Dumbo

We've been Disney regulars for some time now and Dumbo is the latest. It's a predictable but engaging and it was a much better outing for me than the previous one, Mary Poppins Returns. May be because I had some expectations from MPR but knew nothing of Dumbo's history. Anu said the movie was a little too violent for her and I can understand that. My primary complaint was that they were hell-bent on uniting the baby and its mother in such a hurry. It came at the cost of believability and usefulness of many characters(and actors) and reduced them to mere spectators of a grand show. I mean, that was one thing I couldn't predict.

Hey, and what's with all the dead mothers in half of these movies! Why should character building happen only at the expense of mothers?

And last but not the least, what's Roshan Seth doing! That guy deserves better roles, surely. It's sad that when it comes to it, we can't go beyond Amitabh Bachchan and his overused and abused baritone.