Sorry to sound mean but your voice is oddly funny you sound like a very pissed off Dad but he's trying his best not to yell so that the wife doesn't get angry
So here's the Possum lore so far: -Possum is friends with Bigfoot and is neighbors with Cthulhu. -The circus is kidnapping animals so they can entertain the humans -Possum is under house arrest for releasing his "monkey". -Possum use to have a kid but he doesn't tell us what happened to the kid so for all we know they could've been turned into glue or dog food -Possum hates giraffes -Possum also went to war, which affected his mental health.
With Meet the Robinsons it ends with the quote from Walt Disney. “Keep moving forward.” With these remakes they aren’t moving the studio forward. They are moving them backwards.
I'd like to note that the crows in the original movie were the only characters other than the mouse who treated Dumbo decently, were the smartest characters in the film, and went out of their way to help a fellow outcast get back at his oppressors. When I was a kid, I loved the crows, and to me they came across as characters I was supposed to love, not laugh at.
That very aptly sums up most people's reactions to Dumbo's Crows. They were, indeed, one of the most lovable parts of the cast. Most folks who are throwing a hissy-fit over them are either grifting or are so emotionally fragile that swallowing them at birth likely would have been a mercy.
Yeah I understand exactly what you’re saying. However the crows were a racist stereotype of Southern black men, but they also represented characters who were good. So in a way, it’s not that evil and racist because it shows that some white people back then were not extremely racist. And saw black people as just that, people. People who can be lovable and good. But they also poked fun at thier style. Many things back then were poked fun at in cartoons. So they should’ve included it in the movie. But obviously they wouldn’t...
Well I mean... The crows kinda represented "Jim Crow", even one of the crows' names is "Jim" so... regardless of how we all loved them, even me... but I'm not gonna turn a blind eye at something that was inherently wrong. Its like laughing at some jokes made in Germany about the Jews. No matter how witty the joke is, its speaks to the shittiest side of human history, and I'm not gonna endorse that.
At this point, Disney is no longer a company that represents quality. They’ve become greedy due to their success. Walt would be so disappointed in his company
Greedy? No, they are hemorrhaging money and they know exactly why. They are controlled by a rootless international clique of hostile outsiders who seek to destroy Western civilization and turn us all into brainwashed chattel slaves. massive trust funds and investment Banks pull the strings of these companies and ensure that they will never truly go broke because the propaganda and disinformation they push is far more valuable in the long run than actually turning a profit. These people print money for themselves and their friends so lowly concerns like "turning a profit" are irrelevant to them.
What I'm wondering is why they didn't have Millie sing "Baby Mine" as a lullaby her mother sang for her before she died? That would've drawn the parallels between her and Dumbo better and would've tied things together better than using random people we don't really care about.
The fact i was more invested in the struggle of one Possum's will to survive against the circus is a testament to how you are just a better storyteller than most modern disney films.
I think it was nice of them to give that department store mannequin a job. She was only slightly less convincing as a real human than Alan Bagh in Birdemic.
original dumbo was to save disney company from bankruptcy. which pretty much explains its flaws, it was done with small budget to hopefully make enough money for disney to climb up from a ditch. so we have dumbo to thank for disney owning everything today.
That ending bit with the "animal-free" circus was just really dumb to me. So like, all the animals are set free, ALL of them.......except the horse one-armed dude rides. So....let me get this straight. They let the elephants, monkeys, doves, even the domesticated pet mice (that will most likely never make it a day in the wild and would most likely end up being stepped on or snatched up by a predator) but they keep the horse for two performers to ride around on and do tricks on it's back in a small, cramped arena? I don't think they thought that message through enough. Going to the extreme of letting small, vulnerable animals to fend for themselves, but they still keep the horse. (also, I almost left my little sister in the movie theatre when seeing this movie it was that bad, especially that little girl's acting. I can't remember what line she said specifically, but I had to step outside for a bit before having to return to my little sister to watch the rest of that crap. She promptly forgot about the movie a week later. Waste of time and money XD) So in other words...thanks for tearing this shit apart, Mr Possum.
Not to mention that it would be WAY too expensive to release them back into their proper habitats, and if they didn't do so released them into the rest of America, where they could become invasive species and devastate the population.
I'm totally fine with animals in a circus. They just have to be treated properly. And maybe not exotic animals in an environment foreign to them. Similar with a zoo. We have one here that has pigs, ducks, chickens, ponies, donkeys, and lamas. All animals that do fine in the natural environment we have here. Nothing exotic, but you can get very close. The chickens are even allowed to freely roam the surrounding park.
The original Dumbo movie was about a lost elephant with larger then normal ears, which then he uses to fly In the remake, it's about a little girl and hear pet baby elephant. They turned Dumbo into a pet movie
The worst part about that baby song is that in the original Dumbo's mother sang it to him, but in the remake it's someone else who sings it because it was in the original. It's not even directed at Dumbo.
@@juggernogsoda4515 It's a scene about Dumbos mother singing to Dumbo, and showing that she loves him, even though she can't be with him. It's not a little detail.
6:50 Honestly I'd much rather have a racial stereotype that was treated with some dignity and given a intelligent role rather than a racial stereotype that's just there to be a punching bag.
Or, how about neither??? I pray you've grown wiser since making this comment. The crows were minstrels. An allegory for "Jim Crow" as in the "Jim Crow-Era South." Cutting the crows was the best call.
@@chandlerbingbong5773 And replacing them with a REAL BLACK PERSON that gets pushed around by Danny DeVito was somehow a better replacement? At least no real people actually get hurt when it's a freaking cartoon. I mean how many children around the age of 10 do you think saw the crows and thought "yeah that's how black people are like", let alone even heard of Jim Crow at their age?
@@jamesgreen1166 He didn't direct James and the Giant Peach though Also, I found a good podcast channel called Almost Cult Classics, the sister channel to Hats Off Entertainment. Their episode about Burton did make me appreciate him more, but he's still pretty hit or miss
I'm listening to a podcast on Dan Brown's Digital Fortress novel and he introduced a beautiful supergenius who has to have everything explained to her. The dumb female is a sexist trope and the dumb (but acts like a know-it-all) female is equally as sexist, but one gets a pass in today's Hollywood.
Nobody really talks about it, but the designated cuts to black for ad breaks are so much better than other youtubers that have their ads cut directly into every other sentence.
I mean to be fair the same thing happens anytime you watch a movie or TV show that had commercials when it first aired but they’ve been cut out for Netflix or DVD. So people who pay for RU-vid Premium should be use to the concept and I guess I don’t really see it as that big of a deal.
You obviously missed out on The Far Side showing what happened to Dumbo. "Becoming a Rogue in his later years, Dumbo terrorized the nation's airways" The picture shows an angry looking adult elephant in front of the cockpit of a jumbo jet with the crew scared and in a panic
Because Disney is too big to fail yet they still want to play it safe and maximise profits- and what better way to play it safe than use the material you already know people like because you already did it once? Also they want any new things to also reach foreign markets... like China, whose censors are incredibly strict. So most new movies play it safe for china's censors.
Here's something I really don't get about this movie; I love Tim Burton, I haven't liked literally everything he's ever done, but I really do love him. But here's the thing about him; you need to set him up with a very specific kind of movie for him to really live up to his potential, otherwise you'll get a failure. He's a horror man, and even things he's made that aren't strictly horror are still a lot more dark than a lot of movies for kids are. So if you give him Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas, he knocks it out of the park, but if you give him something else, like Dumbo for example, it doesn't work. It could've worked, if Disney allowed him to be change more about the story and be more out of the box, because then he could've made it a darker, more horrific take on Dumbo, which would've made it both original and fit with his style. But since they didn't, poor Burton's left flailing and gasping for air under a project that was never meant for him.
This is such an important point. People hating on Tim Burton just isn't fair. He's made so many productions as iconic as they are, but if he doesn't have enough creative freedom, it ends up sucking super badly because it just doesn't work
Agree. Tim Burton is a type-cast director. Guy works best with Gothic horror romance. Y'know who else is a type-cast director for horror in my eyes despite not being aware of it? James Wan.
Dumbo was gifted a feather by the crows and that's what gave him the confidence to fly. And he held it with his trunk rather than snorting it into his trunk. Removing the crows and changing how the feather is handled makes this a movie other than Dumbo. It's not the same at all. The message behind the gifted feather was the idea that believing in yourself will help you achieve the impossible. They gave the iconic part of the Crows to some kids and it feels so cheap and pandering. The original Dumbo took risks. Dumbo got accidentally drunk in the original, which I admire honestly because you didn't know what the hell was going to happen in the original. It took risks and it told a great story. It wasn't much of a story, but it told it in an interesting way. Unlike the remake.
I was on a Disney Cruise when Dumbo released so they had it in the theater, that night the waves were so violent that half the theater had to run out to vomit, the other half ran out because it was live action Dumbo
@crazy sad clown man To clarify, a friend wanted to see it, and invited me to come along. I went because I value the time spent with a friend even if I don't think the movie will be very good. My expectations were low going in, and even then I left disappointed, though we had a good time mocking the movie afterwards.
"Because getting your arm blown off while your friends are choking on mustard gas, while you're being showered with limbs from nearby exploding mortar shells, is just a minor inconvenience." That perfectly summarizes the standard Disney set for their live action remakes. I just pray that Ratatouille isn't going to be their next victim.
I've seen enough tragedies to know that a fire like that in a crowded place like that in that time period claimed dozens of lives, with hundreds of wounded.
It's weird how the film has so many advance stuff, that it should have taken place around the late 1940s, or the year 2119.(I mean, I'm pretty sure magical bubbles aren't going to exist until I'm 60.)
Also real question here...why does movie even take place in 1919, from what im getting in this review it literally plays nothing to the plot. This move couldve taken place in any other decade
To be fair to this movie, Elephants are some of the smartest animals in the world, so the idea that one who's lived her whole life around humans might learn to understand a degree of human speech isn't quite as implausible as it sounds. A _newborn_ elephant understanding speech is a whole different story however, though now that I mention it I suppose the original movie did that as well.
yeah but the difference is, this remake tries to be kinda(?) realistic for some reason, while the original doesn't at all. so the remake is just all around a way worse movie, it's actually terrible.
What annoys me most about these live action films is that there's too much screen time for the people we could care less about because they're one dimensional as hell.
It's a Dumbo remake. Why would we want to watch their fanfic OCs instead of the characters we liked from the original? The Godzilla movies have the same problem.
I want everyone to remember that the Possum pierced a demon with a broom, meaning that 3 clowns are higher in the Possum Reviews power tier list than 1 demon.
I’m especially mad that they didn’t consider the rest of the animals at Nightmare Island. We’re just supposed to assume that they all died, and that no one cares, because they’re not a supernatural baby elephant that can fly.
I love the reference to Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy cave joke. "hey stupid bears! You can't get me I'm in a cave." "He's right, booboo. Us bears are afraid of caves!" "Why are we so lame, yogi?"
I like that the real world is solid white and the inside of your house is solid orange, but the basement has proper color for everything, where we learn more about Possum tragic backstory.
I sincerely hope that every single Disney live action film fails as horrifically as Mulan. Such atrocious, creatively bankrupt abominations to storytelling.
First, Disney removed the roustabouts and the crows from the Dumbo story because their implied racism might (somehow) disturb children. Then they added an amputee and someone getting crushed to death by a circus tent pole. Yes, I'm sure those won't disturb children at all.
I always found something weird about that little girl, the way she never expressed emotion but was stoic throughout most of this literal trainwreck. I find her more Children of the Corn kind of movie than this, although this barely qualifies as family entertainment. I can see her in horror movies down the line.
That girl is a doughter of a director (or a producer) and an actress- forgot their names but you can google . She is there becouse of her parents. This is a prime example of no talent, she is such a terrible actress that drove me crazy and I couldn't finish this shit of a movie.
It's good that my two favourite Disney movies are safe from Disney's life-action remake madness, because first, both weren't very successful and second, with Disney's standards for production quality, it would cost astronomical ammounts of money to create either a sunken city or a planet full of treasure.
Yknow, I never understood why elephants would be afraid of something so much smaller than they, but then I see people wig out over little tiny bugs all the time so maybe it’s not so far fetched.
1. there was no “why did the Goblin turn on the stove?” joke in this one. 2. Why did I feel like the daughter was CGI as well? 3. You don’t want to know how accurate the “being turned into Glue or Dogfood” part is.
". . . by a bunch of racist stereotypes." Please listen to Cab Calloway or any of dozens of black bands from the 1930s to the 1970s. The crows are not stereotypes of black PEOPLE _per se,_ but rather of black musician groups who would often start their tracks with this high-energy back-and-forth badinage. You can see elements of it in more "modern" music, if you listen to, for example, Afroman (another self-referential joke) and his song _Because I Got High,_ which has a section where the lead says, "I was gonna pay my child support," and one of the other individuals (I don't know the position this individual played) shouts, "No you wasn't!" in the background.
The only things I can remember from the original Dumbo are the pink elephants and the crows. The rest was just so forgettable. Not the smartest idea to cut the crows from this. They were at least interesting.
Giraffe noises are too low for *most* people’s hearing range, I remember the frustration of being told I was lying as I talked about liking them “talking to me”, because “giraffes don’t make noises”. At this point in my life, my hearing is better above and below normal human range than in it.
I have finals right around the corner. Seeing this pop into my feed gave me the biggest sense of relief. Did we figure out why Goblin turned on the stove?!
The music in the original Dumbo is great. Plus, I love the times when they clearly just let the animators run wild. And boy that pink elephants number is WILD.
As a train nerd I’d like to point out that locomotive pulling the circus train looks like it’s from the 1860s and not the 1910s when much larger and more powerful locomotives would be the norm.
@@MakayKakescupcakes on the plus side it wasn’t profitable, it it making over 300m is sad in and of itself. Even if it didn’t cover the budget and marketing costs
Someone probably said this, but, : African elephants have huge ears - and Indian elephants have small ears. Dumbo has huge ears- his mom has small ones. She is Indian, he is African. You would think someone in the production would have notice.
Fun elephant fact: the healthiest, longest-lived elephants in the world are the working elephants used to haul lumber. They outlive wild elephants by a bit, and zoo elephants by a lot. Lift weights. You'll live longer.
This is the big problem with Disney's live action remakes: they try to fix what ain't broke. In many cases, they just wind up making things worse. What's with the kid playing Millie? It's like she lost her personality in a tragic bowling accident or something. Why did the goblin turn on the stove?
6:52 I am a Nigerian and I loved the crows as a kid when I first saw the original Dumbo in 2002👍 They were kind to him, they apologized after mocking him, taught him to fly and helped re-united him with his mom. I was genuinely surprised when I learned that Americans viewed them as racist and it still baffles me today. Why do they view the most weird things as racist?
Because they don't really know what racism is, which might explain why they keep failing under that mistake. Is not making stereotypes, is mocking those stereotypes and something DUE TO THEIR CULTURE/RACE. They're stereotypes, but they're never mocked; if anything, they're taken seriously with the feather and stuff, which is weird for a film made in the 50's.
The three crows were the kindest, friendliest, most helpful characters from the original movie. I don't see how they are considered offensive beyond the being black crows.
Batman and the Penguin, reunited at last. Danny Elfman music, Tim Burton directing...HBC could be a decent Harley. This could've been a Batman Returns sequel.
The narrative also doesn’t care about the other Spanish Flu victims at the circus, like Natalya, much like how it stopped caring about the animals at Nightmare Island. They are forgotten even when Rufus also dies, which would have made the scene a lot sadder. For all we know those other victims were turned into glue or dog food.
I remember this remake being ugly, boring, and pointless. The only good thing that happened when I watched it was when I was leaving the theater and a bird tried to fly away, but then hit the glass, and then it flew higher, and then it flew away. So in other words, the best part of my experience with this movie wasn't even in the movie. But my biggest problems are with the elephant stuff. First, the elephant CGI in this movie was awful and noticeable. I'm glad they fixed this with The One and Only Ivan, but in Dumbo, it was just awful. Second, the elephants didn't even sound like real elephants. Instead, they sounded like monsters from a horror movie or something. No trumpets, stock sound effects, or anything resembling an elephant. Just these loud roars and growls that sound like they're meant for some mutated monster. Third, while they are my favorite animal, I found the happy ending that Dumbo and his mom got to be pretty pointless to the overall movie. Again, it was done better with The One and Only Ivan. As always, this was a well-done review.
I've got a personal bone to pick with this movie. Dumbo was one of my favorite movies, and I was devastated when the sequel was canned. It looked miles better than this.
The original may not have been perfect,but at least it was still more memeable than this remake. Also I wish y'all a good day,so that's one nice thing.
Now i expect there to be a caracter arc with Possum getting more and more paranoid with every review to the point that everytime he does a review and something happens (a call, or something) he thinks it's someone trying to stop him and goes mental
can I just mention: using an ad to actually push the plot forward of the mini story you put together is so incredibly fucking funny and intelligent at the same time
I thought that Danny Devito was the circus ringleader in the movie "Big Fish"?? He is in THIS one too?? Did he like,, REALLY become a circus ringleader or something, and is just fitting into his movie scripts??😅
Tim Burton directed this Dumbo remake as well as Big Fish. I guess Burton really liked Devito as a ring leader in Big Fish so brought him back for Dumbo.
I don’t think they’d have to digitally remove his arm. They could just have him pull his real arm into his sleeve and hide it under his shirt. Maybe with a fake stub worn on his shoulder so it looks more convincing. I once saw someone make a Halloween costume like that.
I mean, I like Tim Burton as a director, but only when he applies his style to his own shit and not on already established franchises that had, yunno, the opposite of dark, creepy, gray, dystopian-like tones.
