Given Tim Burton’s propensity for strangely dark films (Frankenweenie, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, etc.), he’s seemed an odd pick to direct children’s movies–and yet was given that chance with both Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. To be sure, both still had their weirdly Burtonesque moments. Yet, here comes the trailer for the live action adaptation of Dumbo, and the teaser doesn’t hint at anything creepy, or weird, or Johnny Depp.
Sure, Miss Vanessa Ives Eva Green is there (she’s become one of Burton’s menagerie of the weird) Also featured, Danny Devito, reprising his role as the Penguin. Other regulars include the aforementioned Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mr. Resurgent himself, Michael Keaton. But the point is, this appears to be most child appropriate thing to come from Burton yet, and that includes the ancient Pee-ee’s Big Adventure, which was pretty mild for a Burton film and which I actually loved as a kid.
Source: Destructoid Tim Burton’s live action Dumbo trailer takes flight