Still, it’s an unnervingly threatening story behind all that singing. The live-action remake leaves out some of the more risqué (and some of the more racist) elements of the original, including Pinocchio smoking and drinking at a no-rules theme park called Pleasure Island. Hanks’ Geppetto gets the backstory we never knew we never needed, while the film hammers home Pinocchio’s core moral dilemma: What exactly is a “real boy”? With Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning and more mature approach to the puppet who comes to life released in the same year, Disney had little chance of making an impact with this one, despite how visually stunning some of the sequences are.ĭirector Robert Zemeckis pushes this Pinocchio even further toward levity than the 1940 Disney film, based on Carlo Collodi’s gruesome 1883 novel. While you’re recovering from that, let’s delve into one of the least beloved live-action remakes of a Disney film yet. In the actual words of Tom Hanks’ Geppetto, “Pinocchio! Pinocchio! Holy smokey-o!”
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