AC22 - RMR - Dumbo

So after Walt Disney started the Disney Princess brand (something of which was unbeknownst to him at the time), made a puppet real and experimented with a combination of music and animation, his next film would be one that would be released during WWII and because of the poor financial run of Fantasia, would be a desperate attempt to get the lost money that they didn't get with that film. Dumbo is notable for being the most financially successful Disney film of the 40s, had the smallest budget to be made with and coming with a running time of 64 minutes, is among the shortest of the feature films that Disney have made. In other words, Disney would have not been going to this day if it wasn't for this and many other films. So let's have a look at it:

So the film follows a scenario where a stork delivers babies to their mothers (as opposed to how birth really happens) and among these babies, is an elephant who is being delivered to Mrs. Jumbo who is a circus elephant. But because of the baby elephants large ears, the other female elephants mock him and dub him Dumbo. During a tour of the circus, Dumbo gets mocked and made fun of by kids and as a result, Mrs. Jumbo gets violent with them which has the ringleader put her into a cage because of him thinking she is too violent. Dumbo, now feeling depressed about all this, then gets a mouse as his mentor and protector. This mouse calls himself Timothy Q. Mouse (played by Edward Brophy) who decides to do all he can to make Dumbo happy and feel wanted and respected.

Its one of these films that deals with how an animal or whatever can be mocked and made fun of just because of what he/she has and I think there is a lesson to be learned here that whatever you are and whatever you have, to never be made fun of or make fun of another person. I am of course referring to the Equal Opportunities right which is better described as something that people need to understand and that its not right to make fun of others. It never has been and it never will be. So despite its short run time, it is a very good film that has lessons to be learned, some pretty fun characters and everything that makes all early Disney films great such as what I've just said as well as the music and animation. Say what you want about the stereotypical crows and regarding the ringmaster as the main villain when really its the elephants that mock Dumbo who are the real villains, but this film will go down in history as one of Disney's greatest hits. 9/10