Watching a movie is simply super Dumbo 4K. Circus impresario Max Medici (Danny DeVito) appoints former circus star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Millie and Joe as guardians of a newborn baby elephant, whose incredibly large ears immediately become the subject of constant jokes and ridicule from Holt’s colleagues workshop. Suddenly learning that Dumbo can fly, the circus owner decides to cash in on the elephant’s unusual abilities. An energetic entrepreneur V.A. Wendever (Michael Keaton), who decides to make the baby Dumbo the main star of his new grandiose entertainment enterprise Fairy-Tale Country. Speaking with aerial gymnast Colette Marchand (Eva Green), Dambo’s favorite, the audience, conquers new heights until Holt accidentally finds out that there are a lot of dark secrets and secrets hidden under the brilliant facade of “Fairy Tale Country.” Download Dumbo 4K.
Dumbo 4K ReviewFormer circus star, dashing rider Holt Ferrier (Colin Farrell) returns home from the war to his children. They live together with the Medici Brothers circus troupe - who are actually no brothers, is run by one person here, Max Medici (Denis De Vito). Holt not only returned not completely intact (in the war he lost his hand), he also sold out all the horses that were needed for his number: times, they say, are complicated. Instead of the previous work, Max offers him to look after the elephants: they just bought a new female, and she is about to give birth to offspring. True, it’s not what everyone expected - the ridiculous big-eared elephant is born to the elephant, which later turns out to be flying and will attract the attention of the circus magnate Vandevira (Michael Keaton).
As if little “Disney” had swallowed up studios and ground franchises, for their new adventure “but let's re-shoot all our cartoons in general” they began to actively recruit eminent directors, whose zenith of fame, however, had long passed. Raging Briton Guy Ritchie was sent to sunny Agrab, and the grim good-natured Tim Burton was given an eared elephant, tame mice and the rest of the circus with horses (more precisely, without horses). Why the corporation needed to put directors on purely commercial projects, whose last films paid off with grief in half (and in the case of Richie did not pay off at all), it is not entirely clear, but certainly not for the sake of their author’s poetics.
Burton is even less here than in his most atypical works - the academic Big Eyes or the debut Pee Wee's Great Adventure. Here and there his special sense of humor is visible, and the signature mackerel is only barely guessed in the expressionist scenery of the amusement park or the design of Dumbo Ultra HDR himself, a typical freak hero, a cute underdog, Dumbo UHD Ushi-Krylia. This movie is so safe and “ordinary” that you can list its weaknesses, you can’t even see the film in your eyes - just remember everything that annoyed you in previous such adaptations. Inexpressiveness - visual and narrative, - caramel, overabundance of CGI, continue the series yourself. In general, any rogue could remove such a thing - at least David Yates.
Only the actors from his old guard remind of Tim's great days in Dumbo 4K: Danny De Vito and Michael Keaton, the indefatigable cute eccentrics, the soul and heart of the whole film. It's just that there are few of them criminally, as well as a bit of Dumbo 4K himself (he doesn’t even speak now), and the cute (but boring) Colin Farrell and Eva Green. The main characters of the remake were two children whose characters you forget exactly at the moment when the credits crawl across the screen, which, judging by the new Mary Poppins, is becoming a kind of trend for Disney. The boy is still trying somehow, but the girl-actress Nico Parker has an emotional range at about the level of a piece of clay. As luck would have it, it was on her share in the film that the largest number of inspiring monologues fell out - she pronounces them, of course, with an absolutely stone face and an empty look, as if reading a text from a teleprompter. Maybe he really reads.
In some places, the Dumbo 4K hits so past - primarily stylistically - that you involuntarily start looking for malicious intent: in previous years, Burton, it seemed, could have removed better with the toe of his left foot. The self-awareness of the film is also hinted at by its semantic core - too hypocritical and tactless to take it seriously. Just think: the biggest Disney movie monopolists are trying to brazenly sell the idea that large corporations and monopolies are very, very bad.
Michael Keaton, an expressive charismatic businessman who throws beautiful slogans about how to follow a dream and never give up, embodies the local evil (Burton witty emphasizes the angles). Besides the fact that he is obviously a selfish greed, Keaton periodically buys other people's circuses (!) And owns a large amusement park (!!) - unless it is named after him, otherwise it would be completely indecent. It’s too handy to take his hero as a satire on Walt Disney - not so much a historical figure, but an embodiment of what his main creation has turned into. Here, even no speculation is necessary: such a flashy parallel is easier to notice than not to notice. But even so, this strange epigram is one hundred times more interesting than the whole film and leads to one of two (equally curious) conclusions. Either Burton understands everything perfectly and, together with the scriptwriters, is engaged in a special form of industrial sabotage, or they did not watch something in the strict leadership of Disney.