Purely Joyful Movie!

Boring

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is the third animated classic Disney film I watched this month. I am right about to tackle the Aladdin trilogy soon. And may even tack on the Lion King trilogy if I am not too burnt out on classic Disney animation by then. Anyhow, Pinocchio is an absolute gem. One of the heavyweights Disney built his empire on and an absolute masterpiece.

Pinocchio is such a masterpiece of enter¬tainment it seems churlish to start picking at the feast and making claims that some of the courses are more exciting to the film gour¬met than others. If you love every minute of Pinocchio with an equal passion (just as I love every minute of Snow White), I envy you.But as for me, stimulatingly colorful as I find the Monstro sequence, it is not an episode that I care to put through my projector five times a day. Once or twice a month is quite sufficient to whet my enthusiasm. The same goes for most of the early stuff with Geppetto too - though these are given added liveliness by dance and song. Even Pleasure Island starts to soften after a while (though familiarity will never dull the venom of The Coachman as animated by Vladimir Tytla and voiced with a Cockney accent by Charles Judels) and there have been days when I have felt - etched in such extraordinarily stark detail though the animation is - satiated by Stromboli.However, I can never get enough of Jiminy Cricket solo or J. Worthington Foulfellow paired with Gideon. (Figaro is a ceaseless source of joy too, though he is more difficult to isolate). My favorite sequence of course is the second. The rest of the film is full of wonder and enchantment, of marvelous technical effects and animation wizardry, of color and humor, of sly throwaways ("What does an actor need with a con¬science anyway?"), and sets of incredibly detailed imaginativeness, but they do not top Jack Kinney's astoundingly inventive episode which Walter Catlett brings so buoyantly to life.Kinney has constructed his whole sequence like a short cartoon. After a spectacular establishing shot of the whole town and some initial funny business with Pinocchio and Geppetto (which also cleverly provides us with needed background information), we are deftly introduced to the delightfully fruity Foulfellow and his comic companion. The action is brilliantly paced with episodes of fast and more furious slap¬stick interspersed with glib puns and such droll verbal humor as Honest John's vain attempt to spell Pinocchio. When John begins his famous song extolling the joys of the actor's life, Kinney's camera soars to the roof tops - a device that enables him to playfully contrast this birds' eye-view with the bizarre low angles of Jiminy Cricket. Rapid editing joined to a sophisticated, jaunty music score so further enhance these scenes they can be played over and over with no loss of expectation and enjoyment.All in all, Pinocchio is a treasure of moods and surprises, of quick-witted fun and even a little satire, of feline exasperation and crotchety humor ("I wonder what time it is?"), of the grotesquely amusing and the bizarrely droll, of silvery suspense and out-and-out terror. The wealth of detail in the craftsmanship and impeccable polish of the effects were never to be excelled and rarely equaled. With overwhelming justification, many critics consider Pinocchio not only Walt Disney's masterpiece but the high point of cinematic animation. I don't dispute the second proposition - and if I didn't love Snow White so mightily I would certainly agree to the first!Pinocchio represents Disney at his weirdest (the movie is most definitely not suitable for young children), but also at his most inventive.

Before writing my review I'll confess that I haven't seen any Disney film before Pinocchio and The Lion King. Though Lion King was much better than this, Pinocchio wasn't that down. I liked this film, film's depiction and the aim behind it. Pinocchio is that animation film that I had to see it in order to finish my passion of watching all good rated films on IMDb. And thus seeing fairly hood reviews of this I decided to give it a chance. And I guess it wasn't a dull choice. But nor did it make my passion of entertaining me fulfill. Coming to the story, it is as fantasy as other Disney movies. Disney movies are mostly consisting of fantasy themes and with a moralistic message. And this wasn't different. I liked the theme, message behind it and how the characters played their part as well. But still, I'll not say this was the best film by Disney. There was some kind of overload. Story was dragged a bit in the second half. It became slow and felt like I should stop watching it. Although characters ain't boring either and that led me to finish movie successfully. A tale where a Cricket's life is going to be changed by a single wish - a wish granted by other, for the other and through the other medium. And what follows next is fun to watch. Again, a Disney movie which seems for the minor age group of people that was a shocker, by letting the minds of older people attract as well. Story which can be related to this day in twenty first century too, is shown so delightfully that any person can have an urge to enjoy for one and a half hours. In all this is a one time watch for a Disney lover and may not want to miss it. P.S. Please keep your subconscious minds with you while watching this flick.

I think that this is one of the best ones for kids to watch. It teaches kids a lot. When Pinocchio's nose grows it teaches kids that lying is wrong. The part to where all the boys cause trouble and they turn into donkeys teaches kids that when they are bad they get consequences. I like the set of the movie and how it takes place in Italy. I like the song about letting your conscious be your mind. This whole movie teaches about your conscious and about the consequences of life. This is a movie that every kid should watch, it teaches them a lot. Jemeny Cricket is the big role model in this movie. He teaches Pinocchio to be good and to be honest. I recommend this movie to all families and kids.