The climax of the first book, A Princess Of Mars, would make a terrific cliffhanger ending to a movie.
Loved that throw-away line at the end about the Sex Pistols!
Mark's wrong, of course - but it's still a brilliant line!
Yeah, that cracked me up as well.
@chunkycake101 I haven't seen anyone mention the Jonas brothers in years
Yeh that was the Rockabilly in Mark talking there, it was a real throw away insult and undeserved, The Pistols might've been a bit of a gimmick but Steve Jones was a genuine guitarist and Paul Cook a genuine drummer to just disregard them as "pantomime kareaoke" is incredibly petty from a man who should know better being a musician himself.
Um no not quite right there, they weren't manufactured, Steve Jones, Glenn Matlock and Paul Cook were all genuine musicians who formed the band first then Malcolm McClaren came along and manipulated it by having John join with his mate Sid and use the clothes from his fashion boutique to sell them, that was the only manufactured part, but the band wasn't brought together by him, there were three genuine musicians at the heart so wrong. @chunkycake101
Always my problem with live action remakes of cartoons, the abstraction is gone so you start focussing on details that don't work in real life...
@@FrancoisDressler still never seen it. Dropped off Netflix before i got around to it, sadly
I wanted more of Master Phineas in the live-action Cinderella! I wanted to see his completed painting.
*Why did people dislike the wachowskis speed racer?*
Because except hardcore fans very few came to understand it. Its a great movie but its also flawed from the commercial standpoint. Longtime fans understood it, but general audiences wouldn't sadly.
mabusestestament As a film it was produced by Warners Brothers as a studio under; Joel Silver and Grant Hill i do believe!
Eva Green is most definitely Eva Green very pleasing screen actress to put it mildly.
Rise Of 300, I know what else rises...
She was the only good actress in the film, in my opinion.
Ladies and gentlemen! For one night only...Hissable Villain!
"It's so dense, every shot has so much going on"
Dumbo is the key to all this. We have to make sure we get him to work. Because he's a funnier character than we've ever had.
I may have gone a bit overboard in places.
Once there was superman. Then they figured out that superman needed the personality of batman, in deep need of professional counselling. We all know we live in dire times when the primary characteristic of superman is deep depression.
Seems they have given Dumbo the same makeover.
I rather watch Paddington again
I wonder if they include the talking crows sequence lol
My issue primarily was the character motivations were an absolute wreck, everything felt like it was happening in service of the plot rather than actually flowing from the people and what they were trying to achieve. Especially the main villain, but throughout really, there was setup without payoff, "payoff" for things not set up properly, actions taken for little discernible reason and so forth. Five more passes on the script please! (side note, main writer also wrote three of the Transformers sequels. I was not surprised to find this out)
I now know how to describe Eva Green in PC terms.
I didn't see much of a Tim Burton stamp from the film and found it very generic.
3:30 I thought he was going to cry when he was thinking about the original Dumbo
*_"They're just a pantomime karaoke act, anyway"_*
*:)*
One of those examples of projection. Because that perfectly describes Mr. Kermode. Even when he's not doing music.
👏 👏
Well he had his arms crossed and was looking pouty when he said it so yes it did come across as a rather petulant throw away jibe, from a bass player no less. @@RobotPorter
does this have "pink elephants on parade" and "when I see an elephant fly"?
Tim Burton should remake Dr Syn Alias The Scarecrow (also known as The Scarecrow of Rommey Marsh), an historical epic/superhero movie. Its been filmed a few times - last time starring Patrick McGoohan & it has all the mystery & creepiness that Burton's films are cherished for
I really wanted to like Dumbo. Been looking forward to it for a while. While I did enjoy it, I walked out of the cinema feeling disappointed. It felt rushed, the baby mine part didn't have the feels that it should. The pink elephants on parade, was the part I thought Tim Burton would do well, but it fell flat.
There was also one scene that did not make any sense in being in the film.
It's just not good.
“I started to get troubled by why it was that it wasn’t grabbing me and I think it’s that somehow it’s lost, for me, it’s lost its jum”
What? 😐
Charm
Couldn't agree more re the pistols sentiments and I will not be taking my 6 year old to see this film. The original Cinderella has more than enough edge and scare to it than for me to add this retelling to her already vivid imagination and insight. I have a hard enough time explaining curses, poison apples, and Lion king death without adding amputee and war to the list at her stage in life. I'm not one for shielding my kid from the world but neither am I for introducing her to the realities of post stress disorder and juvenile mourning unless there's a damn good reason for it.
And you know they are only doing it so they can maintain their IP before it expires.
When we were kids, my sister made my mum literally remove our Dumbo video from the house because it was so sad she couldn't cope having it in the house, let alone watching it
Can't wait to see this!
I actually thought the same thing re the physics aspect after watching the trailer. Being live action rather than a cartoon it's much harder to accept that the laws of physics don't apply as they would in real life. Being a man of science it's something I found rather distracting just from watching the trailer. Probably gonna give this one a miss tbh
"a man of science"
ears out for Dumbo
"There is a rash..." I couldn't have put it better myself
How fortunate that Eva Green was there to step in, as presumably Helena Bonham-Carter wasn't available for this one.
Consider this, he made a movie for Disney with this plot as a direct response to Disney's corporate practices.
Just replace a couple nouns- V A Vandemere with Walt Disney and Dreamland with Disneyworld
When will Mark review 4DX?
Maybe rather than "live action remake" a term like "photo-real remake" might be better.
Or we could drop the tact and just call it "corner cutting dross"
Bang on about the pistols
"Arresting screen presence"... Marko walking that verbal tightrope with ease.
I didn't completely understand what he was inferring with that to be honest, is he saying she's one note and being ironic or does he actually like her?
@@optimisticwhovian1726 The sender implies and the receiver infers... I took it to mean he thinks she's very attractive.
Sorry I always get those two mixed up. I duno what he meant by arresting really, arresting in what way is the question. He seems to be taking a shot at her lack of acting range one moment then drops that ambiguous comment. @@paulyd6372
Mark sounds disappointed. Maybe 2.5 out of 5?
Here’s the thing...
A brilliant analysis.
WHy double the running time? That rarely ever works. All you do is stuff unnecessary things in to extend it that often add nothing to the story or aren't interesting. I care not one jot for any of the human characters, I want Timothy J Mouse.
To be fair, it's a short short film. And even the original animated film padded out its run time. But not 2 hours..
The real question: “Did they finally get rid of Jim Crow?”
I think he's played by Will Smith in blueface.
😂
@@get-the-joke 😂😂😂
One cannot be "too old for the Dumbo story"
My daughter's review: it's a little bit too silly and a little bit too scary - and where was the mouse?
What did they think of it?
Tim Burton is to classic movies, what Oracular is to damsels in distress. He sucks the life out of them and turns then until emotionless husks.
He dismisses his own very good point at around 6:20 where he hits the nail on the head. All these cynical money making Disney live action versions of animated classics are stripped bare of any fairy tale fantasy element. Remove the animation and you end up just questioning the sense of it all. It's the same with Jungle Book and why is Hermione Granger dancing with a Beast. Daylight robbery.
That's Tim Burton's work in a nutshell. Always beautiful to look at, but has never engaged me emotionally.
Tell me this doesn't include Edward Scissor Hands? If it does, you're a monster! :)
Edward Scissorhands is one of those films that you watch back and realise it's not as good as you remember. Most of his early films are good a good watch but his only masterpiece is The Nightmare before Christmas and I think the credit there goes to Henry Selick and Danny Elfman - Burton brought the weird but they brought the wonderful!
@@GUV85 - You monster :) Edward Scissorhands is a lovely flick! It may not be a "masterpiece," but it's still a wonderfully original, quirky and emotional film...
Nah man, Edward Scissorhands is somewhat timeless. Great back then, and still great today.
Can't wait to see the Batman Returns Reunion,and what Tim does with Pink Elephants on Parade.But please Disney stop with the remakes
I might watch some of these remakes (and I mean SOME) on Netflix or TV years from now but I am not giving Disney any money for them. I'm sticking to that.
Just came back from seeing Dumbo and I have to agree. There were a lot of missed opportunities, and I think you never feel like Dumbo forms a connection with any of the humans. This is why it doesn’t feel real, and doesn’t have to do with just a visual thing. I have never seen the original Dumbo, so I am judging this without any bias at all or trying to compare it to something else and this was intentional. The suffering is something you feel, I like the ironic look at Disney itself, dreamland is Disneyland and Keaton is clearly a cynical version of Walt Disney. That all works, but the heart was still missing. I think there were too many human characters oddly, and therefore you never really got any character development from anyone and this is why the film suffered. Alice in Wonderland had the same problem but I actually prefer that film to this. It’s really annoying because the story of Dumbo is far superior but this film was just missing the beats. Why was Colin Farrell’s lack of limb never a reason for him to connect with Dumbo, another outsider for example? So many missed opportunities, but that’s just my opinion. It’s not terrible, the actors are giving it everything, apart from the girl who was quite frankly terrible, but it just misses the mark. Also Keaton was very inconsistent, trying to imitate Depp which was just cringed as hell.
See the original;, it is just lovely, in spite of the dubious treatment of the crows, (racist by todays standards), but that is just one short sequence.
That ending lol
Ah couldn’t disagree more ! Dumbo was the first movie for ages that I came out of and saw children and adults with tears rolling down their cheeks
What I got out of this review is that Mark thinks that the Sex Pistols were a joke. Blasphemy.
Kermode WAS perhaps a little too harsh, I agree. I think it'd have been more apt if you'd put a really offensive expletive before the word 'blasphemy'.
Truth be told, I've no real view on the Pistols ... back then I was more of a Prog/Classic/Blues rock kinda guy (though very much a lover of Dury, Clash, etc). That said, I AM NOW quite nostalgic for them ... but Sid was still an idiot, lol!
Maybe they should just show the old or original one again in the cinema's. However, I'm still hoping that the lion king might be good to watch cause I enjoyed the recent remake of the jungle book. But still the originals are just classic.
I knew they would ruin it ... a simple story, but it contains two of the most superbly animated sequences in film history, Pink Elephants On Parade is an absolute phantasmagoria, and the toppling of the elephant pyramid, animated by the genius animator, Vlad Tytla is quite simply the greatest piece of animation, ever. Why did they think it was a good idea?
"...oddly mechanical " 😣
Mark's Sex Pistols review is on point.
I would love to hear a full Kermode review on the Sex Pistols!
Trying to imagine some things he'd say
"Here's the thing. Glen Matlock was actually pretty good. But if the bassist in the band is the best musician, you're in trouble".
"The Sex Pistols remind me of the rebirth of Hammer Horror. It becomes a desperate parody of what came before. It's like Johnny Rotten is Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman In Black, but he thinks he's Peter Cushing in The Curse of Frankenstein".
That’s the first time I’ve actually seen mayo disgust a film with mark
These live-action remakes need to stop. It's baffling how Disney today seem to be completely clueless about the strengths of animation that can't be adapted into live-action. If you bring the visual style of a cartoon into reality, it will look goofy and fake. Realistic animals can't emote like cartoon characters and attempting to do so will more likely result in an uncanny valley effect. Exaggerated movements look normal in animation, but take you out of the movie in live-action. The Jungle Book was so far the only movie that somewhat justified the live-action approach, everything else looks like a soulless cash grab feeding off of people's nostalgia for Disney's classics.
To be honestly speaking, there are 4 live-action remakes that were no soulless cash-grabs, had truly worked and were well-received by critics and audiences, such as the cases of Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Christopher Robin.
The Dumbo cartoon dosent really have a plot, it's a series of bits, which is fine for a cartoon but not so much live action.
I'm sure it's going to be convoluted and stale, and be 3 hours long yet feels like it took weeks off my time on earth. Thanks for the warning, Mark.
Cynicism about The Sex Pistols from Kermode at the end.
They were Malcolm McLaren's boy band.
I enjoyed it, having never seen the original. And it's probably the least "Tim Burton" Tim Burton film I've seen in a long time, and that's a good thing.
Having said that, I thought Poppins Returns was naff, so each to their own.
Saw it today and enjoyed it more than I expected to after this review. It’s not too TIM BURTON and has plenty of charm. Much more it’s own film rather than a slavish remake like the awful live action B&B.
The B&B live-action is no f**king awful. It was a good one. Got a decent rating within the critic score of 71% and an audience score of 80% on rotten tomatoes, so it ain't horrible, ret**d.
Dumbo on the other hand was s**t, got a rotten rating within the critic score of 47% and 60% audience score rating.
I think the last Burton film I liked was Sleepy Hollow. They've all just been meh since then.
If this was worse than Mary Poppins Returns, I'm going to have to give it a miss...
7 sex pistols fans were enjoying this review... until the last line. Then they sceamed at their screen and hit dislike.
He's waffling a bit here. We all know what constitutes a Tim Burton movie: GOD do we know.
Burton needs to stop.
He's a shadow of his former glory.
Or just take a break from major studio projects and pursue smaller budget work for a few years. He could probably get some good mileage out of collaborating with Laica
Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?
Disney ain't getting my money
It's a kid's film, Mark?
Mark Kermode always does great reviews but I feel a score out of 10 at the end would be very beneficial
Totally agree with this review. Very disappointing.
The film’s well acted, intriguing & is well scored, however the film’s unfocused, poorly directed, lifeless & isn’t heart warming. (43%) (2/5 stars) (mixed)
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There is already an animated movie out. Not wasting my time on the new movie. 💩🙄
Operation Dumbo Drop...ped the Ball.
This movie deserves way more hate than what you’re giving it
You are too easy on this movie
Sex Pistols were just a pantomime kareaoke act? Ouch Mark, one could fully admit that John couldn't sing and Sid couldn't play bass and that the whole image of the band was the brainchild of a cheap provocateur (McClaren) but to dismiss Steve Jones and Paul Cook who were genuine musicians who could play their instruments is harsh, just cos they weren't a skiffle band or rockabilly doesn't mean they had no talent.
Did they bring back the racist crows?
They say the line but it's forced.
Jumbo cant fly.
Sorry Mark, but you over analyze the film. I am 72 and most certainly watched the original Dumbo but it seems
to me that too many critics are seeing clutter where there is, instead, beautiful sets and costumes and a story
of redemption and acceptance.
The acting from the kids was poor.
Awful film. All the magic from the original gone like Willie wonka. Tim Burton should stop directing children’s classics as he just keep ruining them
god this film was horrible-expensive and charmless
rubbish film