Dumbo is one of Disney’s most efficiently told films, clocking in at just over one hour yet conveying such powerful notions on discrimination and motherhood.

| Jun 18, 2024

Outside of the film's animation, there is little for the audience to truly appreciate outside of the film's more basic emotional swings.

| Oct 21, 2023

Dumbo [is] a charming picture filled with marvelously conceived episodes. Despite this, Disney continues in it a development the problematic nature of which has grown more and more apparent since Snow-White.

| Nov 23, 2020

The first half of the film barely contains any dialogue, as Dumbo grows up without any need for conversation - he actually never speaks throughout the film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 5, 2020

I love stories about friendship and Dumbo certainly gives us a great one.

| Original Score: A | May 9, 2019

The imagination that went into conceptualizing each segment is astounding, with the drunken "pink elephants" sequence a particular highlight.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 28, 2019

...most interested in capturing the shadings and sounds of sadness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2019

Though the character's eventual comic triumph is never in doubt, there are traumatic moments along the way, including an extraordinary, nightmarish drunk sequence that suggests the animators had early access to LSD.

| Sep 15, 2018

A Disney animation classic for all ages and all times.

| Original Score: A | Jul 31, 2013

Dumbo was for Disney what The Old Man and the Sea was for Hemingway: a simple but powerful story that's brilliantly rendered and succeeds precisely because it is so simple, archetypal, and true.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 29, 2011

Another magical experience that will have the mother's crying and the kids cheering!

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2011

Perfection, thy name is Dumbo.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 21, 2011

A 1941 Disney animated feature about a harassed little elephant with big ears and his friendship with an imaginative mouse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2011

Disney classic will still make you cry!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date.

| Nov 3, 2009

One of the most emotionally potent of all animated movies; I might be inclined to say, of all movies, period.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 31, 2009

Touching, comic, visually inventive and emotionally convincing, this remains a jewel in the crown of Disney's golden age.

| Sep 2, 2008

It's one of Disney's most charming and perfectly proportioned films, uninflated by the cultural pretensions Uncle Walt was fond of slipping in.

| Sep 2, 2008

There's a pleasant little story, plenty of pathos mixed with the large doses of humor, a number of appealing new animal characters, lots of good music, and the usual Disney skillfulness in technique.

| Aug 28, 2008

It just tells a great story and has beautiful moments of powerful emotion that can bring a tear to the eye even 65 years after it was made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2006