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Pinocchio (2002)

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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Reviews Counted: 54
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Roberto Benigni misfires wildly with this adaptation of Pinocchio, and the result is an unfunny, poorly-made, creepy vanity project.

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Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
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Roberto Benigni misfires wildly with this adaptation of Pinocchio, and the result is an unfunny, poorly-made, creepy vanity project.

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Academy Award-winner Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. In his usual fashion, Benigni directs and stars, this time as the little puppet boy made out of wood. The familiar story begins as a log of pinewood falls out of a cart and lands in front of woodcarver, Geppetto (Carlo Giuffré), who carves the puppet out of longing for a son. When the puppet begins to come alive and cause trouble, Geppetto is arrested and

Jul 15, 2003

$3.6M

Miramax Films

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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (56) | DVD (9)

The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?

January 3, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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What remains is a variant of the nincompoop Benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible Sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of Road Trip.

January 3, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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I can't say this enough: This movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies.

January 3, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone.

January 3, 2003 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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An epic turkey, in a league with this year's Swept Away, that must be seen to be believed.

January 3, 2003 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Head-slapping, what-the-f*ck-is-this-for-real? trippiness.

September 15, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Like Robin Williams on speed, [Roberto Benigni] darts about the screen showing less restraint than a shark in blood-stained water.

August 1, 2003 Comment

From concept to execution it is a huge mistake.

July 23, 2003 Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

There's no zip, no spark, no imagination, no real life in the story, let alone in the puppet.

July 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Better this log-headed Pinocchio had been burned at the stake.

July 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment (1)
Movie Metropolis

Every good actor needs to do his or her own Hamlet. For Benigni it wasn't Shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but Pinocchio. It might as well have been Problem Child IV.

April 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment

This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy.

February 26, 2003 Comment
Creative Loafing

What's most incredible is not that Benigni thought that he could pull off a believable wooden puppet who wants to be a boy, nor thet he could turn such a charming story into such a horrifically scary tale, but that the people of Italy love this movie so m

February 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | Comment (1)
Zap2it.com

This overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary. Hmmm...might I suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener?

February 3, 2003 Full Review Source: TheWorldJournal.com | Comment
TheWorldJournal.com

Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice.

January 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed.

January 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Fantastica Daily | Comment
Fantastica Daily

Seriously, rent the Disney version.

January 9, 2003 Comments (3)
Film Blather

Adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like Pinocchio. As for children, they won't enjoy the movie at all.

January 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

It's a frightful vanity film that, no doubt, pays off what debt Miramax felt they owed to Benigni.

January 7, 2003 Full Review | Comment
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Mal feito. Porà (C)m atà (C) agora o melhor filme da história de Pinoquio que vi.

May 6, 2011
Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

Gosh, what a piece of pretentious guffaw-inducing celluloid. Benigni doesn't fit the Pinocchio role well. He's not cute or funny - he's a bit of a buffoon. There's no magic here; move along!

August 3, 2007
YosemiteSamFan

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