In a world full of wondrous things, wonder is the thing in shortest supply. Burton had a chance to make you believe that a pregnant caged elephant, who has spent her life in circuses, could look at soaring birds through a barred window in envy and what may result is an elephant with flapping ears for wings.

He squanders it.

An elephant flies but no one cries in Tim Burton’s woke but boring remake of a Disney classic…Tim Burton’s remake of 1941 Disney classic fails to take off. It underuses important scenes and introduces needless others.

Tim Burton’s remake is let down by a complicated screenplay, lack of emotional heft