Trailer Watch: The Full-Length Trailer for Tim Burton's 'Dumbo' | No Film School

Although a teaser trailer was released several months ago, this second go-round promoting Tim Burton's upcoming live-action remake of Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941) appears to present a more complete picture of the film's tone and style.

Set to be released on March 29th, 2019, the film looks both fantastical and cartoon-like, larger than life and set in a fantasy world in which special attractions of the freakish animal variety reign supreme. If it appears a little dark and over-the-top in its extravagance, that would likely be due to the Burton touch, a filmmaker who has never shied away from going "big." After viewing this trailer, will you believe an elephant can fly? Perhaps.

Burton fanatics will love the fact that the film co-stars Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito, two men who have worked with the filmmaker in the past, most memorably on Batman Returns in 1992. Other frequent Burton collaborators, included famed composer Danny Elfman, return to work with the director here.

If you can appreciate what appears to be the film's sincere, gentle, saccharine touch, the film looks like a sheen example of impressive art direction and special effects. When it comes to a remake of Dumbo directed by Tim Burton, that's the least we can expect.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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