On top of that, a life-size sculpted model of the titular elephant of Tim Burton’s Dumbo was wheeled onto stage – and it’s pretty nightmare-inducing.
There’s a lot to be nervous about when it comes to Disney’s new take on Dumbo.
Burton’s aesthetic works beautifully on the intimate and small-scale, but give him a blockbuster budget and it all soon turns into nausea-inducing excess.
For all the ingenuity fans hope is still locked inside of Tim Burton, somewhere, his collaboration with the studio on Alice in Wonderland didn’t end particularly well.