Pinocchio (2022) - DisneyCember 

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The main problem with the remakes is this: the beats are all there, but the rhythm is all off. Thus what we get, is a rushed mess because they just fast traveled to the emotional highlights, without realizing WHY those highlights like Nala reuniting with Simba, the Donkey scene, or Aladdin and Genie forming their friendship....are emotional highlights.

I really didn’t enjoy this movie, but there is at least one good thing about it. And that is the fact that it is making people look back in the old one, and making them realize how good it actually is.

Doug was honestly way nicer to this than everyone else has been

The long drawn out scene of Pinnochio just staring at a bunch of clocks of Disney IPs perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the movie

Three different Pinocchio movies this year. And when people say the Pauli Shore one where Pinocchio gets gunned down by a cat wasn’t the worst of the three, you know a horrible mistake was made.

This is the year of Pinocchio: The Good (Del Toro), The Bad (Zemeckis), and The Ugly (Pauly Shore).

The Del Toro Pinocchio film is honestly amazing and (to no one’s surprise) makes this film look like a joke.

I’ll admit, while this isn’t a great remake, it does have its charming moments. My favorite being Geppetto’s reaction to Pinocchio’s story: “ YOU DID ALL THAT IN *ONE* DAY!? “

I think the main reason why Pinocchio doesn't already have the lessons learned when the Blue Fairy brings him to life is because he's much like a new born baby. As a baby grows and can develop the capacity to learn from right and wrong with their parents guidance, Pinocchio has to learn to do so through his conscious with Jiminy. If he already had the lessons learned then he wouldn't be able to grow that much as a character, let alone an individual. The best prime example that a person can grow is by making bad decisions like we always do rather intentional or unintentionally, and learn from those decisions.

This movie hurts because it's made by Robert Zemeckis, the man who brought us Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Forrest Gump. It's such a shame he's been making dud after dud recently with this, The Witches, and Welcome to Marwen.

It's ironic that a film about a wooden puppet wanting to become a real boy could be so soulless...

Even my wife, who is a Disney-holic, and who has been very forgiving and apologetic about most of the other live action remakes, said “what the hell was that” when this was over. When you can’t win over a true blue Disney fan, you’ve botched something.

Pinocchio in the book: “I think I’ll follow the noise and go to school tomorrow. I’ve got plenty of my life to go to school.” If Pinocchio’s 2022 counterpart was in the book: “I think I’ll go to school instead of following the noise. It’d be better to listen to my father than let my curiosity lead me astray.” This comparison pretty much says how much they got the character of Pinocchio wrong in the 2022 film version of the 1940 film.

I've read the book when I was a child, as many kids do in Italy (I hope no one will be surprised to hear that "Pinocchio" is an italian fairy tale), after seeing the old Disney movie. As others, I discovered that many of Pinocchio's adventures were cut in the movie (other adaptions actually show that parts). It is a shame the writers didn't choose to include some of those parts, there are some interesting things. Also, for people who never read the book: -The fairy didn't give Pinocchio life. Pinocchio was already alive even before becoming a puppet: he was a magic, talking piece of wood (Pine wood --> so he was called Pinocchio). It is never explained why this piece of wood was magic, maybe it came from a magic tree? (When I was a kid I thought Pinocchio was some sort of wild spirit tree before being cut and turned into a puppet). -He actually went to school for some time. He lived with the fairy for some months and went to school, trying to be a good boy. He was actually a good students, but then the other children started to mock him, he got angry and he got into trouble (one of this kids was Lampwick/Lucignolo, they met in school). (Also Lampwick/Lucignolo is not the real name of the boy, his name was Romero). -One grim detail about the story: Pinocchio can't grow and get older, but other human characters can. The fairy is a young girl in the first part of the book and grow older later, Gepetto gets older in the story... So if Pinocchio doesn't become a real child he will loose everyone he loves (grim detail, sorry). -A detail connected to the previous point: in the last part of the novel Pinocchio has to work in order to support his father* and finds a job in a farm. There he meet Lampwick/Lucignolo again: he spent years turned into a donkey, working in the farm for years. The donkey, old, sick and tired, dies in Pinocchio's arms. *he had to work several hours everyday for months while Gepetto lies in bed, old and sick.

Robert Zemeckis has literally went from one of the most respected directors in Hollywood to a point where every time I hear about Robert Zemeckis making a movie I’m gonna expect something half baked

I think him going to school would've been interesting. Like have him pick up bad habits from the other kids, unaware this isn't how good kids act, and when he takes it to far this gets him thrown out before being picked up by Honest John who tells he wasn't being bad, they were just mean and they know a place where everyone would love him.

When is Disney going to learn that their live action remakes just don't work, they'll never have the magic of the original.

I do love hearing someone else who liked the ballet dancer girl, she did kinda feel like a missed opportunity and I do wish we saw more of her

Well, at least this one proved one thing: the girls aren't the only ones these remakes can make too perfect. Guys, Pinnocchio is a sweet boy who loves his father and Jiminy, but he's SUPPOSED to also be easily manipulated to do bad things! What does he have to learn if he's disgusted by Pleasure Island, or has to be thrown out of school to want to be an actor?!

Anyone excited to see the Pinocchio movie that’s gonna come on Netflix?

It really bothers me how, not only did they turn the blue fairy black, but they also took away her hair and legs, made her use her magic clumsily, and only gave her that *one scene.* Whereas the original blue fairy had legs and long blonde hair, used her magic professionally, and helped Pinocchio four times - first giving him life, then teaching him a lesson about honesty, then sending him a message about what happened to his father, and finally... what was it again... oh yeah... turning him into a real boy in the end! Way to strike a good hard blow to racism, Disney! Can't wait to see how you "fix" Ariel's character! Then there's Pinocchio kicking his legs really fast, to make the boat move faster, which makes me picture Dash flipping him both his middle fingers. And the magic tear thing, which has me picturing Rapunzel flipping him her middle fingers.

Also, I already expressed my thoughts on the remake itself in Mr. Enter's video, so I'm just going to say this: I'm watching the Del Toro version when it comes out on Netflix two days from now. It's the first adaptation of a fairy tale in a long while that actually looks interesting to me. The director's style is fascinating to me and will definitely make the experience unique for me.

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I stick with the original animated one. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio will be two of my favorite animated Pinocchio adaptation

What makes me laugh: in the English version: they drink rootbeer because beer to kids is now a no-no in movies. In the Italian version: we don't have a translation for rootbeer, so we'll go with "beer".

_"Father tell me, where can I be on my own? I got the whole world to see."_ This is the kind of quote that made Carlo Collodi rolled his grave.

The only good things for me from this adaptation were Pleasure Island, the idea that Pinocchio was Geppetto's dead son (thought that was very underutilized), the smoke monsters (a really cool reimagining of the Coachman's silhouette goons), and Pinocchio's tail and ears being wooden (that tail is badass). And I'll admit the puppeteer girl was a nice addition, though there needed to be more done with her (maybe have her go help save Pinocchio from Pleasure Island or rescue Geppetto, just something). Everything else was worse than garbage, it was the scene of Pinocchio smelling CGI horse crap (you know that animator felt terrible after having to animate that).

In the Collodi original, the Blue Fairy didn't create Pinocchio - he was a sentient piece of wood even before he was carved! The Blue Fairy shows up about halfway in, as the Azure Maiden, who is originally just this dead girl hanging out in a house where everybody else is dead and so can't help Pinocchio, who's running for his life, too. The original is hella dark and anyone who hasn't read it and wants a trippy, dark original - this is it! Consider me jumping up and down and waving and saying REALLY, GO AND READ IT!!!! You'll never look at the Disney movie - classic or remake - the same way again!

I can’t believe you didn’t talk about how well the cgi work for honest John was. Like someone took good time to animated the expressions very very well to make honest John seem real.

As far as I’m concerned, the changes they did make here utterly ruined the story, and I was constantly baffled as to why they made the choices they made. If it weren’t for the Lion King remake, this would be my least favorite of all of them.

One thing Doug failed to mention was that everyone HATES this adaptation of Pinocchio, and everyone told me to stay away from this movie. I'd listen to them because Pinocchio was my favorite Disney movie as a kid, and I feel this movie would ruin my love for the original.

Pinocchio has one simple premise, a misbehaving puppet became a real boy after he learned to be good, and in this movie Pinocchio never misbehaved and never became a real boy, fantastic

Really counterintuitive to put this on D+ right away, because it makes it even easier for people to just switch over to the 1940 original.

Just when you think Disney can’t sink any lower with the remakes, they manage to do it somehow

This is why Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is currently succeeding while this Disney monstrosity isn’t. Del Toro changed a lot of elements, but kept true to the heart and soul of the original story. He put a lot work and effort into making his take on the story, so much so that he spent almost 15 years trying to make it. He knew what made the classic tale timeless and keeps that theme throughout his version. Disney’s Live Action version tanks because they’re cheaply manipulating us to watch the same thing beat for beat. There is no heart and soul in Disney’s, just cheap parlor tricks. Nothing more.

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So, is everyone excited for Guillermo's Pinnochio?

I'll gladly take Guillermo De Toro's Pinocchio thank you very much!

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Calling this a carbon copy of the original is insulting to the original. This feels more like Asylums version of Pinocchio.

I just hate how none of the story beats happen because of Pinocchio being bad or ignoring his conscience. He TRIES to go to school and only goes to Stromboli when the teacher kicks him out. He doesn't go to Pleasure Island on his own (even in the original film, he gets taken by Honest John and Gideon). And how the Blue Fairy only shows up the one time at the start, makes the mixed messaging take place. She helped him out of the cage because he asked for a second chance in the original, here he lies to make his nose reach the key. And how they say Stromboli was arrested but not Honest John, Gideon, or the Coachman.

Everything this film tried to do, the Guillermo Del Toro version that will be on Netflix this Friday actually succeeded... the original 1940 version is still my favorite Pinocchio (and, along with Beauty and the Beast, my favorite film from Disney's animated film canon), but Guillermo Del Toro has given us a brilliant companion piece that makes this remake look like more of a joke than it already did.

Geppetto: "Now you be a good little Pinocchio, and don't a you a make a live action remake". Pinocchio: "I promise I will never do a live action remake". (Noise grows and pokes Geppetto in the eye) Geppetto: "OUCH".

*Disney: makes the Pinocchio remake* Everyone: "Go ahead, make a fool of yourself, then maybe you'll listen to your conscience!"

He did turn into a real boy, they did a slight change in his elbows and back of the knees, it happens when they are walking away, you can see it change from wood to smooth connections with arms and legs.

….the reason why the Blue Fairy doesn’t automatically instill morality and virtue in Pinocchio is because the whole message of the film is that *becoming a real, full person requires maturity that can only come from overcoming trials and temptations.* Life seems to come from outside the material world; that’s why it’s represented magically. So if life exists and comes from outside of any mortal’s control, maturity - growing into the responsibilities of that mystical Life you’ve been given - is really about you, the individual, choosing to accept that Life and to shoulder the commensurate responsibility of honoring Life by becoming virtuous. That requires trials and temptations to allow you the opportunities to see the virtue of Life and how that gift can be abused, and to intentionally turn away from the wrong choices. That is the most fundamental and obvious message of Pinocchio.

The original Pinocchio and I'm not talking about the original animated Disney Pinocchio. It was batshit crazy with Jiminy Cricket being murdered and the attempted lynching of Pinocchio.

Funny how we got three Pinocchio films this year and only one of them looks like it doesn't suck.

Honestly the biggest crime of this remake to me is being mostly forgettable. the only thing that I really enjoyed was the fact that one of the new characters would speak with Pinocchio through her puppet. Other than that, most of the rest of the stuff is done far superior in the original 1940 animated movie

The point you brought up about “Pinocchio already learning the lessons if his personality was made from scratch” nitpick is even more true with this movie because he basically already has a conscience and tries to be a good boy anyway even without jiminys help. The only thing missing is that he wasn’t made a real boy in the beginning. And this movie doesn’t even do that much

I'd be very interested in seeing Doug and Rob do a tierlist of the Disney remakes giving them all a grade from a to f.

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Hey Doug, if you recall my grandmother wanted to watch this with me since this was her fave movie as a little girl. She really stinking enjoyed it, and I admit I had a better time than I thought haha. She said it took her all the way back to the 40’s.

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I didn't really mind if they changed Monstro's design, but the moment I saw how they did the chase sequence compared to the original... The image of Vito Corleone saying, "Look how they massacred my boy," popped into my head

If anything, the reboot gave me a better appreciation of the original and then an even greater appreciation for Del Toro's version that takes from the original book and Disney film and does something completely new and amazing with it.

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Interestingly, a lot of the changes to the story are apparently the same as in Guillermo del Toro's adaptation. However, whereas del Toro completely re-contextualizes the story about discrimination and acceptance, so the changes make sense there, Disney wants to keep it close enough to their original film without thinking about how the changes clash with that.

The villains were really dumbed down too. The ringleader from Pleasure Island wasn’t as threatening as he was before. Not to mention, there is no explanation why he has a legion of shadow monsters working for him. I feel like that undermines the realism by portraying threats as literal monsters. Also, I kind of liked keeping Stromboli’s fate ambiguous but here, we see him go to prison. The whole point I got from the original was that life usually wasn’t fair and keeping good morals was the best way to be successful. I’m not sure why Doug liked the scene where they find Monstro better in this version. For a movie from the 40s the original had an awesome watery effect on screen when Pinocchio went underwater. I would always pick the original over this soulless remake. Kind of surprised that Doug never mentioned the horse crap.

This film is only really notable for basically just seeing Tim Hanks REALLY TRYING to stop it from collapsing around him.

I'm mad at how underutilized Jiminy is. It's like the remake needed him out of the way until plot. In fact, not many touch upon this when comparing the two but in the OG, Jiminy initially agreed to be Pinocchio's conscience for selfish reasons (I distinctly remember him being more reward-seeking) but grew out of it during the journey. It's minor character development but it's better than how squeaky clean and stagnant he is in the remake. Now that I think about it, even Pinoke himself is squeaky clean in the remake. I feel he has no agency and he's merely guided to where the plot needs him to be. Overall, the remake is far too soft for my tastes. Too much whimsy and not enough trauma to make the lessons stick

There's a saying: "Don't try to fix what's already perfect!" Why are they keep making these remakes if almost 80% of them are complete failures? Why aren't they using some good actors that already voiced those characters? Look at the Kingdom Hearts franchise - they had the heart to bring the original voice actors to play these characters again and they do a perfect job, unlike here. I felt a rushed story with so much to show and so little time in these environments. Also, WHY MONSTRO NEEDS TO BE A SEA MONSTER WITH TENTACLES, WHEN IN THE ORIGINAL IT WAS A GIANT WHALE, A WHALE OF A WHALE? The ending felt super rushed, when in the original we had a heartbreaker moment, after a scary chase against a giant and angry whale! When I watched the original movie for the first time, I was 5-6 years old, and that finale made me felt a lot of emotions from hope to scare to dread to sadness to hapiness, while here the only thing I felt was disappointment.

I recommend the 2019 Italian version. It follows the original stories more closely and has some of the best practical makeup I've seen in recent memory.

4:25 Well, there was a Pleasure Island, seperate from the parks, more for adults than kids. But now it's Disney springs.

The biggest disappointment for me was the lessons of story, and the fact that Pinocchio doesn’t become a real boy at the end is just an absolute insult to the moral of the story. Disney has shown there more for making money than they are to making movies with good lessons. I’m so ready for the new Pinocchio by Del Toro.

Believe it or not, this is one of my favourite Disneycember episodes Doug ever did. I don't know why, but just hearing him talk about things he actually enjoyed in a movie that was critically panned is kind of refreshing. I have seen a number of Pinocchio 2022 reviews that just tore it apart and ripped it to shreds and here Doug is very calm and just matter-of-factly explains the things that work and the things that didn't work, all of which you completely understand and buy. Again I don't know why, but it makes me bizarrely happy, almost like it's a "comfort episode" of the Disneycember series. I just watch or listen to this and I feel happy and content.

It's appreciated that you wanted to expand the medium beyond movies, but there are already so many movies that doing other stuff leaves them by the wayside as a result. There are also always new movies too that if you ask me, can wait longer to give the older ones credence first and foremost. So many older movies that should've been covered by this point that you still haven't done like Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves and new/relatively new ones that also won't be covered like Adventures in Babysitting 2016, Zombies 3, Murder on the Orient Express 2017 and Death on the Nile 2022.

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Let's all pray the little mermaid isn't as bad XD

I'm sorry but seeing that blue fairy for the first time had me rolling on the ground laughing.

I might have an explanation as to why she didn't give him the lesson, its a bit of a stretch but it does make sense (to me at least). The reason why he wants Pinocchio to learn them in his own, is just because he needs to know them but to give him experience that expands the lesson in his own unique way. Because throughout growing up and go on the road of learning lessons, the path gives us experiences along the way that influence how we learn these lessons.

The idea of revealing Gepetto's past means it's less bizarre that he wishes for Pinocchio to come to life.

You really should watch The Adventures of Pinocchio from 1996 if you haven't already. It's not the greatest but it has its own unique atmosphere that honestly was always kind of eerie to me. As well as some pretty inventive designs and ideas, with clearly a lot of care put into them. Would love to hear your thoughts on it! Also a beautiful soundtrack by Rachel Portman if you're into that.

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Another great symbol that I feel they’ve ignored here is that Lampwick and Pinocchio don’t turn into “donkeys” simply because donkeys, no, they turn into “Jackasses!” They were very particular about using the term jackasses in the 1940 film BECAUSE of the lesson being shown: that if you drink, smoke, and gamble, you become a jackass. I mean, okay, I get it, maybe they can’t get away with the same terminology today, but by replacing the beer with root beer, the point about drunkenness and debauchery is LOST! How does drinking root beer make someone a jackass? How does being peer pressured and strung along by fake friends make you a jackass? If anything, that makes you a victim of abuse, not a jackass. They tried making Pinocchio too pure hearted here, as well as muddying the lessons meant to be learned when we’re supposed to believe he’s acting out. This isn’t a naive boy discovering the world and learning from his mistakes anymore, this is just a kindhearted boy being taken advantage of by people he seems to know are bad news already, and while it’s great to teach kids to recognize that, I don’t think that’s the lesson Disney had in mind when trying to write for this one, nor was it carried out well from what I can see.

When people said "Pinocchio doesn't need a remake" I was like "I think Pinocchio is the one that needed the most". Outside the fact that the original is good looking, the plot itself isn't perfect, neither normally nor from the book prospective: why the Fairy would leave the job halfway, it's like the genie ordering the prince outfit to finish Aladdin's wish; the movie keeps acting like it's Pinocchio's fault for stepping away from the straight path, while he's actually DRAGGED AWAY BY FORCE by Honest John; he lies for no reason "why didn't you go to school?" "I could say a Fox brought me here even if I said to him, multiple times, I had to go to school, but no..."; he dies to some rocks? The puppet that doesn't breathe nor feels pain? And the biggest plot hole is... the original doesn't even fully learn to be honest and unselfish! Brave? Sure he saved his father from a killer whale. Truthful? He lies for no reason at all. Unselfish? Ignores his conscience's advices, leaves his so-called "best friend" to a terrible fate without looking back and is not at all concerned that his three pets (Jiminy included) are lost at SEA with a KILLER WHALE on their tails! Geez, the videogame had to create ways to make him earn the medal of sincerity and unselfishness! This is a red flag made of plot holes. At least the remake fixes some of this: Pinocchio is convinced (like in the book) to step away from the straight path, at least here the villains wait for a "ok, let's go" from him instead of just drag him away; he does lie this time because he's too embarassed to say he was bullied by the borderline-racist teacher but then fixes his nose by telling the truth, proving himself truthful, he does enjoy the "have fun" part of Pleasure Island but less the "be a bad kid" because he actually learns what's good and bad with time, something the original learn just after it was too late; Lampy is now unlikable and him being abandoned feels less guilty; the unslifhness is proved at the beach and, most beautiful of all, it's Jiminy and Pinocchio that put to their minds that Geppetto wanted a real boy and the fairy, having done the Geppetto's wish, goes to Pinocchio and ASKS HIM (not "imposes") if he wants to be a real boy. Even the ending is good: we all saw Pinocchio always turn into a boy at the end of (almost) EVERY adaptations, but Pinocchio is the wooden boy, not the kid that was made of wood, I love they open ended the story and specified, the inner mental growth of Pinocchio was what matter the most, not his body's changes. I even love the fact that the real boy part isn't played by a real actor: I kinda dislike when at the last minute it comes a boy to say "I'm Pinocchio": no, Pinocchio was that wooden prop/CGI doll, not this normal kid that isn't even short as the puppet. I really loved that. I agree that emotionally and visually, the original is better, but we also have to agree that with all those plot holes I mentioned, it's not difficult to improve Disney's Pinocchio's plot: for this case, a SENTENCE about Pinocchio wanting to become real before the fairy could impose to him this task was ALL THAT IT NEEDED! As a Pinocchio conosieur, I feel proud of this movie. They even managed to squeeze a bit of "Geppetto", the previous Pinocchio's live action remake, in it, with Geppetto saying "It doesn't matter to me if you're made out of flash or wood. I love you for what you are".

Anyone noticed there's a lot of Pinocchio movies that are being made latley

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I feel like Pleasure Island in the remake, albeit nice looking, missed the point of why it was called that. In the original you had the rough house where the boys could fight each other, a literal mansion where they could destroy it, a bar that they could drink alcohol along with play pool (Still don't understand the pool billiard part, but it was in bars I guess?), and statues throwing cigars for them to smoke. Things that were not good or, in this sense, like Critic said, naughty. All I see in the remake of pleasure island is fun and no harm done to what is there. It looks neat, but missed the mark so bad which makes me glad that I grew up watching the original regardless of how things may have been accepted back then.

6:52 So, Jiminy Cricket's a semi-reliable narrator? Did Disney invent a new trope?

Marketing team: "Hey kids, remember our story of Pinnochio? Well go watch that instead."

I guess I never really thought about why the Blue Fairy doesn’t just write the personality with the lessons already learned. I think it’s like Pinocchio has been born, so the Blue Fairy doesn’t necessarily have omnipotence. Further, perhaps it’s the fact that creating life is not to be taken lightly, so Pinocchio might have to prove that he deserves life, not that humans need to prove that before being born or becoming adults. You’re right, however, that it is a fairytale, and isn’t to be taken literally. Rather, we see reflections of ourselves, and may be inspired.

This movie was terrible, and I really like Robert Zemeckis. He doesn’t always deliver, but he’s made solid movies like Romancing The Stone, Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, and Polar Express. I don’t care what people say and how divisive it is, I’ve always liked Polar Express ever since I first saw it

The biggest gripe I have is the root beer. It’s kid friendly sure… but the kids are getting turned into donkeys, punished and enslaved… for drinking soda….

At least Guillermo's Pinocchio will have him be a little wooden bastard and proud of it.

There was a Pleasure Island, which was a nightclub area at DIsney World but it closed and now it's the landing at Disney Springs, a shopping center.

Sorry but really! disagree on the idea of the blue fairy having to form Pinocchio's personality. She gives him life, it's what he does with it that counts, that should be the lesson here. Heck, in the original novel the blue fairy doesn't turn up until a good ways into the story, the log Japetto is carving just randomly comes to life, which, yes is random, but in a world with talking cats, talking foxes and snakes that laugh so hard they split their sides, it's not %100 random. So much as I had problems with the remake, that wasn't one of them.

If Pinocchio is supposed to the reincarnation of Gepetto’s son maybe the blue fairy is the spirit of his dead wife

There was a meme where a kid actually screamed YOU ARE A TOY from Woody in Toy Story because Tom Hanks was Gipetto here, and I can't think of anything else whenver I see this.

one thing to change they could have done was punish the villains like in the Cinderella remake and have the school teacher learn to accept Pinocchio as the original movie no one looked down on him being wood

Disney needs to remake stuff that actually deserves a second chance for a better movie, like Pocahontas, Oliver & Company, etc.

I wonder what Doug thinks of Del Toro's Pinocchio. The only thing I heard from him about it was in the Blade 2 review, where they made a joke under the wrong impression that he would be directing this version.

You really need to see Guillermo Del Toro’s version, it is amazing, creative, and very different from the Disney one

6:10 FALSE... We see Pinocchio's leg change from wood to flesh. That subtly confirms Pinocchio *does* indeed transform!!

Ultron: their are....no strings on me

🎵On the 7th Day of DisneyCember Doug Walker gave to me, 7 Child Donkeys, 6 Burgers Frying, 5 DOCTOR STRANGE'S, 4 Red Pandas, 3 Best Friends, 2 Sid's a Slothing, and a Kickass Spiderman Game🎵

When Pinocchio tells a lie and his nose grows for Jiminy to get the key, i immediately shouted out, “I’m wearing ladies underwear!” from Shrek 2. It says something when these Disney remakes are straight up ripping off scenes from much better and funnier movies like Shrek 2. It makes me sad to see directors like Zemeckis at this point of his career making movies that don’t have the same magic as his earlier ones. I watched The Polar Express recently and that movie is paced way better than this Pinocchio, the dialogue in Polar Express actually moves things along and doesn’t meander, it could just be that movies like Monsters, Inc. and The Polar Express and even the Disney films from that time like Bambi 2 and Bolt among others, are kinda extinct when it comes to quick, moving-forward dialogue in scripts that doesn’t overly repeat, like that goddamn CGI fox in this new Pinocchio. I swear, when Disney does their live-action remakes of Robin Hood and Zootopia, it’s gonna be just as bad. I’m sorry, i hate that fox in this movie so much. His dialogue was what got me thinking about the films I grew up with that I mentioned above and i don’t remember those films having such meandering and annoying dialogue. Goddamn, these remakes… 😂 I’m sorry, i just went off