This movie is much bigger and more complicated, as everyone on set (from costume designer Colleen Atwood to production designer Rick Heinrichs, both longtime Burton collaborators) stressed how important it was for Burton to have actual sets, costumes, and props this time around. Visiting the set of “Dumbo” back in 2017, it was easy to understand what the film would become because so much of it was physically there.īurton’s “Dumbo” (out March 29 th everywhere) takes its inspiration from the animated classic but doesn’t adhere much to the narrative. It was a far cry from the knotty intellectualism that tripped up “Fantasia.” And in some ways, Tim Burton’s new “ Dumbo” can been seen as a similar attempt to recapture authenticity, after his earlier Disney live action remake “Alice in Wonderland” (a blockbuster, for sure, but one that was awash in computerized sets and imagery).
This was a movie that aimed to tug at your heartstrings, with messages that were simple and relatable. “Dumbo” was seen, in many ways, as a course correction it was based on something inherently populist (a roll-a-book aimed at children) and clocked in at just over an hour (“Fantasia” had a runtime of a whopping 126 minutes). It followed “ Fantasia,” Walt’s wildly ambitious concert film, one that didn’t do what the studio had hoped on either a critical or commercial level. Disney’s original “ Dumbo,” released in 1941, was a deliberate attempt at doing something lean, mean and emotionally resonant.
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