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Pinocchio

Walt Disney Pictures

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United States of America

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Tom Hanks

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth

Angus Wright

Cynthia Erivo

Sheila Atim

Lorraine Bracco

Keegan-Michael Key

Jamie Demetriou

Giuseppe Battiston

Kyanne Lamaya

Jaquita Ta'le

Lewin Lloyd

Luke Evans

Adelaide Barham

Poppy Blackwood

Katie Boothroyd

Lucy Boothroyd

Louisa Boyd Leslie

Tyne Burgess

Verity Constantinou

Sylvie Cotterell

Phoebe Davies

Memphis-Lee Dixon

Joseph Duffy

Talia Etherington

Aimee Enejo

Felix Fewell Russell

Darcey Foster

Ben George

Jack Grant

Barney Harper

Ayla Hooper

Dean Johnson

Leila Johnson

Isla King

Jaxon Knopf

Keir Loughran

Oscar Loughran

Anya Lucker

Harrison Mackinnon

Poppy Mardlin

Imogen Maynard

Sebastian McDonough

Ruby Middleton

Abeni Munro

Samuel Newby

Kheiri Isaac-Osmani

Amira Piddington

Max Powers-Jones

Ella Robertson

Sophie Roscoe

Ethan Sey

Sebastian Shotliff

Fred Sweetman

Sophia Symondson-Cann

Evie Templeton

Conall Turner

Stanley Voss

Louis Wakeling

Calista Walters

Edward Walton

Nathan Whale

Fred Wilcox

Sam Winser

Theo Wyatt

Benjamin Plessala

Stefan Dechant

Alan Silvestri

Don Burgess

Derek Hogue

Robert Zemeckis

Chris Weitz

Jeremy Johns

Glen Ballard

Matthew Sullivan

Doug Chiang

Paul Weitz

Mick Audsley

Sandra Scott

Kevin Baillie

Joanna Johnston

Jesse Goldsmith

Scot Boland

Lee Grumett

John Midgley

Randy Thom

Kaveh Ruintan

Francesca Jaynes

Ben Jones

Christophe St-Pierre Paradis

Jenny Shircore

Paul Parsons

Emma Horton

David Cain

Paul Lowe

Eunice Huthart

Jeremy Bradley

Dan Balgoyen

Victoria Burrows

Brendan Handscombe

Manivannan Madhesan

Olivia Muggleton

Sarah Moussaif

Daniela Medeiros

Alistair Williams

Danielle Stanners

Steve Durkee

Michele Alessi

Trinh Vu

James Rustad

Patrick Dunn-Baker

Jane Wuu

Tina Jones

Sarah Kelly

Jeff Carson

Stephen Swain

Ali Pak

Andrew Palmer

Sam Bear

Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Erik Gonzalez

Charles Martin Inouye

Ron Mendell

Alessandro Sabbioni

Carlo Collodi

Rob Bliss

John Roesch

Denise Acosta

Gary Rizzo

Andrew Miano

Jack Rapke

Jacqueline Levine

Steve Ellingworth

Jason Sweers

Peter Hayley-Barker

Doug J. Meerdink

Ashley Lamont

Christi Leftwich

Diana 'D' Yip

Dennis Sands

Katie Byles

Liberty Cheesman

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/pinocchio-spoiler-free-review

"Pinocchio boasts a more thematically impactful ending than the original but fails to deliver a new version of the famous childhood tale with the same magic and allure of the past.

Tom Hanks and most of the voice cast embody the spirit of the 1940's flick perfectly, but the characters lack further development and imaginative modifications. The blend between animation and CGI components with real humans and sets is awkwardly inconsistent, leaving the viewers with a weird sensation throughout the whole runtime.

The cast's musical prowess and memorable songs help with the entertainment aspect, but overall, it's a somewhat disappointing new take."

Rating: C

Chris Sawin

_Pinocchio_ has been begrudgingly transformed from a flawed animated masterpiece into this shiny, superfluous turd of a live-action film. The majority of the classic characters have been mangled in some capacity while new characters are lame fluff serving as more of insurmountable obstacles you’re forced to endure rather than offering any sort of entertainment value or overall purpose to the actual story. With tangled strings and meandering storytelling, _Pinocchio_ is a musical misfire that attempts to annihilate everything that made its animated counterpart so enjoyable. 

**Full review:** https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/09/09/pinocchio-review-a-bloated-beached-whale-of-a-live-action-remake/

John Critic

Terrible remake of the original “When you wish upon a star” classic we’ve grown to love!!! Lack of creativity and  Disney entertainment you’d expect to see in this woke made version!!! So I say we only scale it to only an hour at best if this remake is going to try to distort the original film’s true morals about believing in your dreams!!

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com**

For some reason (we all know it’s the money), Disney is determined to mine their vault for material to remake, update, or “reimagine.” The studio’s latest abomination is the live action and animated musical “Pinocchio,” a massive misfire that tarnishes the beloved 1940s classic. Director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis‘ film is unimaginative, unwelcome, and uninspired.

Geppetto (Tom Hanks) is a lonely Italian woodcarver who builds a marionette named Pinocchio (voice of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and treats him like his real son. With the help of a little magic from the Blue Fairy (Cynthia Erivo), the puppet comes to life and dreams of becoming a real boy. The film follows Pinocchio’s adventures and missteps on his quest to make this fantasy a reality, including being duped by Honest John (voice of Keegan-Michael Key), being kidnapped by a circus, getting turned into a donkey, and being swallowed by a whale. He does all of this with his conscience, Jiminy Cricket (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt), by his side.

The story stays mostly true to the original 1883 book and Disney animated film. It’s updated a bit with new characters and some very off-putting (and unfunny) one-liners about Hollywood and the movie industry, and the screenplay feels old fashioned as it attempts to modernize the messaging. Pinocchio exclaims, “I don’t need school!” when he decides that he wants to be famous instead of getting an education. That may be relevant to today’s social climate, yet it still feels like a reach.

Things get worse from there. The animation is ugly and disturbing, with plastic looking characters and equally ghastly voice performances. Gordon-Levitt is terrible as Jiminy Cricket, giving a whiny, strained turn as one of the story’s most cherished characters. Everyone seems to be trying too hard, although it’s puzzling as to the reason why. At least Hanks makes an excellent Geppetto.

The film includes a few original tunes that are forgettable, as well as new versions of classic songs “When You Wish Upon A Star,” “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee,” and “I’ve Got No Strings,” which do not sound much better than nails dragging across a chalkboard. The singing is atrocious, and that’s putting it politely.

The Pleasure Island scenes are fully realized and a visual delight (let’s try to ignore that the “bad” boys do such horrific things like drinking root beer), but that’s where the praise begins and ends. The best part of the film is also its most ominous, and parents should note that the film is rated PG for a reasons. It features scary scenarios that may spook young kids, especially if they have abandonment issues or are afraid of the dark.

Almost everything about “Pinocchio” is cringe-worthy, and it’s simply not a good film. Why do this to a Disney classic?

CinemaSerf

I think Robert Zemeckis was maybe trying to get closer to the original Disney version of this film from 1940, but it doesn't really work. Tom Hanks sparingly takes on the human role of the carpenter "Geppetto" who longs for a son. He crafts this wooden replica and magic takes an hand with the benevolent "Blue Fairy" turning him into the young "Pinocchio". This youngster's is a bit spoiled and is soon bored with the routine of his life at home and at school and before long is tempted by a visiting (and well paying) theatrical show who take him from the safety of "Geppetto" and, accompanied by narrator/conscience "Jiminy Cricket" we now see the boy experience adventures that demonstrate the venality, cruelty and selfishness of humanity as he gradually starts to yearn for the safety of his home and his father. This perilous journey does, however, help him grow. He begins to mature and discover the difference between right and wrong, truth and lie whilst meantime the old man is despairing and sets off to find him. Can they ever meet again? The animation is really enjoyable here, but the characterisations are all a bit feeble. The gist of this story has a darkness to it and that is lacking here. Granted, this isn't the easies of stories to Disneyfy with much more substance to the malevolence of the plot, but here we seem to have something that falls between two stools. It's not menacing, nor is it a "cartoon", it's just a bit soulless. Still, it's not unwatchable and if it encourages youngsters to read the book or check out a few of the grittier adaptations of the Collodi novel, then all's good.

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