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Probably the most underrated movie of Burton’s career—including by Burton himself, whose unspecified difficulties making and marketing this movie with Disney seemed to inspire both his longest-ever break between features (over five years) and the back-to-practical approach he took in the long-gestating Beetlejuice sequel. But just as much as that movie, Dumbo reflects a sense of artistic strife not always present in Burton’s earlier movies; it’s literally about a wealthy showman…
