Despite having a cast led by Hollywood giant Tom Hanks and helmed by director Robert Zemeckis, the creative mind behind beloved films like "Back to the Future" and "Forrest Gump," "Pinocchio" falls flat on arrival with poor pacing, an inconsistent tone, and awkward CGI of the titular character.
While Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, the new Disney Pinocchio remake failed to understand the key message of the original. The Italian fantasy story was meant to teach children relevant life lessons, mainly about being honest — with others and oneself.
Worst reboot for such a Walt Disney classic!!! This is, in every since of the word, the worst remake of the original classic we've grown to know! The CGI is bad, the storyline (especially with the ending), is terrible, and the characters are not true to the original Pinocchio!! Even the opening was not as great!
Pinocchio – Lost half a million. Fantasia – Lost more than Pinocchio. Dumbo – Profitable, but only 64 minutes long and made for half the cost of Snow White and a third of Pinocchio. Bambi – Lost money.
What is the controversy with the original Pinocchio movie?
In the 1940 version, the word “jackass” is used a few times, and the film also features characters who smoke. It's safe to assume Disney will want a lesser word than “jackass” in the new film, and smoking will absolutely be absent in the film.
Audiences today are way more sophisticated, and they don't want to be spoon fed. They want to be able to think for themselves." Co-writer Chris Weitz added: "Pinocchio doesn't have to turn into a 'real' flesh-and-blood boy.
Del Toro's version of Pinocchio is closest to a creature than a boy, doing justice to the mysticism surrounding the wooden boy's lore. In Disney's version, Pinocchio is left hanging between life and death after a monster attack, saved at the last minute by the Blue Fairy, who turns him into a real boy.
Violence & Scariness. As per the original story, Pinocchio gets into many perilous, life-threatening scenarios on his first day of life. He's kidnapped, imprisoned, nearly turned into a donkey, and swallowed by a sea monster. A beloved character appears to die in one scene.
Parents need to know that Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is darker and may be potentially scarier for some kids than other adaptations of the classic tale. It's set between World Wars in fascist Italy, and both kids and adults are killed by bombs. A character dies but is repeatedly reincarnated.
Pinocchio was released on September 8, 2022, by Disney+, as part of Disney+ Day. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who found it unnecessary and lacking the charm of the 1940 film.
In “Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio,” the filmmaker and his team don't follow the plot too closely, but it's more faithful than most in retaining the darkness, tenderness and humor of Carlo Collodi's 1881 novel.
While Pinocchio is viewed as a literary construct with contraindications of autism, it will be argued that his autistic traits are sufficient to suggest the possibility that Collodi had a partial intuition of the syndrome 60 years before it was identified by Leo Kanner.
In this telling, the aging Italian woodcarver Geppetto has a young son who's killed by a falling missile during World War I. Many years later, Geppetto, still distraught, chops down a pine tree in a drunken rage and carves a little puppet boy out of it, as if he could somehow bring his son back.
Geppetto J. Woodworth takes on full responsibility for his young son, Pinocchio following the tragic death of his wife, Francesca. Geppetto's devotion and love for Pinocchio will test him to every extent of his pride and Humanity. Francesca Woodworth- The late mother of Pinocchio and wife of Geppetto.
The Blue Fairy is portrayed by Cynthia Erivo in the 2022 live-action/CGI remake of the animated film, making her the first black actress to play the role. Unlike the original film, the Blue Fairy appears only once where she brings him to life.
In the original movie, Pinocchio has only cried once after getting locked up in the bird cage. But in this remake, he cries one single tear in the end, after almost losing Geppetto, probably to emphasize him becoming more and more human.
