In the new version, Dumbo doesn't get drunk like he does in the original, but he is mesmerized the new high-tech pink balloon elephants made during a new circus act.
The clowns throw a bottle of champagne into a water trough. Unaware, Dumbo and Timothy drink from the trough. They get so drunk that they hallucinate. The next day, they can't seem to remember the night before, and they have hangovers.
Summaries. A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. Holt was once a circus star until he went off to war and returned terribly altered.
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence.
It was sad, but it's like I tell my kids, sadness is not a bad emotion that we should never have. We all felt sadness for Dumbo being separated from his mother multiple times. I think it's important for kids to understand that this is what empathy feels like.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “peril/action, some thematic elements, and brief mild language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a brief kiss, several scenes with women wearing cleavage revealing circus costumes, a scene of a circus tent collapsing and killing a man, many scenes of risky tricks and ...
Dumbo, crying after visiting his mother, gets the hiccups, so Timothy takes him to the vat for water. Both of them get drunk, and hallucinate pink elephants. Dumbo and Timothy are later discovered asleep high up in a tree by Dandy Crow and his friends.
Here are 5: Dumbo (1941): Contains a scene of a group of cigar-smoking crows, with their leader named Jim Crow, referring to the racist segregation laws of the South, and voiced by a white actor.
A well-known reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941 Disney animated film Dumbo. In a segment known as "Pink Elephants on Parade", after taking a drink of water from a bucket spiked with champagne, Dumbo and Timothy begin to hallucinate singing and dancing elephants.
Movie Review: Tim Burton's live-action 'Dumbo' too sad for intended audience. Tim Burton directs the live-action remake of "Dumbo," but children might find the film relentlessly sad and scary.
In the end of the film, when Dumbo and his mother are freed, Max Medici reopens his own circus that's humane to all animals and performers, allowing monkeys, snakes, horses and more live freely and assuring guests that the Medici Family Circus, as it's now called, is a place for everyone to be free and happy.
To cheer Dumbo up, Timothy takes him to visit his mother; on the way back, Dumbo cries and then starts to hiccup, so Timothy takes him for a drink of water from a bucket which, unknown to them, has accidentally had a bottle of champagne knocked into it by the clowns.
At first glance, Disney's Dumbo may not be though of as a film that portrays disability, but its protagonist Dumbo has a deformity-- extra large ears. In the film, the baby elephant is ostracized. He is not allowed to participate in the circus and is seen as an outcast amongst his peers.
Peter Pan. The film portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as "redskins," an offensive term.
While the character of Dumbo doesn't speak in the film because he is a baby, Dickie Jones (the voice of Pinocchio) was considered briefly for voicing the role.
In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pioneering a new form of family entertainment.
Dumbo's success was truly spectacular! At only 64 minutes long, it still holds the title of shortest Disney feature-film to date. Walt Disney was initially advised to extend the story to make it a little longer, but he resisted.
Adults will likely find the film's flaws irksome. And parents will be disappointed to find even a small amount of profanity in a Disney feature: there are four curse words in the film and a brief humorous reference to alcohol. There is also some peril and violence in the movie, but none of it is gratuitous or gory.
Dumbo also exposes the dark side of the circus—from Michael Keaton's character, who's intent on exploiting Dumbo at all costs, to the humiliation and pain that animals experience when they're forced to perform stupid tricks.
The Ringmaster is the main antagonist of Dumbo. Unlike other Disney villains before him, he doesn't show any signs of being a real "villain" as it seems that all he is trying to do is run his circus the best he can and he just finds himself having to deal with the movie's titular protagonist, Dumbo.
