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05/02/09
Pinocchio (2002)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:0
Rotten:53
Average Rating:2.4/10
Consensus: Roberto Benigni misfires wildly with this adaptation of Pinocchio, and the result is an unfunny, poorly-made, creepy vanity project.
Runtime: 80 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Roberto Benigni (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) brings Carlo Collodi's classic children's story to life in this big budget live-action adaptation. Gepetto (Carlo Guiffre), a humble toy maker, fashions a... [More]
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Carlo Guiffre, Nicoletta Braschi, Breckin Meyer
Director: Roberto Benigni
Reviews for Pinocchio
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03/10/07
The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.
01/05/07
Head-slapping, what-the-f*ck-is-this-for-real? trippiness.
09/15/05
No review available.
08/11/05
Like Robin Williams on speed, [Roberto Benigni] darts about the screen showing less restraint than a shark in blood-stained water.
08/01/03
Better this log-headed Pinocchio had been burned at the stake.
07/15/03
Every good actor needs to do his or her own Hamlet. For Benigni it wasn't Shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but Pinocchio. It might as well have been Problem Child IV.
04/24/03
This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy.
02/26/03
What's most incredible is not that Benigni thought that he could pull off a believable wooden puppet who wants to be a boy, nor thet he could turn such a charming story into such a horrifically scary tale, but that the people of Italy love this movie so m
02/21/03
This overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary. Hmmm…might I suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener?
02/03/03
Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice.
01/16/03
The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed.
01/10/03
Seriously, rent the Disney version.
01/09/03
Adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like Pinocchio. As for children, they won't enjoy the movie at all.
01/08/03
It's a frightful vanity film that, no doubt, pays off what debt Miramax felt they owed to Benigni.
01/07/03
If you saw Benigni's Pinocchio at a public park, you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police.
01/07/03
Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly.
01/06/03
What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?
01/03/03
What remains is a variant of the nincompoop Benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible Sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of Road Trip.
01/03/03
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