"Dumbo", next off the rank, was made cheaply, quickly, without fuss. A beautiful film, 10/10 Bethany Coxĭisney had spent vastly more money than he'd planned on "Pinnochio" and "Fantasia", and got little of it back. Great idea, Disney, about the flying elephant, although Don Bluth used a similar idea 50 years later for Pebble and the Penguin. In conclusion, I rejoiced when Dumbo conquered his fears, when it looked impossible. I found the song "Elephants on Parade" catchy and I love how trippy the whole sequence is. For me, the highlight was Dumbo's dream, with the elephants dancing(a bit unrealistic but very imaginative), with ballet-like incidental music towards the end. Timothy the mouse is also memorable, a bit like Dumbo's conscience in a sense. In regard to the crows, I saw nothing racist about them, they are stereotypical yes in a sense but in a positive way. The song "Baby of Mine" is so sad, that I always cry when I see this film because of it, Casey Jnr is very rousing and having a good laugh during "Seen an Elephant Fly". Dumbo's mother was like Bambi's mother, wise and memorable, and like Dumbo, misunderstood. Dumbo is an elephant born with big ears, but who cares? True beauty comes from within. Films like these will mould your children's emotional stability instead of keeping them at a safe distance and selling them toys.ĭumbo for me is a mini- masterpiece, with beautiful animation, an inspiring message and the sweetest elephant on screen. I can remember more than anything being profoundly affected by the "Baby Mine" number from Dumbo, where he visits his imprisoned mother. You shouldn't be afraid of your children showing emotion. They may not be as harmless as the kind of movie Disney and others shove out today. I say, bring your kids back to Dumbo, Pinnochio, Bambi, and the like. It is execrable, and it is simply pathetic how bad films like it are nowadays. I revisited Dumbo, by the way, on the same night that I first watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, destined to be one of the most successful films of all time. It's truly sad how far Disney has fallen. When I come back to those films now, I recognize that they are all marvelous films and gave Walt Disney much deserved success. Timothy Q Mouse is a great character, the animation is so concise and perfect, great songs, the message that if you believe you can overcome your handicaps you will so inspiring and beautiful, and the movie so short and sweet it will forever retain its appeal.Īs a kid, I would watch over and over several Disney features: Pinnochio, Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, and Dumbo. Some terrific songs: Look Out for Mr Stork, Casey Junior (the train song), Pink Elephants, When I see an elephant fly and Baby Mine. One of the best, most inventive sequences in animation history. oh, its too much! The pink elephants sequence is as close to trippy Disney ever got - and its brilliant. A beautiful sequence begins: the beautiful song "Baby Mine" plays as she cradles him in her trunk, and when Dumbo leaves she can't see him, and she stretches her trunk as far as she can out the window to try and reach him, and. Dumbo's mother spends the movie imprisoned in a carriage labelled "mad elephant" - and surely one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking scenes i've ever seen plays out when Dumbo and his mother have contact only by touching trunks, through the bars in the window of her cell. Mrs Jumbo rearing up and destroying the big top to protect Dumbo from taunting kids is an incredible scene. The entire opening sequence, till the gossipy elephants start talking, plays out without words, and its like the best silent movies. Dumbo's not saying a single word means his entire character is created through the physical. But it also contains some of Disney's best visual poetry. All the other elephants shun Dumbo for his gigantic ears, and his mother has been locked up for protecting him, so he's all alone in the world.
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