Pinocchio
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Critics Sentiment
Geppetto crafts the wooden puppet in his workshop
Pinocchio and Lampwick indulge in vices on Pleasure Island
The film drops from the promising workshop opening to the widely panned Pleasure Island sequence, losing 3 points as critics found it boring and ineffective compared to the original's genuinely frightening donkey transformation.
Critics found this Pinocchio remake to be a soulless disappointment that strips away everything magical about the 1940 original. While the opening workshop scenes and production design received some praise, the film consistently fails to capture the menace and emotional weight of key sequences, particularly the disastrous Pleasure Island segment. Most reviewers considered it one of Disney's worst live-action remakes, with poor CGI, wooden performances, and modernization attempts that felt out of touch.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Tom Hanks
Geppetto
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
Pinocchio (voice)
Angus Wright
Signore Rizzi
Cynthia Erivo
Blue Fairy
Sheila Atim
Signora Vitelli
Lorraine Bracco
Sofia the Seagull (voice)
Keegan-Michael Key
'Honest' John (voice)
Jamie Demetriou
Headmaster
Giuseppe Battiston
Stromboli
Kyanne Lamaya
Fabiana
Jaquita Ta'le
Sabina (voice)
Lewin Lloyd
Lampwick
Luke Evans
Coachman
Adelaide Barham
Pleasure Island Troupe
Poppy Blackwood
Pleasure Island Troupe
Katie Boothroyd
Pleasure Island Troupe
Lucy Boothroyd
Pleasure Island Troupe
Louisa Boyd Leslie
Pleasure Island Troupe
Tyne Burgess
Pleasure Island Troupe
Crew
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