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Pinocchio (2002)
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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
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1/4 |
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The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor. Full Review |
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0/4 |
Head-slapping, what-the-f*ck-is-this-for-real? trippiness. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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C- |
Like Robin Williams on speed, [Roberto Benigni] darts about the screen showing less restraint than a shark in blood-stained water. Full Review |
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3/10 |
Better this log-headed Pinocchio had been burned at the stake. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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 Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
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? Full Review |
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Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed. Full Review |
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D+ |
Seriously, rent the Disney version. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1/10 |
It's a frightful vanity film that, no doubt, pays off what debt Miramax felt they owed to Benigni. Full Review |
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If you saw Benigni's Pinocchio at a public park, you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police. Full Review |
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Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly. Full Review |
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1/4 |
What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log? Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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