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The year of the Disney live-action remakes has started well.
The first comments are for Tim Burton Dumbo, a re-imagined of the very expensive animated adventure of 1941 on a flying elephant – and they are less than stellar.
This is the first of three 21st century transformations of Disney's back catalog planned for this year. Guy Ritchie at the helm Aladdin must go out on May 23, while a new version of The Lion King roars in cinemas on July 17th.
Despite an impressive cast including Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Eva Green and Alan Arkin, Dumbo got a metacritical score of 52 out of 31 reviews. This places it just above the teenage horror Room of escape (48) and rom-com polarization What men want (49).
Write for Time magazine, Stephanie Zacharek thought that this Dumbo was "ostentatious and overworked". "It's less of a work of imagination than to say how much Burton thinks he's imaginative."
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Dumbo has received dubious reviews from film critics around the world.
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Dumbo is a live recreation of the Disney animated film of 1941.
It was a feeling taken up by Variety Owen Gleiberman magazine. Describing this as an "excessively impatient, surly, burtonized but normalized remake, very comical but ultimately rather mundane". "It transforms a miraculous story into a routine story by weighing it down with a lot of bolts and bolts that it does not need – it's hard and forgettable … and apart from that FX elephant, the movie does not offer a unique character that we emotionally hangs on. "
The reception was not so much better on the other side of the Atlantic. The telegraphRobbie Collin commented, "The problem with this latest addition to Disney's ever-growing range of recycled clbadics is not that it is too close to the studio's original animated masterpiece, but that its that blurring the simplicity of the original nursery rhyme and neutralizing her famous emotional lash sustained ".
Another British writer Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian accepted, simply stating that "it was painfully defeated".
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Danny DeVito returns to the honor to Dumbo.
however, Dumbo was not completely without partisans. Empire Ben Travis, of the magazine, has found "an enchanting blend of Disney flicker and Tim Burton's dark fantasy that is at its best when it comes off the beaten track". "Come get the super cute elephant, stay at the glorious meeting of Keaton and DeVito."
The Seattle Times& # 39; Soren Andersen was also a fan. "The mastery of this material by Burton and his masterly visual sense make it Dumbo an engaging pleasure. Like this seductive elephant, it really soars. "
The kiwi audience will be able to make up its own mind about the film when it debuts in New Zealand theaters on Thursday.
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