From Winnie-the-Pooh to Peter Pan, FEMAIL reveals worst film remakes
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Disney's recent movie flops have been blamed on an over-reliance on tired film remakes.
The Little Mermaid made a respectable $542 million globally, but big Disney hits can easily break the $1 billion mark, with critics suggesting viewers have tired of live action remakes of the studio's classic 1980s and 1990s cartoons.
Experts say the recent box office successes of both Barbie and Oppenheimer have made Disney's obsession with follow-up remakes look particularly stale.
This week embattled CEO Bob Iger admitted in Disney's third-quarter financial results call on Wednesday that he was 'personally committed' to turning around the box office bombs.
However Disney are far from the only culprits who have come to rely on old storylines for new movies.
Here FEMAIL reveals the worst film remakes - from a recent adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan to a Netflix gender-swapped remake of the rom-com She's All That.
ANNIE
Critics have suggested that viewers may be tiring of film bosses remaking old movies - here FEMAIL reveals the films which have been slated after being re-released years later with a new cast (pictured, the 1982 Annie cast)
The popular children's musical Annie was re-made in 2014, but many were unimpressed by the re-release
The original musical of Annie is based on the Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, which made its debut in 1924.
The Broadway musical opened in 1977 and won seven Tony Awards.
However in the 2014 remake, Jamie Foxx played billionaire Will Stacks, the adaptation's equivalent to the lovable Daddy Warbucks, who takes Annie away from the orphanage run by nasty Miss Hannigan, played by Cameron Diaz.
The feature film was directed by Will Gluck and based on a screenplay by Emma Thompson.
Speaking on the Graham Norton Show in 2014, Hollywood star Cameron Diaz revealed she would have liked an extra few years to rehearse for the popular mean character.
‘I love singing but I hate how bad a singer I am, but I try,' she explained.
‘I would have liked a couple of years to prepare for the role, which is what it required!
‘But, I was surrounded by the best professionals and teachers and they rallied around me and gave me a voice that was usable.'
However it was reported that Cameron was a poor substitute for five-time Golden Globe winner Carol Burnett, who delivered one of her most memorable and hilarious performances as the boozy, disheveled flirt in the original Annie.
SHE'S ALL THAT
The rom-com She's All That, which stars Freddie Prinz Jr was released in 1999 and instantly became a popular teen classic
He's All That — which stars TikToker Addison Rae opposite Tanner Buchanan — drew in plenty of eager and curious viewers, not everyone has been left with a favorable impression of the flick
's gender-swapped remake of the 1999 teen classic She's All was released in 2021 and Streaming quickly shot up to number one on the streaming service across multiple countries.
But while He's All That — which stars TikToker Addison Rae opposite Tanner Buchanan — drew in plenty of eager and curious viewers, not everyone has been left with a favorable impression of the flick.
In fact, social media users blasted the film as 'TK' and 'TK,' while a reviewer for writing: 'In the end, "He's All That" is not all that — not even a little says it 'has a good head on its shoulders, providing an endearing update of the 1999 original' and 'fully stands on its own.'
But others were less convinced of its appeal.
Writes the : 'He's All That ...
is a movie about how anyone can be an actor now, regardless of one's (lack of) qualifications or talent for adult swim shows the craft. It's also a groan-inducing addition to the ever-growing list of needless remakes to come out in the past couple of years.'
called it 'lazy,' while described it as 'meh,' naming the stunt casting of Kourtney Kardashian, Matthew Lillard, and Rachel Leigh Cook as the best part.
'He's All That is a shallow, unnecessary retooling of average and problematic source material,' they wrote.
The New York Times panned it, saying the new film 'lazily rehashes the original but without its endearing weirdness.'
'If they dutifully deliver the film's platitudinous message — "be yourself" — it's with the conviction of a makeup brand adult protective services selling a "natural look,"' wrote Devika Girish.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post was unimpressed with Rae's performance, writing: 'Some things just can't be saved, not even by the nostalgic returns of "She's All That" stars Cook and Matthew Lillard, who appear in small, unrelated roles.'
PETER PAN
The classic J M Barrie children's story of Peter Pan has been remade a number of times over the years, most famously in the 1953 animated film
Disney+'s 'Peter Pan & Wendy' was released last year, and was slammed by critics after the Lost Boys were given a 'woke' makeover
The classic J M Barrie children's story of Peter Pan has been remade a number of times over the years, including in a 2020 version titled 'Wendy'.
Other iterations include Steven Spielberg's 1991 epic 'Hook' in 1991, a 2003 version called 'Peter Pan', a 2015 Hugh Jackman-fronted 'Pan' and a 1953 animated film.
Much of the remakes have received unfavourable reviews.
But one in particular was slammed by critics - after the plot was given a '' makeover with the famous Lost Boys updated to include girls, too.
Disney+'s 'Peter Pan & Wendy' followed the timeless tale of a young girl who, defies her parents' wishes to attend boarding school and instead travels with her two brothers to Neverland.
However many were horrified to see there were a few crucial changes to the plot from the original 1904 play by J.M.
Barrie.
In one shot, a group of children can be seen gathering around as they introduce themselves as 'lost boys,' as a little girl adds 'every last one of us.'
A surprised Wendy remarks 'but you're not all boys!' to which one replies 'So?'
Critics were quick to slam the change, with one Twitter user labelling it a 'flop' while another said: 'What have they done to my characters?'
WINNIE-THE-POOH
The Winnie the Pooh tales by AA Milne are a children's classic known all over the world, inspiring cartoon films and TV shows
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was released earlier this year, is a horror retelling of the story which sees Pooh and Piglet embarking on a murderous rampage
The Winnie the Pooh tales by AA Milne are a children's classic known all over the world, inspiring films such as Christopher Robin - but Jagged Edge Productions put a dark twist on the lovable characters.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was released earlier this year, is a horror retelling of the story which sees Pooh and Piglet embarking on a murderous rampage.
The loveable characters - turned bloodthirsty killers - terrorise a group of university students and an adult Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years after leaving for Streaming college.
The film's director Rhys Frake-Waterfield revealed there has been a backlash to the project, tellng news agency AFP: 'Look, this is mental, I've had petitions to stop it.
I've had death threats. I've had people saying they called the police.'
The film is only now possible because the rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories came into the public domain in January 2022.
This means anyone wishing to use characters or concepts from everyone's favourite yellow bear now does not have to request permission or pay copyright charges.
Shortly after Mr Milne's death in 1956 his widow sold the rights to Winnie the Pooh to Stephen Slesinger, who later sold them to Walt Disney Company.
The rights had been split between Milne's widow and three other organisations, who all sold their rights to Disney in 2001.
Although the rights to the original Winnie the Pooh characters have now expired, Disney still has copyright over its own version of the bear, as well as all films and images associated with them.
DUMBO
The first: Disney first brought out the original in 1941 and critics felt that this couldn't be beaten
More junk than trunk: The Dumbo remake failed to tug at the critics heartstrings as they claimed Tim Burton's remake 'de-tusks' the spirit of the original
Tim Burton's live action/CGI remake of the 1941 Disney classic Dumbo largely failed to wow the critics when it was released in 2019.
The PG-certified movie tells the story of a young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly.
He helps to save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
The Daily Mail's Brian Viner gave the film two stars, saying it is undermined by the worthiness of its animal rights message.
He wrote: 'Today's computer-generated imagery cannot make an elephant fly quite as convincingly as a team of clever animators could almost 80 years ago.
'For that reason, and several others, this latest non-musical Disney version - hard though it tries - never recaptures the abundant charm and magic of the original.
A few good songs might have helped.
'On paper it makes sense for Lifestyle Burton, who once gave us a man with scissors for hands, to work with an elephant with ears for wings. The 60-year-old director of the 1990 fantasy film Edward Scissorhands is something of an oddball himself and likes to tell stories about social and physical misfits.
But on screen, Burton's antipathy towards zoos and circuses looms all too large.
'Of course, animal cruelty should be abhorrent to everyone, yet his film is undermined by the worthiness of its animal rights message. Circuses don't have to be magnets for leering voyeurs.
They can be places of innocent joy, too.
'As for the narrative, Burton and screenwriter Ehren Kruger have given it a sharp twist. In 1919, First World War veteran Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) returns with only one arm. Previously, he'd been an acclaimed horseman with the Medici Brothers circus.
Now, sneaky Max Medici (Danny DeVito) wants to downgrade him to elephant carer.
Yet Holt's children's loss is even greater: while daddy was away at war, mommy died in a flu epidemic.
This gives us a double whammy of motherlessness, because the circus's prize elephant Mrs Jumbo is carted off in chains for adultery causing a hoo-ha in the Big Top.
The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw said that the spirit of the original film had been 'painfully de-tusked' by Burton's new version.
He adds: 'Tim Burton's new Dumbo lands in the multiplex big top with a dull thud.
'It is a flightless pachyderm of a film that saddles itself with 21st-century shame at the idea of circus animals, overcomplicating the first movie, losing the directness, abandoning the lethal pathos, mislaying the songs and finally getting marooned in some sort of steampunk Jurassic Park, jam-packed with retro-futurist boredom that had the kids at the performance I attended talking among themselves.
The Daily Telegraph‘s Robbie Collins also wasn't a fan of Dumbo and wrote: 'The problem with this latest entry in Disney's ever-expanding range of recycled classics isn't that it hews too close to the studio's original animated masterpiece, but that its many departures only muddle the original's nursery-rhyme simplicity and neuter its famous sustained emotional wallop.'
David Rooney from The Hollywood Reporter was also disappointed.
He wrote: The actors all do what they can, but mostly get lost in the shuffle and end up with too little to do, like Alan Arkin's cynical New York banker…
'But when that visual leaves a more captivating impression than a baby elephant spreading its ears and getting airborne like a glider, something is definitely off in the balance.
'The new Dumbo holds the attention but too seldom tugs at the heartstrings.'
JEEPERS CREEPERS
Jeepers Creepers 2001, pictured above, grossed millions at the box office upon released which was only surpassed by the sequel in 2003
Pregnant Sydney Craven confronts the real creeper in a 'creeper-themed' escape room at a horror festival in Jeepers Creepers Reborn, which was released in 2022
A 2022 reboot of Jeepers Creepers was met with dismal reviews from fans and critics alike who said the franchise 'would never be the same' after the movie's release.
This latest instalment of the 2001 series - its fourth - was taken over by Timo Vuorensola, after the original director Victor Salva was ousted several years ago when his 1988 conviction for molesting a 12-year-old boy was widely publicised.
Some fans of the 2001 original and its sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) criticised changes made by Vuorensola, citing 'sloppy' CGI, and a 'non-sensical' plot among the film's weaknesses.
However, it is the reimagined Creeper - the central villain - which has come in for some of the harshest criticism, with some moviegoers saying it has reduced the picture to a 'slasher movie'.
The creeper, a flesh eating monster who rises every 23 years to feast on people's organs, was first seen when Justin Long and Gina Phillips (playing Damien and Trish) took a highway trip in the first film 21 years ago.
While it teased some creeper folklore, and hinted at how the mysterious and seemingly indestructible creature came to be, fans were still left looking for answers, bringing about hope for a fourth version to tie up loose ends.
Overall, this instalment was less successful than the first two, and after it was panned by moviegoers, Timo Vuorensola said in a interview that he would take over the franchise and give it 'new life'.
However, Jeepers Creepers Reborn, which stars Jarrueau Benjamin as the creeper, alongside Imran Adams and Sydney Craven as the main protagonists, has disappointed many.
It shows the couple travelling to a horror festival, where they end up in a creeper-themed escape room - the first three films are referenced as fictional and the creeper has 'fans' who then try to sacrifice a pregnant Sydney to the hungry monster.
PINOCCHIO
The animated Disney film Pinocchio was based on the 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio
Last year, following on from a string of live-action remakes from Walt Disney Co., came a brand new rendition of classic animation Pinocchio - led by Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis
Last year, following on from a string of live-action remakes from Walt Disney Co., came a brand new rendition of classic animation Pinocchio - led by Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis.
But it appears the filmmaker struggled to make this CGI-infused flick a smash hit, with critics blasting it as 'lifeless' and 'hollow' - noting that it 'lacks a beating heart'.
Closely following the original storyline, which was based on 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, the hybrid production even starred Tom Hanks - whose performance was snubbed by reviews.
The film starred breakout child actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the voice of computer-generated Pinocchio - while Hanks took on the role of Geppetto and Cynthia Erivo plays the Blue Fairy.
The film closely followed it's 1940 original, chronicling the adventures of a wooden puppet whose lonely maker, Geppetto, wishes were real.
Zemeckis offers a switch up ending where (spoiler alert) Pinocchio remains a puppet and is dubbed a 'truthful boy' rather than a real one, unlike in it's 1940 counterpart.
While critics appeared in unison on the high-level of production and similarity to the original storyline that Zemeckis' Pinocchio - the wider consensus was that the production lacked heart.
The release received a mere one star rating from The Telegraph's Robbie Collin - who described Pinocchio as 'a wooden nightmare'.
Blasting the on-screen characters, Collin explains: 'The design of Pinocchio himself is so soullessly close to the original he doesn't even look like a puppet, but a piece of official Disney Pinocchio merchandise.'
Before noting that Tom Hanks less than shines, continuing: 'This gives Tom Hanks little to do beyond recycle his accent from Elvis.'
The Guardian's Adrian Horton gave a more generous three-star rating, but echoed Collin's idea of it lacking life.
'Something is off - the film is competently crafted, dutifully acted, clearly labored over with soul, and yet, like its star, lacks a beating heart,' writes Horton.
Adding a positive spin of Hanks' performance, she continues: 'Hanks is the platonic ideal of a pathos figure for children, and you cannot help but root for him acting valiantly amid the CGI, trying and occasionally succeeding to anchor this story of a talking puppet to real human emotion.'
Yet the theme continued as Variety's Andrew Barker branded the live-action film as a 'hollow remake': 'All the meticulous surface detail in the world can't compensate for the core emptiness of the film's digital creations.'
Despite the reviews somewhat deflating areas, the opening scene was held as the best of the hour and 45 minute production - with critics giving credit where it's due to Zemeckis' similar opening act to the 1940 original.
'Zemeckis' Pinocchio works best in its opening act, when the director mostly mimics the original's pacing and allows the camera to stay relatively still in Geppetto's workshop,' explains Barker.
While Collin, though somewhat backhanded, also praises: 'Robert Zemeckis, who should be well above this, imprints a bit of personality on this nightmare exactly twice.
Once in the opening sequence in Geppetto's workshop.'
With an in between two out of five stars, Associated Press' Jake Coyle remarked: 'It was fitfully ridiculous and emotionally devastating.'
The Little Mermaid made a respectable $542 million globally, but big Disney hits can easily break the $1 billion mark, with critics suggesting viewers have tired of live action remakes of the studio's classic 1980s and 1990s cartoons.
Experts say the recent box office successes of both Barbie and Oppenheimer have made Disney's obsession with follow-up remakes look particularly stale.
This week embattled CEO Bob Iger admitted in Disney's third-quarter financial results call on Wednesday that he was 'personally committed' to turning around the box office bombs.
However Disney are far from the only culprits who have come to rely on old storylines for new movies.
Here FEMAIL reveals the worst film remakes - from a recent adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan to a Netflix gender-swapped remake of the rom-com She's All That.
ANNIE
Critics have suggested that viewers may be tiring of film bosses remaking old movies - here FEMAIL reveals the films which have been slated after being re-released years later with a new cast (pictured, the 1982 Annie cast)
The popular children's musical Annie was re-made in 2014, but many were unimpressed by the re-release
The original musical of Annie is based on the Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, which made its debut in 1924.
The Broadway musical opened in 1977 and won seven Tony Awards.
However in the 2014 remake, Jamie Foxx played billionaire Will Stacks, the adaptation's equivalent to the lovable Daddy Warbucks, who takes Annie away from the orphanage run by nasty Miss Hannigan, played by Cameron Diaz.
The feature film was directed by Will Gluck and based on a screenplay by Emma Thompson.
Speaking on the Graham Norton Show in 2014, Hollywood star Cameron Diaz revealed she would have liked an extra few years to rehearse for the popular mean character.
‘I love singing but I hate how bad a singer I am, but I try,' she explained.
‘I would have liked a couple of years to prepare for the role, which is what it required!
‘But, I was surrounded by the best professionals and teachers and they rallied around me and gave me a voice that was usable.'
However it was reported that Cameron was a poor substitute for five-time Golden Globe winner Carol Burnett, who delivered one of her most memorable and hilarious performances as the boozy, disheveled flirt in the original Annie.
SHE'S ALL THAT
The rom-com She's All That, which stars Freddie Prinz Jr was released in 1999 and instantly became a popular teen classic
He's All That — which stars TikToker Addison Rae opposite Tanner Buchanan — drew in plenty of eager and curious viewers, not everyone has been left with a favorable impression of the flick
's gender-swapped remake of the 1999 teen classic She's All was released in 2021 and Streaming quickly shot up to number one on the streaming service across multiple countries.
But while He's All That — which stars TikToker Addison Rae opposite Tanner Buchanan — drew in plenty of eager and curious viewers, not everyone has been left with a favorable impression of the flick.
In fact, social media users blasted the film as 'TK' and 'TK,' while a reviewer for writing: 'In the end, "He's All That" is not all that — not even a little says it 'has a good head on its shoulders, providing an endearing update of the 1999 original' and 'fully stands on its own.'
But others were less convinced of its appeal.
Writes the : 'He's All That ...
is a movie about how anyone can be an actor now, regardless of one's (lack of) qualifications or talent for adult swim shows the craft. It's also a groan-inducing addition to the ever-growing list of needless remakes to come out in the past couple of years.'
called it 'lazy,' while described it as 'meh,' naming the stunt casting of Kourtney Kardashian, Matthew Lillard, and Rachel Leigh Cook as the best part.
'He's All That is a shallow, unnecessary retooling of average and problematic source material,' they wrote.
The New York Times panned it, saying the new film 'lazily rehashes the original but without its endearing weirdness.'
'If they dutifully deliver the film's platitudinous message — "be yourself" — it's with the conviction of a makeup brand adult protective services selling a "natural look,"' wrote Devika Girish.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post was unimpressed with Rae's performance, writing: 'Some things just can't be saved, not even by the nostalgic returns of "She's All That" stars Cook and Matthew Lillard, who appear in small, unrelated roles.'
PETER PAN
The classic J M Barrie children's story of Peter Pan has been remade a number of times over the years, most famously in the 1953 animated film
Disney+'s 'Peter Pan & Wendy' was released last year, and was slammed by critics after the Lost Boys were given a 'woke' makeover
The classic J M Barrie children's story of Peter Pan has been remade a number of times over the years, including in a 2020 version titled 'Wendy'.
Other iterations include Steven Spielberg's 1991 epic 'Hook' in 1991, a 2003 version called 'Peter Pan', a 2015 Hugh Jackman-fronted 'Pan' and a 1953 animated film.
Much of the remakes have received unfavourable reviews.
But one in particular was slammed by critics - after the plot was given a '' makeover with the famous Lost Boys updated to include girls, too.
Disney+'s 'Peter Pan & Wendy' followed the timeless tale of a young girl who, defies her parents' wishes to attend boarding school and instead travels with her two brothers to Neverland.
However many were horrified to see there were a few crucial changes to the plot from the original 1904 play by J.M.
Barrie.
In one shot, a group of children can be seen gathering around as they introduce themselves as 'lost boys,' as a little girl adds 'every last one of us.'
A surprised Wendy remarks 'but you're not all boys!' to which one replies 'So?'
Critics were quick to slam the change, with one Twitter user labelling it a 'flop' while another said: 'What have they done to my characters?'
WINNIE-THE-POOH
The Winnie the Pooh tales by AA Milne are a children's classic known all over the world, inspiring cartoon films and TV shows
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was released earlier this year, is a horror retelling of the story which sees Pooh and Piglet embarking on a murderous rampage
The Winnie the Pooh tales by AA Milne are a children's classic known all over the world, inspiring films such as Christopher Robin - but Jagged Edge Productions put a dark twist on the lovable characters.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was released earlier this year, is a horror retelling of the story which sees Pooh and Piglet embarking on a murderous rampage.
The loveable characters - turned bloodthirsty killers - terrorise a group of university students and an adult Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years after leaving for Streaming college.
The film's director Rhys Frake-Waterfield revealed there has been a backlash to the project, tellng news agency AFP: 'Look, this is mental, I've had petitions to stop it.
I've had death threats. I've had people saying they called the police.'
The film is only now possible because the rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories came into the public domain in January 2022.
This means anyone wishing to use characters or concepts from everyone's favourite yellow bear now does not have to request permission or pay copyright charges.
Shortly after Mr Milne's death in 1956 his widow sold the rights to Winnie the Pooh to Stephen Slesinger, who later sold them to Walt Disney Company.
The rights had been split between Milne's widow and three other organisations, who all sold their rights to Disney in 2001.
Although the rights to the original Winnie the Pooh characters have now expired, Disney still has copyright over its own version of the bear, as well as all films and images associated with them.
DUMBO
The first: Disney first brought out the original in 1941 and critics felt that this couldn't be beaten
More junk than trunk: The Dumbo remake failed to tug at the critics heartstrings as they claimed Tim Burton's remake 'de-tusks' the spirit of the original
Tim Burton's live action/CGI remake of the 1941 Disney classic Dumbo largely failed to wow the critics when it was released in 2019.
The PG-certified movie tells the story of a young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly.
He helps to save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
The Daily Mail's Brian Viner gave the film two stars, saying it is undermined by the worthiness of its animal rights message.
He wrote: 'Today's computer-generated imagery cannot make an elephant fly quite as convincingly as a team of clever animators could almost 80 years ago.
'For that reason, and several others, this latest non-musical Disney version - hard though it tries - never recaptures the abundant charm and magic of the original.
A few good songs might have helped.
'On paper it makes sense for Lifestyle Burton, who once gave us a man with scissors for hands, to work with an elephant with ears for wings. The 60-year-old director of the 1990 fantasy film Edward Scissorhands is something of an oddball himself and likes to tell stories about social and physical misfits.
But on screen, Burton's antipathy towards zoos and circuses looms all too large.
'Of course, animal cruelty should be abhorrent to everyone, yet his film is undermined by the worthiness of its animal rights message. Circuses don't have to be magnets for leering voyeurs.
They can be places of innocent joy, too.
'As for the narrative, Burton and screenwriter Ehren Kruger have given it a sharp twist. In 1919, First World War veteran Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) returns with only one arm. Previously, he'd been an acclaimed horseman with the Medici Brothers circus.
Now, sneaky Max Medici (Danny DeVito) wants to downgrade him to elephant carer.
Yet Holt's children's loss is even greater: while daddy was away at war, mommy died in a flu epidemic.
This gives us a double whammy of motherlessness, because the circus's prize elephant Mrs Jumbo is carted off in chains for adultery causing a hoo-ha in the Big Top.
The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw said that the spirit of the original film had been 'painfully de-tusked' by Burton's new version.
He adds: 'Tim Burton's new Dumbo lands in the multiplex big top with a dull thud.
'It is a flightless pachyderm of a film that saddles itself with 21st-century shame at the idea of circus animals, overcomplicating the first movie, losing the directness, abandoning the lethal pathos, mislaying the songs and finally getting marooned in some sort of steampunk Jurassic Park, jam-packed with retro-futurist boredom that had the kids at the performance I attended talking among themselves.
The Daily Telegraph‘s Robbie Collins also wasn't a fan of Dumbo and wrote: 'The problem with this latest entry in Disney's ever-expanding range of recycled classics isn't that it hews too close to the studio's original animated masterpiece, but that its many departures only muddle the original's nursery-rhyme simplicity and neuter its famous sustained emotional wallop.'
David Rooney from The Hollywood Reporter was also disappointed.
He wrote: The actors all do what they can, but mostly get lost in the shuffle and end up with too little to do, like Alan Arkin's cynical New York banker…
'But when that visual leaves a more captivating impression than a baby elephant spreading its ears and getting airborne like a glider, something is definitely off in the balance.
'The new Dumbo holds the attention but too seldom tugs at the heartstrings.'
JEEPERS CREEPERS
Jeepers Creepers 2001, pictured above, grossed millions at the box office upon released which was only surpassed by the sequel in 2003
Pregnant Sydney Craven confronts the real creeper in a 'creeper-themed' escape room at a horror festival in Jeepers Creepers Reborn, which was released in 2022
A 2022 reboot of Jeepers Creepers was met with dismal reviews from fans and critics alike who said the franchise 'would never be the same' after the movie's release.
This latest instalment of the 2001 series - its fourth - was taken over by Timo Vuorensola, after the original director Victor Salva was ousted several years ago when his 1988 conviction for molesting a 12-year-old boy was widely publicised.
Some fans of the 2001 original and its sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) criticised changes made by Vuorensola, citing 'sloppy' CGI, and a 'non-sensical' plot among the film's weaknesses.
However, it is the reimagined Creeper - the central villain - which has come in for some of the harshest criticism, with some moviegoers saying it has reduced the picture to a 'slasher movie'.
The creeper, a flesh eating monster who rises every 23 years to feast on people's organs, was first seen when Justin Long and Gina Phillips (playing Damien and Trish) took a highway trip in the first film 21 years ago.
While it teased some creeper folklore, and hinted at how the mysterious and seemingly indestructible creature came to be, fans were still left looking for answers, bringing about hope for a fourth version to tie up loose ends.
Overall, this instalment was less successful than the first two, and after it was panned by moviegoers, Timo Vuorensola said in a interview that he would take over the franchise and give it 'new life'.
However, Jeepers Creepers Reborn, which stars Jarrueau Benjamin as the creeper, alongside Imran Adams and Sydney Craven as the main protagonists, has disappointed many.
It shows the couple travelling to a horror festival, where they end up in a creeper-themed escape room - the first three films are referenced as fictional and the creeper has 'fans' who then try to sacrifice a pregnant Sydney to the hungry monster.
PINOCCHIO
The animated Disney film Pinocchio was based on the 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio
Last year, following on from a string of live-action remakes from Walt Disney Co., came a brand new rendition of classic animation Pinocchio - led by Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis
Last year, following on from a string of live-action remakes from Walt Disney Co., came a brand new rendition of classic animation Pinocchio - led by Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis.
But it appears the filmmaker struggled to make this CGI-infused flick a smash hit, with critics blasting it as 'lifeless' and 'hollow' - noting that it 'lacks a beating heart'.
Closely following the original storyline, which was based on 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, the hybrid production even starred Tom Hanks - whose performance was snubbed by reviews.
The film starred breakout child actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the voice of computer-generated Pinocchio - while Hanks took on the role of Geppetto and Cynthia Erivo plays the Blue Fairy.
The film closely followed it's 1940 original, chronicling the adventures of a wooden puppet whose lonely maker, Geppetto, wishes were real.
Zemeckis offers a switch up ending where (spoiler alert) Pinocchio remains a puppet and is dubbed a 'truthful boy' rather than a real one, unlike in it's 1940 counterpart.
While critics appeared in unison on the high-level of production and similarity to the original storyline that Zemeckis' Pinocchio - the wider consensus was that the production lacked heart.
The release received a mere one star rating from The Telegraph's Robbie Collin - who described Pinocchio as 'a wooden nightmare'.
Blasting the on-screen characters, Collin explains: 'The design of Pinocchio himself is so soullessly close to the original he doesn't even look like a puppet, but a piece of official Disney Pinocchio merchandise.'
Before noting that Tom Hanks less than shines, continuing: 'This gives Tom Hanks little to do beyond recycle his accent from Elvis.'
The Guardian's Adrian Horton gave a more generous three-star rating, but echoed Collin's idea of it lacking life.
'Something is off - the film is competently crafted, dutifully acted, clearly labored over with soul, and yet, like its star, lacks a beating heart,' writes Horton.
Adding a positive spin of Hanks' performance, she continues: 'Hanks is the platonic ideal of a pathos figure for children, and you cannot help but root for him acting valiantly amid the CGI, trying and occasionally succeeding to anchor this story of a talking puppet to real human emotion.'
Yet the theme continued as Variety's Andrew Barker branded the live-action film as a 'hollow remake': 'All the meticulous surface detail in the world can't compensate for the core emptiness of the film's digital creations.'
Despite the reviews somewhat deflating areas, the opening scene was held as the best of the hour and 45 minute production - with critics giving credit where it's due to Zemeckis' similar opening act to the 1940 original.
'Zemeckis' Pinocchio works best in its opening act, when the director mostly mimics the original's pacing and allows the camera to stay relatively still in Geppetto's workshop,' explains Barker.
While Collin, though somewhat backhanded, also praises: 'Robert Zemeckis, who should be well above this, imprints a bit of personality on this nightmare exactly twice.
Once in the opening sequence in Geppetto's workshop.'
With an in between two out of five stars, Associated Press' Jake Coyle remarked: 'It was fitfully ridiculous and emotionally devastating.'
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