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2016 tim burton movies12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Mouse in this remake, but there is a real sense of wonder to the film’s aerial sequences - not to mention the enjoyment of having Batman and Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton return to a Burton film, playing a shady businessman who sees big bucks in exploiting Dumbo’s talent. So it’s not entirely surprising that he was asked to helm Dumbo, which tells the story of the titular elephant who discovers he can fly. It’s easy to forget as Disney rolls out a series of live-action adaptations of its animated classics ( Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, the forthcoming Aladdin, and The Lion King) that Burton actually started the trend with 2010’s mega-successful Alice in Wonderland. It all seemed pretty ridiculous.” It turned out to be even worse than that, Mark. There was this kid with tribal markings on his face, a guy in a gorilla suit, and Helena. Later, though, perhaps he realized his mistake: “Acting with people in gorilla suits is not exactly something that turned me on,” the actor said before Planet’s release, “but I had to keep reminding myself the reason why I was there. Famously, Wahlberg signed up for the film after meeting with Burton for five minutes. Mark Wahlberg plays an astronaut who gets beamed to a planet full of talking apes, and what follows is everything that’s insufferable about Burton: curdled humor, a boringly “visionary” take, a story that becomes increasingly less interesting precisely because the director doesn’t seem to care. We are here to remind you that Tim Burton took a stab at it with this god-awful remake. ![]() With the release of his latest film Dumbo, here is our ranking of his 19 theatrical releases, from worst to first.īecause of the great, more recent Planet of the Apes reboots from a few years ago, you might have forgotten that Fox had tried once before to bring this sci-fi franchise back to the big screen. Still, he remains one of the most influential and unique voices in American movies: It’s difficult to imagine the last 30 years of Hollywood without him. Ultimately, though, Burton would become too much of a studio guy, a director whose vision became commoditized and watered down by success, to the point that he ended up turning back in the other direction, trying to make his movies smaller and more personal again, with varying success. The guy too weird for Disney was suddenly one of the biggest, most powerful directors in the world. This led to him being noticed by studios, and within five years of his second short, he had directed three consecutive massive hits for Warner Bros.: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, and Batman. Burton famously quit a job as a Disney animator - one of the most coveted jobs in animation, obviously - out of frustration that he couldn’t make his own voice heard, so he went out on his own to make two deeply original short films, Frankenweenie and Vincent, about (and/or starring) his childhood hero, Vincent Price. Tim Burton is the ultimate example of how almost every outsider, once they become successful enough, can’t help but become an insider. Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston/Vulture/Courtesy of the studios/Getty Images ![]()
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