Here’s hoping Benigni doesn't try to tackle The Little Mermaid as his next project.
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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
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
The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.
01/05/07
Top CriticThe 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
This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy.
02/26/03
No review available.
05/02/09
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 CriticThe idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough. The reality of the new live-action Pinocchio he directed, cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque.
12/27/02
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03/10/07
Top CriticBetter this log-headed Pinocchio had been burned at the stake.
07/15/03
Though boasting sumptuous production design, this redundantly plotted vanity project sadly lacks magic or charm.
01/03/03
At 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
No review available.
08/11/05
Would Benigni's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster?
01/03/03
Top CriticThe dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed.
01/10/03
Seriously, rent the Disney version.
01/09/03
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
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.
01/08/03
Absolutely (and unintentionally) terrifying.
12/29/02
Benigni's Pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted, its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow.
12/27/02
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