Drunken pink elephants have no place in a childrens' movie, but they provide the key moment in the best animated film of all time
• More Why I Love … Celine Bijleveld on Human Traffic's titles, Martin Pengelly on the Jeff Daniels character in The Squid and the Whale, Andrew Pulver on the first fight in Fight Club, and Xan Brooks on non-professional actors
I can't believe Pink Elephants on Parade exists. It's a five-minute indulgence in a film that lasts just over an hour. A bizarro squeal of throwaway surrealism that somehow becomes the turning point of Dumbo, the greatest animated film of all time.
Dumbo was made as Disney faced disaster. Pinocchio and Fantasia had flopped at the box office. The little story about a misfit elephant with bedsheet-sized ears was the quick, cheap money-spinner – a speedy knock-off of Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl's children's book that had to save the studio.
• More Why I Love … Celine Bijleveld on Human Traffic's titles, Martin Pengelly on the Jeff Daniels character in The Squid and the Whale, Andrew Pulver on the first fight in Fight Club, and Xan Brooks on non-professional actors
I can't believe Pink Elephants on Parade exists. It's a five-minute indulgence in a film that lasts just over an hour. A bizarro squeal of throwaway surrealism that somehow becomes the turning point of Dumbo, the greatest animated film of all time.
Dumbo was made as Disney faced disaster. Pinocchio and Fantasia had flopped at the box office. The little story about a misfit elephant with bedsheet-sized ears was the quick, cheap money-spinner – a speedy knock-off of Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl's children's book that had to save the studio.
- 8/16/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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