Rating: G
Genre:
Children's/Family
Release Date: 06/06/2006
Dubbed: French/Espanol/English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 64 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic, Scary Moments
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
The shortest of Disney's major animated features
Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo is even separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Timothy Mouse offers the hand of friendship to Dumbo, encouraging the pouty pachyderm to exploit his "different" qualities for fame and fortune. After trepidatiously indulging in a vat of booze, Dumbo awakens in a tall tree. Goaded by a group of jive-talking crows, Dumbo discovers that his outsized ears have given him the ability to fly. The musical score by
Frank Churchill and
Oliver Wallace won Oscars for them both.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide