In his live-action remake of Disney’s “Dumbo,” Tim Burton plays with a legacy that he has helped burnish for decades, only to set it gleefully ablaze. One of Disney’s simplest, sweetest heart-tuggers ...

Let’s get this out of the way up top. Dumbo just ain’t Dumbo without the elephant wearing a tiny hat, getting heckled by racist crows, and being bossed around by a mouse from Brooklyn. If you can get ...

Understandably, audiences might be apprehensive. In recent years Burton has been hit and miss. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and the Alice films were corporate crowd pleasers and felt at ...

I didn’t want to see Tim Burton’s “Dumbo.” The trailer made me cry every dang time I saw it. I never saw the animated original. (Somehow, I managed to miss animated fare like “Dumbo” and “The Jungle ...