Disney’s beloved 1941 film Dumbo had a Tim Burton remake back in 2019 and fans had no idea what they were about to witness when the film came out in cinemas
Dumbo is seriously dark.
The 2019 remake of the beloved 1941 Disney film has a very dark plot and many viewers were scarred after watching, with no idea what they were signing themselves up for. The film follows Holt, a circus performer, who has to look after an elephant with large ears named Dumbo.
He learns that Dumbo can fly, which results in a number of crooks attempting to take the elephant for their own. The film was directed by Tim Burton and social media was ablaze with stunned comments after fans returned from the cinema.
Over on Reddit, at the time viewers branded Burton’s Dumbo as “nightmare fuel” while one person wrote: “It’s Tim Burton, what do you expect?”
Another said: “This however definitely does not keep to original story and it’s really nightmare fuel, I whispered to my husband: ‘What did they do to Dumbo?”
“They butchered it and turned it into some creepy freaky remake but what else would you expect from Tim Burton?? Keep the original Disney, stop making remakes and ruining everything!!!!”
However, some have defended the remake and one person explained that the film is “meant to be terrifying”.
Someone else wrote that the film is “dark and somewhat depressing throughout” and explained that they felt the sweet elephant was “more of a prop than a main character”.
They continued: “In the original, since it’s a cartoon you can clearly see Dumbo being said and you get to emotionally connect with him through facial expressions, but in live action since you can’t do that, the only way they could show Dumbo being said was by showing [him] and his mother holding trunks.”
More comments flooded in defending Tim Burton’s style as a furious film fan suggested that the director’s movies “are never usually dark,” but people assume so because the universes in his films “are usually horror themed”.
“For example, Nightmare Before Christmas is set in a spooky world but is about as scary as a Mario game and some are just straight up parodies like Frankenweenie.”
Dumbo stars Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Nico Parker, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Jana Posna, Edd Osmond and Alan Arkin.
The film was the first of five planned live-action adaptations of iconic Disney films, which also included Aladdin, The Lion King, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Lady and the Tramp.
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