Pinocchio! So, this is where I find you! How do you ever expect to be a real boy? Look at yourself. Smoking! Playing pool! Oww! You're comin' right home with me, this minute!
Directed by: Hamilton Luske Starring: Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Mel Blanc
Genre: Animation/Family/Fantasy/Musical
Running time: 88 minutes
My review:
I love Walt Disneys animated classics. But this is my favourite Disney film because it is a warm-hearted family story that everyone would enjoy. It is a good example of a father wanting to cling onto his child and to tell him what is right and wrong. I love all of the songs in this film. My favourite has to be Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee because it is really catchy and it is a bit like a rap. I love the characters. Jiminy Cricket rocks. I love the scene at the beginning inside Geppettos house when they are singing and that. It is so magical. Love the scene when Coachman was telling Honest John and Gideon about his plan for the boys. When he says they never come back. . .as boys! Coachman pulls the scariest face that I have ever seen in my life. It is scarier than Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs. He zooms in on the camera, widened eyes, pink face and smiling evilly. I am unsure about where this film is set but I think it is Italian. This film proves a point that we have a right to choose what power we choose to act on - good or evil. Also, what a person would do for his family. This is a film truly based on adventure and friendship. It is a shame there isnt a Pinocchio 2. I know that there are some other Pinocchio films but I am not interested in those because this is the only Pinocchio classic in my opinion. Disneys second cartoon feature film is a rum old mixture of the excellent and the awful. The story itself has the harsh morality and cruelty of Victorian childrens literature, but Disney orchestrates his queasy material with some stunning animation of a monster whale wile trashing about and much delightful background detail (the candle-holders and clocks in the toymakers shop). However, one also has to suffer the cavorting of a cute Goldfish called Cleo, and several appearances of an odious fairy. Pinocchio, in fact, probably shows Disneys virtues and vices more clearly than any other cartoon. This film makes me feel really good. Whenever I have a nerving day the night before I watch this film to calm me down and cheer me up. It really brightens me up.
A Children/Family film from the early days of Disney and co. It can be enjoyed by both children and adults over and over again. The colors are splendid and the film is a timeless classic that many people have come to love including me. It can be a little frightening for little children but it is magical.
Of course, Disney cuts the story down to fit a 1h 30m time slot but still performs a great film either way. I wander what ALexander looked like before he was turned into a donkey.
It's a great story, but I've always been a little wigged by 1) the bad boys turning into donkeys and 2) Monstro. Even now, at 22, I still find those characters creepy, but other than that, "Pinnochio" is a cute movie.
A true animated masterpiece! one of the all time best movies and best animated features ever. Loved this since i was a kid in the 80's! this movie will live in my heart forever.
Walt Disney's second animated feature, PINOCCHIO, following up on the enormously successful SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, is also hailed as one of the studio's all-time greatest. This enchanting story of a wooden puppet who wishes to become a real boy is animated with breathtaking clarity and imagination; the opening shot, in particular, which uses an old-fashioned multiplane camera for a "realistic" effect is a marvel of animation. The characters, from the kindly woodcarver Geppetto to the smarmy, treacherous Honest John, and ultimately Pinocchio himself, are all fully realized and fleshed out, with just the right amount of emotion, yet it's the charismatic Jiminy Cricket who really makes this film. Serving as both a narrator and an invaluable "conscience" to our wooden hero, his presence (and voice, as supplied by Cliff Edwards), carries the story as a whole. It has also been stated that PINOCCHIO is infamous for many terrifying moments--being turned into a donkey, caged by a greedy puppeteer, and chased by an enormous whale--but even fans will admit that Disney's most well remembered features featured similarly scary scenes. PINOCCHIO is a fine example of "classic" Disney at its most poignant, and is not to be missed.
1940? wow, this movie is old. lolo manny probably saw it in movie theaters. lol, i saw this movie about 7 times in a row. as in every time we went to los angeles. [:
After establishing himself with Snow White, Walt moved on to his many other animated projects, and the first to be finished was Pinocchio. This film is every bit as wonderful as Snow White, with great characters and animation, and again, Stunning background art.
This film showed again, that Walt was not afraid to put some pretty unsettling things in his films. With Snow White, We had the Queen demanding that the huntsman murder Snow White and to bring back her heart in a box, and the transformation sequence when she changes herself into an Old Crone to trick poor Snow White.
In Pinocchio, We have characters like Stromboli and The Coachman, both rather sinister characters, who take advantage of Pinocchio's ignorance of the ways of the world for their own gain. We have Pleasure Island, which frightened me when I was very small, and we have the gigantic whale Monstro, who is quite a dangerous beast that wants to devour our hero and his father.
Today, many parents would seek to shelter their children from such films, in a misguided attempt to protect them. But these films needed those moments in order to get the story across, without them the film would be rather flat and lifeless.
Of all of the Disney animated classics, I would say that Pinocchio has one of the best morals and stories. It teaches kids some very good and valuable life lessons. Along with that, it's a highly entertaining kids movie with unforgettable characters, and tremendous sequences! This would rank among my favorite Disney movies.
Disney was definitely included in the golden days of cinema. on later examination you discover that the acting in this movie is downright awful, but it's nonetheless a timeless story that's forever part of your childhood.
One of those strange cases in which an animated movie 70 years old impresses the viewer. Original, freaky, hilarious, everything you could possibly wish for in a movie.
saw as a child and if i ever get a hold of being a charge to a child or children yah ill pop this one in the original mind u not some updated crap and the emphasis is on the word crap
Disney's crowning achievement of animation? It's possible, but Fantasia gives it a lot of competition. It does have a very strong narrative, and one of the studios best leading characters in the naïve, stubborn, well-meaning but always troublesome wooden puppet. I blame this movie for my inability to lie, and for teaching me the dangers of smoking and drinking. Ok, so I might have been a tiny bit sarcastic there, but there's a really frightening parable in the film about what happens to naughty children. If you're a bad kid and tell lies, your nose will grow. If you're a bad kid and show no remorse for it, you'll get turned into a donkey and sold to the salt mines. No wonder I'm so repressed nowadays. I watched this constantly as a kid, probably because I saw so much of myself in Pinocchio at the time...but that's another story.
One of my favorites of the Disney cannon. You just fall in love with each character. As for the technical: the directors have a keen eye for different shots and doesn't let the viewer get bored.
this is one of Walt Disney's masterpieces. From "When you wish upon a star" to "An actor's life for me" this fantastic animation is riddled with great songs and talent. It's also beautiful to watch the transformation from puppet to a real child. Jiminy Cricket was also introduced here and what a great conscience he makes.
Such a twisted story when pondered about (Like all adulterated versions from Disney), "Pinocchio" includes one of the strongest father-son relationships in an animated motion-picture that .... well, the rest is just deus ex machina-esque with the fairy and what-not.
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