Movie of the Week: Dumbo

[jacey]

Yes, OK, I admit, I couldn't resist this. I saw the original movie when I was a kid, but apart from ther fact that the cute baby elephant flies and Mrs Jumbo is ripped away from her son, I couldn't really remenber the plot. This is Tim Burton's live action verison with Colin Farrell and Eva Green as the two adult leads and Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins playing Farrell's kids who discover the baby elephant's flying abilities. There follows a plot in which an evil circus owner (Michael Keaton) plots to put Dumbo in his own mega-circus and thereby split up Danny DeVito's small family circus. It's all good clean fun with some mild peril to scare the kids a bit. Well worth a watch on a wet Wednesday afternoon.