Tim Burton's 'Dumbo' Should Win the Weekend
by EG
Tim Burton's live-action/CGI remake of the Disney animated classic Dumbo is likely to be the top-grossing movie in theaters this weekend. However, critics are not saying many nice things about the film. Read on for details.
Tim Burton's live-action Dumbo takes flight this weekend in theaters, nearly eight decades after Disney's classic animated pic about a baby elephant with fantastical ears first played on the big screen.
The family film should have no trouble wresting the crown from holdover Us with a domestic debut of $50 million or more for Disney and Burton, according to prelease tracking. Dumbo is opening simultaneously in virtually every major foreign market, including China.
One hurdle: the movie is far from a critical darling (its current Rotten Tomatoes score is 54 percent). Then again, Burton and Disney's live-action Alice in Wonderland — which had a 51 percent score — grossed $1.02 billion at the global box office in 2010.
Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Eva Green star in Dumbo, which tells the story of a crumbling circus whose troubles are compounded when a baby elephant is declared a laughingstock because of the pachyderm's abnormally large ears. But when the troupe discovers the animal can fly, the circus makes a comeback. Enter a persuasive entrepreneur with not-so-nice intentions.
Arcade Fire performs the iconic song "Baby Mine" for the end credits of Dumbo.
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