“All we gotta’ do is build an act. Make ya’ a star! A headliner! Dumbo the Great!”

• Timothy Q. Mouse

“a Fanciful Delight”

“Ladeez and gentlemen, step right this way – to the Broadway Theatre, that is – and see the most genial, the most endearing, the most completely precious cartoon feature film ever to emerge from the magical brushes of Walt Disney’s wonder-working artists”

“a film you will never forget”

“it is certainly is the most winsome, and the one that leaves you with the warmest glow”

“the colour is excellent, that the musical score is good, that the story is neatly constructed and that the animation is perfect”

• Bosley Crowther from the “New York Times”

“It is enchanting, and as gay as a rondo of Mozart”, “It is rich in imaginative fun, it is often witty, and even its inevitable piece of slop – a zoological lullaby – does not last long”

• Derek Malcolm from “The Guardian”