WORKING FOR PEANUTS Farrell costars with a disturbingly winsome digital elephant in Burton’s new version of the animated classic. Many adults remember Disney’s Dumbo (1941) mainly for its misery. Like ...

Director Tim Burton’s live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature “Dumbo” offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times ...

Originally based on the book written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, 1941's Dumbo was the fourth animated feature film made by Walt Disney Productions, following up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ...

SEATTLE — It really is something to see a cartoon come to life, and that's how watching Dumbo feels. The new film - based on the 1941 animated movie – is a visual wonder. The mixture of live action, ...

This image released by Disney shows Nico Parker, left, in a scene from "Dumbo." (Disney via AP) The original "Dumbo" was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and ...