Dumbo Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

1. The Tone-Deaf Anti-Corporation Message

This new Dumbo certainly has much more on its mind than the original film, and though some of its moral messaging actually hits home with the desired impact, some of it is meanwhile impossible to take seriously.

Vandevere's acquisition of Max Medici's (Danny DeVito) circus is framed as a not-remotely-subtle critique of giant corporations buying up smaller entities and running them into the ground.

Given Disney's relentless ambition to acquire their competitors - most recently Fox - and pimp them out for easy cash, it's a social commentary that feels a tad icky coming from the House of Mouse.

If it gets kids thinking about the perils of big business then perhaps it's not a totally bad thing, but in terms of optics, Disney shouldn't be the company to extol the virtues of creativity over soulless corporatism.

But if you can forgive these issues, here's everything Dumbo gets right...