Pinocchio

Now, Pinocchio, the delightful story of a wooden boy who comes alive, is getting the live-action treatment with Tom Hanks starring as the puppet maker Geppetto ...

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Can 'Pinocchio,' which five years ago would have been in theaters, pull Disney+ viewership on par even with theatrical bombs like 'Lightyear'?

However, I don’t know if there’s an equation for ‘losing X dollars in theaters for Y streaming viewership gains.” As for Pinocchio, it’s a disappointment, to be sure. It may not be worth spending tens of millions of dollars for a film like Pinocchio to bomb in theaters (with resultant bad press and tisk-tisking from pundits like myself) to boost its streaming potential. However, it’s also a way for Zemeckis to indulge his decades-long interest in pushing the technical envelope now that Hollywood can’t afford to spend $100 million on films like Contact and Cast Away. Disney+ is dominated by MCU television shows (whose success was predicated upon the theatrical popularity of the Marvel movies), theatrical Marvel movies (Thor: Love and Thunder debuted just today), Star Wars shows and Disney/Pixar animated films. That caused a (primarily online) kerfuffle when The Help (an Oscar-winning and Best Picture-nominated film that grossed $169 million domestic in 2011) became Netflix’s most-watched movie during a moment of intense civil protests against arguably improper (and racially motivated) police violence. Netflix gets high-end third-party films while Sony gets a cushion and a financial motivation to take the chance on the next Where the Crawdads Sing or the next Baby Driver. [just dropped for the week of August 8 through August 14](https://www.nielsen.com/top-ten/), and Lightyear earned 700 million minutes. Prey is the best Predator movie since the first Predator movie, and offhand The Harder They Fall may be the best mainstream western since Open Range. As much as any of the lesser Walt Disney remakes over the last decade, it alternates between being a redundant rehash of the 1940 animated feature and a needlessly watered-down adaptation of the same. As noted in 2019, that audiences flocked to Batman doesn’t mean they wanted a big-budget version of The Shadow. Likewise, that audiences showed up in theaters for Aladdin doesn’t mean they would do so for Dumbo. I would argue the end game has been to create the definitive live-action version of these respective oft-told tales to sit alongside their already classic animated adaptations.

Check out what critics are saying about Disney+'s live-action remake of Pinocchio, starring Tom Hanks.

[Games Radar](https://www.gamesradar.com/pinocchio-2022-review-disney-plus-live-action/) also gives the movie 3 out of 5 stars, saying that Tom Hanks is wonderful, the animation is great, and the familiar characters inspire nostalgia. As with Disney’s other live-action remakes, this one seems to inspire mixed reviews, except maybe where Tom Hanks and the updated animation are concerned. [CinemaBlend’s review of Pinocchio](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/disneys-pinocchio-review-the-darkest-live-action-disney-remake). However, the critic ponders, with the movie targeting a new generation, maybe it doesn’t matter that the story hasn’t changed. [latest Disney live-action remake](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2477185/ranking-all-the-disney-live-action-remakes-including-lion-king). The animated Disney movie from 1940 captured generations of fans with its magical adventure and morality lesson (Jiminy Cricket wasn’t so bad himself), and director Robert Zemeckis is hoping to recapture some of that magic in the

Well, they pop out of cuckoo clocks made by woodcarver and Pinocchio's dad, Geppetto (Tom Hanks), and it's a rather blink-and-you'll-miss-it montage of Easter ...

In a nod to the first animated Disney film released in 1937 before Pinocchio in 1940, Snow White stands outside a clock resembling the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. Jessica Rabbit picks up her husband, Roger, and gives him a big old smooch in front of a cuckoo clock with hearts all around it. Well, they pop out of cuckoo clocks made by woodcarver and Pinocchio's dad, Geppetto (Tom Hanks), and it's a rather blink-and-you'll-miss-it montage of Easter eggs. Here are the references I could see — maybe you've spotted more? But did you notice a few familiar faces, too? Maleficent, the antagonist from 1959's Sleeping Beauty, storms out of her castle clock with her staff and raven Diablo, as the camera pans up to poor ol' Aurora in the attic, touching the forbidden spindle on the chime.

Pinocchio is Walt Disney Pictures' 18th go at revisiting one of their beloved classics into what's become their signature live-action/computer animation hybrid ...

With this retelling, there’s far too much fealty to the visuals and plot points of Walt Disney’s 1940 animated classic, yet the script clearly bristles at being beholden to its old-fashioned constraints. Otherwise, it’s like watching someone literally turn the 1940 movie, original designs and all, into a computer-animated version of essentially the same thing. There’s the addition of a talking seagull, Sofia (Lorraine Bracco), and the young puppeteer Fabiana (Kyanne Lamaya), who works for Stromboli (Giuseppe Battiston) and befriends puppet Pinocchio when he’s kidnapped by her boss. Everything from Gepetto’s tiny pet companions, Cleo and Figaro, to the majority of the hedonistic Pleasure Island are part of the expansive digital canvas of zeros and ones. It’s still about a little boy puppet, Pinocchio (voiced by Ben Ainsworth), carved by the kind and lonely woodcarver, Gepetto (played by Tom Hanks). The result is a schizophrenic, bland watch that feels like a big-budget movie made only for 6- to 12-year-olds.

Why can't we stop adapting this story? And why is every single adaptation just so creepy in its own special way?

That reflection of the human condition comes through in nearly every adaptation, but to get there with Pinocchio we have to cross the uncanny valley, traveling with a character who is almost-but-not-quite human, through most of the story. If you want to dig into what it is that appeals to us about the story of Pinocchio, take a look at what all these versions have in common: there’s a moral through line that connects his adventures, and a series of hard and scary lessons he must learn on his way to becoming a real boy. This might be the one time that the creepiness works in the story’s favor. - The Erotic Adventures Of Pinocchio (1971): An X-rated version billed as “a bedtime story for adults,” this hot take involves a “virgin” named Geppetta who stumbles upon a talking log in the forest and decides to carve it into the perfect man. This one is by far the oddest of the two. Later this year, Guillermo del Toro will put his own spin on the story in a version that makes use of miniatures and stop-motion animation and sets the story against the backdrop of fascist Italy. You can even find traces of it in the popular anime Astro Boy. But it was in the 1960s and ’70s when Pinocchio adaptations really started getting strange. What is it about Pinocchio, the story of a marionette puppet who wants to become a real boy, that makes filmmakers keep coming back to it, again and again? Collodi eventually collected the stories into a single volume and published it in 1883, but that serialized origin will always be a part of Pinocchio’s DNA. The next notable adaptation came along in 1957, a black-and-white television special starring Mickey Rooney as the title character (he would have been 37 at the time). It was a 45-minute Italian silent film that shows Pinocchio—portrayed by a fully grown man in a clown costume, complete with long nose—defying Geppetto as soon as he finishes carving him and wildly rampaging through a little village square.

Pinocchio star Benjamin Evan Ainsworth details his audition process and shares behind-the-scenes stories from Disney's latest live-action remake.

I thought it was really impressive; the art and the art department, and what they did with all the locations. And also the CGI and the live-action, and how they coincide together, I thought it was really cool. It was shot in this massive studio, and it was called Cardington Airfield — It was a massive studio the size of the Titanic and it was where they held the Zeppelins in the World War — And all of the sets of Pinocchio were in this massive studio, every location Pinocchio goes to. Then it was the meeting; the Zoom meeting in the time of COVID. I thought it was very important to stay true to that, so I listened to a lot of Dickie Jones' Pinocchio. Though he has plenty of onscreen experience, playing a wooden puppet in a Disney film is another story, and he learned plenty of exciting things behind the camera thanks to the film.

Robert Zemeckis' Pinocchio is here on Disney+ and we talked to composer Alan Silvestri and lyricist Glen Ballard about the update of the classic.

It was amazing to be involved in it, and one of the things that’s been most fun over the years is I have three young granddaughters now. When a six-year-old’s favorite film is something you did that far back, it’s just amazing to be part of things like that. It’s like, “If you guys are thinking of anything, do it and bring it to me because it could be a great idea and I will change the movie.” He’s magnificent in that way as a collaborator. The whole Disney model is you use songs to help to tell the story. You have to live with your fear and your terror and you have to work through, and that’s life also with Mr. You’ll start talking through the story and he’ll go, “Okay, and here’s where you guys are going to write your first classic Christmas song. We had a great director who wanted songs to help to tell the story. And then here’s where you’re going to write your second classic Christmas song.” Again, I’m back to terrified. What was Zemeckis’ direction to both of you? We talked about whether or not they were afraid to take on the project, what Zemeckis’ direction to them was and whether or not Silvestri would return for another live-action remake of a Disney animated classic – “Lilo & Stitch.” (Silvestri provided the music for the original.) The motivation was if it was 100%, it’s 110%. Actually, my association with it actually goes to that song.

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British actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth studied the 1940 Pinocchio to master the voice of the boy puppet.

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The new Disney Plus movie Pinocchio is a mostly live-action remake of the 1940 Disney animated classic about a wooden boy who longs to become real, ...

Pinocchio shared some new character posters for the Disney+ movies. Tom Hanks is front and center as Geppetto, Cynthia Erivo is the Blue Fairy, ...

Gordon-Levitt added, "The important thing that I love more than anything about Pinocchio is the moral of the story, which is the importance of telling the truth, and what happens to you if you start telling lies. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto, the wood-carver who builds and treats Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) as if he were his own son. And Jiminy Cricket is sort of the ultimate guy who talks right to the camera and tells the audience what's what," Gordon-Levitt told the press. [shared some new](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/pinocchio-live-action-disney-plus-sequel-movies/) character posters for the [Disney+](/category/disney-streaming-service/) movies. Here's how Disney describes Pinocchio for all the people curious out there: "Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis directs this live-action retelling of the beloved tale of a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks is front and center as Geppetto, Cynthia Erivo is the Blue Fairy, and [Joseph Gordon-Levitt brings Jiminy Cricket](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/disney-plus-pinocchio-movie-clip-jiminy-cricket-joseph-gordon-levitt/) to life.

I've loved other live-action movies by Disney, especially “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast,” but “Pinocchio” didn't strike me as a film on par with either ...

I thought the original was significantly better and that the new movie was overall mediocre. Take for example, the live-action “Beauty and the Beast.” Even though the plot is very similar, the dialogue is different and beyond that, Disney created an absolutely beautiful film. The mix of animation and human characters did very little to bring it to life. The live-action “Pinocchio” premiered on Disney+ on Thursday. The titular character clearly looked fake and the film suffers massively in the aesthetic department because of the inharmonious blending of these elements. I’ve loved other live-action movies by Disney, especially “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast,” but “Pinocchio” didn’t strike me as a film on par with either one of them.

Disney has once again raided its treasure chest of animated classics, and its latest endeavor from the workshop is Robert Zemeckis' live-action remake of ...

In a movie crammed with scenes replicating notable ones from the original, it's interesting that these two clocks were chosen over the rest to be re-created in live action. Besides these, there are also a couple more time-checkers on Geppetto's wall that hark back to the original "Pinocchio." It makes perfect sense for a pair of them to pay homage to the film's star and director in this new take. That unmistakable outfit and dangling frame dancing around will certify a smile, just as much as seeing the wild rabbit from Toontown that Robert Zemeckis roped in back in 1988. From ducks feeding to a turkey narrowly escaping death, a wild array of animated wall accessories stand out in the classic version. Many years have passed since Disney's original take on the story of a puppet that wanted to be a real boy.

The director of Back to the Future and The Witches brings us the first of two big-name feature-length movies about the magical puppet Pinocchio to be ...

[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isQI0nXQRE) [Back to the Future’s opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isQI0nXQRE) [ enough? [Dumbo](/news/2019-03-28/dumbo-film-review-tim-burton-does-live-action-disney-remake/10937008) (2019), Zemeckis – working from a screenplay he wrote with Chris Weitz – hews pretty close to Disney’s original, refusing the temptation to blow what is ultimately a simple, intimate story right out of proportion, or to inflate the run time beyond the capacity of a fidgety youngster, or indeed adult. [an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches](/news/2020-12-10/the-witches-review-anne-hathaway-octavia-spencer-roald-dahl/12956610) [,](/news/2020-12-10/the-witches-review-anne-hathaway-octavia-spencer-roald-dahl/12956610) did at least skip the creepy mo-cap stuff. [](/news/2020-12-10/the-witches-review-anne-hathaway-octavia-spencer-roald-dahl/12956610) Even with the grain of his material newly made visible, the CGI-ed Pinocchio (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) is no wooden screen presence, and Zemeckis regular Tom Hanks appears chuffed to don Geppetto’s brass-buckled shoes and dote upon his de facto son.

Comedian Pauly Shore is the voice behind Pinocchio in Lionsgate's 'Pinocchio: A True Story.' Here's what we know about the role and his net worth.

He also starred in the movies Encino Man and Biodome. Comedian and actor Pauly Shore voiced the character of Pinocchio in Pinocchio: A True Story. While Pinocchio's love interest is a female in the film, many folks felt the new Pinocchio was an LGBTQ icon (he just didn't know it yet). Born in 1968, Pauly is a little bit older than a teenager, and unlike new Pinocchio, his natural speaking voice is flat and orotund. He previously starred in his own comedy and music series Totally Pauly on MTV in the 1990s. "GIVING SLAY," wrote one user in the comments. [Disney's live-action reboot of Pinocchio starring Tom Hanks](https://www.distractify.com/p/tom-hanks-accent-pinocchio). He was older and his voice sounded more mature, yet there was a distinctive effeminate undertone. More like Pinot, Glee, and being a hoe!” He falls for the ringmaster's daughter and longs to become human." [TikTok](https://www.distractify.com/t/tiktok), fans immediately noticed that something was different about Pinocchio. No seriously, it’s 2022 and there are three different films titled "Pinocchio" that have either been released or will be by the end of the year.

Tom Hanks as Geppetto in Pinocchio. Photo: Disney. MOVIE: Pinocchio. WHERE TO WATCH: Disney+. OUR RATING: 3/ ...

More cynically-minded adults might struggle to see past these flaws for the magic of the Wooden Boy, and to them, I say - maybe stop growing up. This Pinocchio is a little sweeter and more compassionate earlier on in the movie than in the animated version, and I preferred this one's softness. For Hanks, the role of the quirky Gepetto is also a breezy walk in the park, but you don't need much more from him either. Most of his scenes were actually with only himself as everything else was CGI, but he has a knack for making you believe in the unbelievable. This version follows the original story pretty closely, with a few tweaks to give it a fresh new coat and a more modern message for Generation Alpha kids. In the realm of the Mighty Mouse, the task is even more difficult, veering between outright cash grabs and finding new light in old tales while staying true to the original heart.