Watching Pinocchio (1940) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction! 

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It wasn’t so much what they drank but their overall actions. Acting like “jackasses” aka donkeys by doing bad things turned them into donkeys

The transformation into donkeys wasn't because of anything in the drinks or cigars. It was the magic of Pleasure Island, where a poorly-behaved child who made a jackass of himself would literally become one, the flipside of the Blue Fairy's promise that if he proved himself worthy he could ascend to humanity. "Pinocchio" was absolutely a "morality play" from Disney.

Nick, you radiate the wholesomeness of an entire litter of puppies.

Coachman: "They'll never come back as boys!" Nick: "He'll turn them into puppets..." Me: "Oh, much worse!"

"I've given you life." "Why?" Millennial soul feels this one.

"I don't know anything about Pinocchio." "Oh he's a puppet!" Wow you weren't kidding. That's awesome! I love when people are able to go into stories that fresh!

18:18 "What would an actor want with a conscience anyway?" That line cracks me up so much now! :)

“This is so dark” Buddy, you have no idea

I swear, that scene where the kids turned into donkeys and the freaking monster whale was a fever dream of mine

Actually, the phrase "Jiminy Crickets" was around before the character was named. It's basically the family friendly version of "Jesus Christ"

this film was partially nightmare fuel for me as a kid thanks to that scene where the kids turn into donkeys and that freaking whale

29:27 Kudos to the actor that played Lampy, because that scream STILL haunts my nightmares!

A few things to note are: This was Walt Disney’s second animated film right after Show White. This was released in 1940 and they had to change the character of Pinocchio because in the original book he was absolutely horrible and killed Jiminy with a hammer. The reason for the books of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan in the beginning background was they were supposed to be a teaser as what Walt had planned, but was having continuous problems with adapting them and due to world war 2 those projects had to be shelved and smaller less expensive films were made instead. Alice and Peter would not be made and released until the early 1950’s. This was the first in a long line of Disney films to win the Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Score. Which would not happen again until 1964’s Mary Poppins and then again until 1989’s The Little Mermaid. This is one of those rare films where the villains win. The boys are still donkeys, Honest John and Gideon have their reward and the Coachman will just keep continuing his operation.

I read the original book when I was little and it's soooo much darker. For instance, Pinocchio smashes the cricket with a hammer because he's too annoying (he still comes back as a spirit); the Fox and the Cat end up hanging Pinocchio to a tree to steal his money; the fairy fakes her death to guilt-trip Pinocchio for his misbehaviour; and Lampwick dies right in front of Pinocchio (a while after being transformed) because he's been overworked as a donkey. I sure prefer the Disney version better, lol

Honestly, man, I think you might be my favorite reactor on RU-vid right now. Unlike many of your toxic and stone-faced contemporaries, you wear your emotions like a sweater and you shouldn’t be afraid of showing it. Your reactions are actually genuine and sincere. There’s not much for me to say other than, I’m glad that I did discovered you.

That pleasure island scene is disturbing more even more as an adult. 😨 And the opening song is the first Disney song to win an Acadamy Award.

As an Italian girl, I am very happy that Walt Disney, as his 2° Disney classic, decided to tell a story of an Italian children's novel. Obviously, he changed a lot of things in the plot, besides the original names of the characters and places, but maybe it's better this way, because actually there are very dark events in this book and a lot of characters!! 😂

Fun fact: the melody of the song 'When You Wish Upon A Star' is often used on those classic Disney logo screens at the start of many of their movies.

Ever noted that the opening music is the famous modern Disney intro with the castle and all? :) Noone thinks that's just from Pinocchio.

The boys being turned into donkeys scene still scares me to this day. It's the island's curse. Boys who make jackasses of themselves literally get turned into them, and the Coachman is one of those rare cases where a Disney villain never gets what's coming to them.

Re-watching this movie just adds to my theory that Donkey from Shrek is in fact one of these transformed children that escaped 🙃

Ok...your "hurry hurry, grab him" was THE SWEETEST THING! You seem like such a nice soul in all of your reactions. They always make me smile.

I gotta say Pinocchio has definitely made an impact on me when I was younger. The act of simply concealing the truth has grave consequences no matter if you'd willingly endure it or not. Even as an adult now, I can say for sure that I'm trying my best to expose the truth instead of blatant lies even though it's thoroughly difficult...it's always gonna get you in trouble in the long run if the lying persists either consciously or unconsciously.

this movie is really good in terms of its animation, like remeber this was made in 1940 this must've blown peoples minds

"This cannot be a G rated Disney movie" Aye bruh back in my day cartoons are allowed to smoke crack and brutal cartoon violence and sexual comedies. This is typical of the time. This movie did terrify me to dedicate myself to school and the straight and narrow even if the film only talked about boys.

This is the first movie, in disney history, that thought to use famous actors of the time to voice characters. There is also a device that was created in order to animate multiple layers of cells to create a more live action appearance.

Spirited Away is an excellent movie- it's actually considered to be one of the best movies ever made. Can't wait for that review! :)

pinocchio is a hardcore... nick has no idea what a ride he's in for

Monstro terrified me as a child, more so than the donkey transformations. Glad you enjoyed the movie, it is a gem! 😁

Did anyone ever actually read the book the movie is based on? Pinocchio flat out kills Jiminy Cricket and, if I remember correctly, spends the rest of the story getting nagged at by his ghost lol

The story of Pinocchio is originally an episodic novel for kids written in Italy in the late 19th centuary. It's basically teaching kids to behave: go to school, work hard and honestly, respect your parents, don't follow bad advisors and so on. For that reason the original story is not really cohesive, it's just Pinocchio doing things and learning a lesson each time. To answer some of your questions during the movie: in Italy, childern got called "jackasses" when they were not studying (it's an old saying, I don't think parents use it anymore). So Pleasure Island is a not-so-subtle metaphore for that. Pinocchio and the other kids only thought of playing without doing their duty and that's why they get transformed into donkeys. No weird potion in their drinks, it's just their behaviour that transforms them. Moreover, in the original version, Pinocchio too gets fully transformed into a donkey and sold to a circus. He becomes some kind of donkey star in the circus, but one day he breaks one of his legs and his owner decides to kill him by drowning him in the sea. However fishes sent by the Fairy come and eat all the flesh, allowing the wooden puppet out from the donkey body (yeah, dark). In the Disney version they skip directely to him jumping from the cliff. On a side note, the original story is way way darker. In the Disney version, Pinocchio is very naif and gets dragged around by the Cat and the Fox, while in the original version he is way more in control of his actions and he is actively just doing what he wants, including selling the school book Geppetto bought for him by selling his only jacket to get into Stromboli's puppet show, following Lampwick to Pleasure Island, killing Jiminy (so his conscience), stealing, lying. Not really as cute and relatable as the Pinocchio in the Disney movie. And that is only one of the changes, some of the scenes in the original are really heavy. I think the darker one is the Cat and the Fox hanging Pinocchio after stealing his money, and waiting for him to suffocate (he plays dead to escape, as puppets don't need to breath). So yeah, hardcore teachings of the 1800. If someone is interested, a new Pinocchio movie by Matteo Garrone came out in 2019 (it was Oscar nominated for best costumes in 2021) and it's really faithful to the original story. Btw, I really enjoy watching your reactions! Keep up the good work!! :) (Sorry for the italiansplaining ahah)

I completely forgot about the underwater scene and Pinocchio being face down in the water. Now I want to forget it again

I love the classic animation in older Disney films like this, and in Bambi and Alice and wonderland. So nostalgic for some reason.

i love how this movie lets the villians get away with no real repercussions oddly making the morale even better

This movies intro theme made me tear up. That song is so pure, millions upon millions of memories, fond memories.🥺

"This cannot be a G rated Disney movie" This film actually pre-dates the film ratings system. The MPAA didn't create the ratings system until 1968, 28 years after this film came out. Some films that were made before the ratings system was a thing have been retroactively rated, although many have not and remain unrated. While I'm not certain, it's most likely that any films that were rated retroactively were rated G; because if they weren't suitable for general audiences they would never have seen the light of day under the Motion Picture Production Code which the ratings system replaced and was just an unambiguous list of things that weren't allowed to be in movies.

Also, serious shoutout to Wolfgang Reitherman, the one of Walt's Nine Old Men who animated Monstro. Like, WOW, he really sold the scale and terror of that thing!!!

I always use to imagine my father being like Gepetto. With the glasses, blue eyes and white mustache like my father had. I finally met him after I turned 18 and grew out of the foster care system and was sadly disappointed to find he was nothing like I imagined. Everytime I see Gepetto I have a sense of sadness come over me and feel silly thinking my father would be anything like this adorable man. If he was, he would have been a proper father and looked after my siblings and I.

The coachman always freaked me out as a kid who else 🤚🏾

I love how you’re just as fascinated and invested in everything happening in the movie as a kid would be. I never noticed it when I was little but now it makes me chuckle when Pinocchio says “Lampwick says a guy only lives once!” He just sounds so cute and innocent when he says that.

I love Figaro! I actually named my cat after this kitten! This movie is so good. Classic Disney is so timeless

1:17 Peter Pan is right next to that. Pinocchio- 1940 Alice In Wonderland- 1951 Peter Pan- 1953

I'm gonna recommend Dumbo and Bambi to you. Dumbo was 1941 and Bambi was 1942, those were straight after Pinocchio

I love this movie when I was a kid. The song "When You Wish Upon a Star" and the score music won at the 13th Academy Awards

*Puppet in animated Pinocchio:* adorable bean. 😊 *Puppet in live action Pinocchio:* get away from me, spawn of Annabelle!!!

The tune “When you Wish upon a Star” basically became the theme song for Disney.

Ah man this is my all-time favorite of the golden age Disney films. When I was 2-3 years old I would watch this 5 times every day on Laser Disc. I used to call him Shosho because I didnt know how to pronounce it haha. Also Monstro is still terrifying, I love how his roar sounded like a V8 engine revving. The sound design is amazing, and so is the detail on the water animation. It's absolutely mindblowing how all the froth on the seawater is handpainted. How all the animators rotoscoped that, man I couldn't even imagine.

The donkey scene totally freaked me out when I was a little kid.

The animation in this movie is amazing for 1940

Hey, now you might recognise the "when you wish upon a star" song at the beginning of every Disney logo intro

I named my cat Figaro because this is my favorite Disney film. I waited all my life to get a cat once I finished University (though I had many growing up in our family) and named him Figaro based off of the cat in this film, who's named Figaro. And the best part is, my Figaro (unlike my previous cats) literally acts like Figaro in this film.

I miss this kind of Disney. The music, sound effects, the art style! just everything lol

I always find it funny how everyone knows _Pinocchio_ for being that movie where the puppet's nose grows long when he lies, when that literally only happens in one scene. (Granted, I don't know how often it happens in the book.) It would be like if _Castlevania_ became famous for being "that game where you moonwalk on the stairs".

4:48 I was watching this with church friends for an event and us grown ups were shocked at there being a bare butt being spanked, even if it's carved. We all screamed a little!

The fact that a couple of bipedal, talking, human-sized animals are blown away by a living puppet never ceases to amaze me.

Your reactions make me view all the movies in a different light, and I wanna watch them all again xD Thanks for another beautiful video!

Still the greatest Disney animated film of all time, and it was only their SECOND attempt.

Pinocchio is my comfort movie, scary scenes and all.

"I did not expect him to look like that." Well, his name is Monstro and why do you think everyone kept running away at the mention of his name?

Your reactions are so real. It's so refreshing to see someone who really feels things so deeply.

I'm I hearing this right? or... (14:25) I like how Nick says "ha, I thought he was going take him in his car like right from there" I think Pinocchio was based on a story from the 17th & 18th century (I think there were cars back in the 1880s and 1890s. But only rich people had them, and in WW1 - WW2, yea,I think so, there were other vehicles. I don't think cars were made yet

The donkey scene still haunts me, lmao.

This movie was so good but definitely traumatizing as a kid 😂😂

Pinocchio was the second film Disney ever made, so every splash of water, EVERYTHING was hand painted

Oh, I highly recomend you "Song of the Sea", that's an amazing movie!

The whole of the original story (and the heart of this version) was a warning to the youth of the consequences of acting a fool. Also of the rewards of heeding wisdom.

Fun Fact: Did you know that the intro song is the same song that plays during the classical Disney intro where the shooting star goes over the castle? Also, loving this review!

This movie terrified me as a child and I still won't watch it as an adult, even watching you watch it reminded me of those horrible feelings. One good thing about it is it definitely cemented "stranger danger" for me as a young child, there was no way I was going to believe anything a stranger told me after watching what happened to Pinocchio!

This film is responsible for my fear of whales

What I remember the most is the song honestly. When you wish upon a star was my bedtime lullaby

Nick just a thought. Maybe it could be cool to have like a recap at the end of each month with everything u watched that month. Like u give them a ranking and tell us what u liked, what u didn’t like about a movie etc. Anyway keep up the good reactions.

Ahh the "be good kids and go to school or you'll turn into donkeys" movie

This film has one of my all-time favorite Disney quotes. 'What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?' And this was years before slaps like that were common place.

When I think of this movie and being a kid I think of watching it at my Nana and Papa’s house. Idk if it’s one of the few Disney movies they had but I remember watching it often there. My Nana passed away one year ago next week so I’m taking this as a sign ✨💗 thank you

The book is much darker. In it, Pinocchio kills the cricket with a hammer pretty much at the beginning. As a kid, we had big LP records of kids stories, and the Pinocchio one had the Disney picture on it, but was a reading of the original, so that was an ... interesting ... experience as a kid, to hear the narrator suddenly go "and he threw the hammer and BLAM! -" It went on to describe the cricket, all smashed against the wall even.

If you're watching older aimated movies and you haven't seen it then The Jungle Book is a must! Phenomenal film.

The part where the camera showed a book version of Alice in Wonderland, is foreshadowing

This movie is insane 🤣

You need to see An American Tail.

In the Disney movie Pinocchio, I love when the Dutch puppets bump and squish Pinocchio in the middle with their pushed-out butts and then they go off of him and turn around and pick up their dresses and move forward into him and squish him again!!! Lol

26:47 The Coachman Makes Pink Elephants On Parade Look Like A Harmless Drug Trip.

Our only Italian Disney movie🇮🇹🇮🇹

watching pleasure island's reality dawning on you was a pleasure to watch LOL

The conflict between Jiminy cricket and lampwick Always made me laugh and Jiminy cricket going down to the corner pocket made me laugh so hard😂😂😂

My grandmother has told me many times that this was the first movie she watched in the cinema back when it was released. She cried when Pinocchio was swallowed by the whale.

I never really liked this movie as a kid, even at a young age I kind of appreciated the style of it, but not to any great length. I never bothered to watch it again now as a young adult, so I'm super glad to have seen this reaction! Your appreciation for the movie has helped me see it in a new light

When You Wish Upon A Star is such a beautiful song that makes me choke up (trying my best to not shed tears in public or at work) everytime it's played or just thinking of it. Aside from being the national anthem of Disney, it's regarded as a Christmas song here in Sweden, as it reflects on the Star of Bethlehem and the song is played at the end of From All Of Us, To All Of You, which have been broadcasted on SVT (Sveriges Television, Sweden's Television) ever since the 60's, and the rest of Scandianavia.

A beautiful movie. Snow White's good, but IMO Pinocchio's the first true Disney classic. Walt Disney and co spent years creating it. It's amazing how much detail is going on in every single frame, too, an amazing feat considering everything is hand-drawn.

I remember watching this as a little girl and being haunted long after it ended by questions on what became of all the little boys who were turned into donkeys. In fact as a grown woman those questions still haunt me...

The hand drawn animation is so beautiful. 👌

It’s good to see reactions to older animated classics

My favorite movie 🇧🇷❤️ 29:30 Ugh! This scene gives me chills no matter how many times I watch this movie. We feel this boy's despair along with him. Him screaming "MAMAAAA" freezes to the soul!

I cried during the whole video. Imagine if I watch the movie again (I love it)...

Yes! The movie that gave Disney it’s signature melody! I going to have to go back and see when they started to play When You Wish Upon a Star before every movie.

Pinocchio is based off of a children's novel by Carlo Collodi that was published in 1883 and believe me, in the book, Pinocchio goes through a lot more crazy and disturbing stuff than he does in the movie.

It's strange that Pinocchio is not the first Disney movie, but "Wish Upon A Star" is the theme song for Disney as a company and is the song they play at the beginning of every Disney movie from now on.

It wasn't anything they drank or ate. _It was their behavior._ It was being allowed free rein to do any stupid, bad thing they wanted, for a long enough time, that turned them into donkeys. Pinocchio escaped, presumably, because he never truly went all in. He still retained his essential innocence (and he also had Jimini to help him).

This movie has so many little touches that just make it superb. The charm in Geppetto’s voice when he sings Little Wooden Head, the design of the Blue Fairy, I love the fact that she’s never fully solid, you can see through her entire body, really adds to the supernatural and otherworldliness of her character. I also love Figaro, how annoyed he was getting with Pinocchio’s constant questions, and his joy and little backflip into Cleo’s bowl to give her a kiss… I think what stands out the most for me with this film, none of the villains are defeated or face karma. Sure, Stromboli lost his headliner, but he still had the rest of his puppets and money, Honest John and Gideon got paid, the Coachman probably ended up finding Lampwick and selling him along with the other donkeys… it could be argued that Monstro died when he crashed into the cliff, but I never got that impression.

Even as a child I wondered how the heck Cleo survived that whole thing....