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Pinocchio (1940)

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Average rating: 73%
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3.5
from 729 members
 
Starring: Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub, Charles Judels, Walter Catlett, Evelyn Venable, Don Brodie, Frankie Darro
Director: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Studio: WALT DISNEY HOME VIDEO
Run time: 84 mins
Certificate: U
User collections: Superb Films of the 1940's, My Favourite Films, My all time favourite films.
Genres: Animated, Children
Languages: English
Released: 02/03/2009

Brief synopsis of Pinocchio

Walt Disney's second full-length animated feature is a timeless, breathtakingly beautiful classic. Based on an 1800s story by Carlo Collodi, it stars Jiminy Cricket (voiced by Cliff Edwards) as a vagabond insect who spends a rainy night at the shop of toymaker Geppetto. The Blue Fairy brings a marionette to life after Geppetto wishes on a star for a son, and Jiminy Cricket is appointed the new boy's conscience. He has a devil of a time keeping up as Pinocchio is willingly lured through various forms of temptation, the most frightening of which leads him to Pleasure Island, where he drinks, smokes, and is almost turned into a jackass. This sequence, as well as Pinocchio's brave rescue of Geppetto from the belly of a whale, ranks among the most memorable in the history of animation. With such songs as When You Wish Upon a Star, this is about as magical as cinema can get, a sublimely beautiful coming-of-age story for all to treasure.

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Time Out

Disney's second cartoon feature is a rum old mixture of the excellent and the awful. The story itself has the harsh... Read more on www.timeout.com

USA Today

"...Awesomely restored..." -- 4 out of 4 stars

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Rated - 5 starsTRULY MAGICAL!

A customer from NEWCASTLE , 23/06/2004

After the rave box office success that had went with ' Snow White And The Seven Dwarves' it was up to Walter'Walt'Disney and his studio to think up the next big classic. taken from Carlo Collodi's equally excellent book this is not as dark as it's book but hey it's Disney what do you expect? it's still the basic storyline: a lonely carpenter named Gepetto makes himself a wooden puppet which he names Pinocchio. Pinocchio isn't real but Gepetto wishes upon a star that Pinnochio becomes real and The Blue Fairy brings Pinocchio to life. The Blue Fairy is true old fashioned beauty of animation, she brings tears to my eyes with her kindness. other characters is the little Cricket named Jimminy Cricket. there is also Chleo the fish & Figaro the cat. other classic characters are Honest John the sly ' Renard' like fox and his nervous cat assitant{ i can't remember his name}. with classic places like Pleasure Island etc this movie has it all. Stromboli the puppet master scared the living daylights out of me as a kid, you have been warned!' must see movie!

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Rated - 5 starsEvergreen magic

KDP from Lancashire England , 13/12/2004

Every child should be urged to watch the Walt Disney cartoon feature films. They should be part of the education system.

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Rated - 5 starsFirst Rate.!!

A customer from Sheffield, England. , 04/06/2005

This film is a must see! a film for all children from 2yrs to 92yrs.

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Rated - 3 starsThe old ones are the best

Anna5 from Middlesex , 22/02/2005

My children, aged 4 and 6, keep begging to be able to watch the restored Pinocchio again, and I've yet to break it to them that I have, in fact, sent it back in its dinky envelope.

It is much funnier and more fascinating than I remember, the "good" guys all charmingly ineffectual and bumbling, the marvellously wicked characters, and the scenes in the interior of the whale, deliciously tense and frightening.

I found it refreshing and affectionate, especially the enchanting and now iconic scenes with the blue fairy, and my son can be heard singing along to "an actor's life for me".

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Rated - 3 starsThe old ones are the best

Anna5 from Middlesex , 22/02/2005

My children, aged 4 and 6, keep begging to be able to watch the restored Pinocchio again, and I've yet to break it to them that I have, in fact, sent it back in its dinky envelope.

It is much funnier and more fascinating than I remember, the "good" guys all charmingly ineffectual and bumbling, the marvellously wicked characters, and the scenes in the interior of the whale, deliciously tense and frightening.

I found it refreshing and affectionate, especially the enchanting and now iconic scenes with the blue fairy, and my son can be heard singing along to "an actor's life for me".

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Rated - 5 starsPinnochio

A customer from Glasgow, Scotland , 12/07/2004

One of the best animated cartoon's ever made. Hard to believe it was made in 1940.

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