Though boasting sumptuous production design, this redundantly plotted vanity project sadly lacks magic or charm.
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01/03/03
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:0
Rotten:53
Average Rating:2.4/10
Consensus: Roberto Benigni misfires wildly with this adaptation of Pinocchio, and the result is an unfunny, poorly-made, creepy vanity project.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $3,627,416
Synopsis: Roberto Benigni (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) brings Carlo Collodi's classic children's story to life in this big budget live-action adaptation. Gepetto (Carlo Guiffre), a humble toy maker, fashions a... [More]
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Carlo Guiffre, Nicoletta Braschi, Breckin Meyer
Director: Roberto Benigni
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Reviews for Pinocchio
Even Pinocchio himself would pan this flick.
01/03/03
An epic turkey, in a league with this year's Swept Away, that must be seen to be believed.
01/03/03
Top CriticUtterly lacking in charm, wit and invention, Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film.
12/27/02
The movie unfolds in a clumsy zone between fantasy and realism, and in the end it's neither here nor there.
12/27/02
Top CriticAt times, the movie looks genuinely pretty. Your nightmares, on the other hand, will be anything but. Not even Felinni would know what to make of this Italian freakshow.
12/30/02
Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying.
12/27/02
Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice.
01/16/03
A film substantially lacking in personality, energy, magic and humor.
10/08/02
The film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's production design.
11/30/02
What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?
01/03/03
Top CriticA movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls.
12/26/02
Top CriticNo review available.
08/11/05
The so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing (featuring the voices of Glenn Close, Regis Philbin and Breckin Meyer) brings back memories of cheesy old Godzilla flicks.
01/03/03
Seriously, rent the Disney version.
01/09/03
Like Robin Williams on speed, [Roberto Benigni] darts about the screen showing less restraint than a shark in blood-stained water.
08/01/03
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?
02/03/03
Benigni's folly...In every sense of the word, the picture is just frightful; it will either terrify children or bore them to tears, and adults will be rightly appalled by it.
12/26/02
Audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school.
01/03/03
Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone.
01/03/03
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