Well, Burton’s version attempts to right this wrong. Although there are plenty of human characters in the film that only want to use Dumbo for profit or make fun of him, they are portrayed as either villainous or idiotic and don’t receive happy endings. Dumbo is awarded the proper ending he deserves, though, as the other circus performers help him and his mother escape the circus completely. The final moments of the film show Mrs. Jumbo and Jumbo joining their fellow elephants in the wild. The other animals accept Dumbo for who he is as he soars through the air. Plus, Danny DeVito’s character, a circus owner named Max Medici, delivers a very pointed line when he declares that at his newly constructed circus all the animals will now be free. There’s even a shot of the circus mice being released from their cages.