You won't be disappointed!

Sadly Over-hyped

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

In Pinocchio, Pinocchio(played by Roberto Beningi) is made by Geppetto but Pinocchio's curiousness leads him to problems that are later solved by the blue fairy, played by Nicoletta Braschi. Throughout the movie, Pinocchio encounters so many problems that makes the viewer wonder if he will ever become good. The plot is focused throughout the whole movie but some things don't make sense, just like the book.Nicoletta Braschi does a great job at portraying the blue fairy. Her voice emphasized her compassion and unconditional love for Pinocchio throughout the whole film. The fairies costume looks great but the ones that the cat and fox wear look weird and make them look awkward and then there voices get rather annoying after laughing the first time they are seen.The music played whenever the Fairy appears, makes the viewer seem calm and relieved that the fairy finally appeared to help Pinocchio. Pinocchio becomes quite annoying by the end of the film, due to him always seeing to become good. Benigni does a weird but good job at portraying a boy.Overall, the film does a great job at showing how Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio" would've looked like if it was made into a movie.

This movie is horrible. Horrible and creepy. Annoying acting by creepy actors. As everyone knows, Pinnochio is a puppet who wants to be a real boy. Unfortunately, the actor playing Pinnochio is probably mid-to-late 40's and it just makes for things to be awkward and weird. All the supposed kids are old too. I don't know, the movie has a bit of a pedophile vibe to it? Don't let your kids watch this, unless you want to give them nightmares. Besides, the movie just really sucks. I can't believe this movie was nominated for and/or won awards. This movie made me want to regurgitate my lunch. There's really not much else to say about this film. I can't think of anything else to say. I don't know why IMDb requires a ten sentence limit?!

Now, one word of advice: watch the English-subtitled version, NOT the English-dubbed version. I had no option but to watch the dub, and it lacked, well, everything. Then, later, I had the luxury to watch the subtitles. Still lacked quite a lot, but much better than the dub.For my review, now. The movie didn't have much substance to it. Honestly, I love the story of Pinocchio, but the movie turned it into a bland, empty form. There was no good acting, nothing that really stood out. I never really laughed at anything, or had a heartfelt feeling towards anything. To me, it was just about 2 hours of people talking. And nothing happened that made too much sense. They changed the story so much it took everything away. Even a fantasy like Pinocchio was so unrealistic, beyond the point of belief. I didn't feel there was much moral, as the boy says he's learned his lesson, but continues to lie and lie and lie. Too many things just kept happening. There wasn't just a basic storyline like: Event 1, 2, 3 (maybe even 4), and a resolution. It was more like Event 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. The characters just change randomly, also. You don't know whether to like them or hate them. The whole time, I was thinking "I love how sweet Pinocchio is, oh wait, he lied. He betrayed her. But he realized his mistake! Good boy! Oh no! He ran off on a promise!" And so on. All the movie lived off of was slapstick humor, drastic character change, and unnecessary repetition of events.I hope I won't have to watch this horrendous movie ever again.

Most of the public did not like the "Pinocchio" by Roberto Benigni is perfectly understandable: the new paradigm are the special effects film. The bulk of people love the movies where a machine, a car, a robot... are the protagonists. They left in second to put the feelings in the first instance to objects. It is the reason why the majority is willing to give, instead of becoming loving, being. But there are still some weirdos that we are recognizing the value of the simple, natural, the spiritual. And these are the ones we loved a movie like "Pinocchio," a film where tenderness is the protagonist and where actors sweeten your soul to deliver true feelings, and a message of overcoming the millions of children who roam the world without encouragement or recognition.Roberto Benigni, the great master of "Life is beautiful", wanted to be faithful to the original story that his compatriot, Carlo Collodi, published in installments in an Italian newspaper between 1882 and 1883, and as he makes his open denunciation of vice and laziness, while extolling faith, patience and understanding with a beautiful fairy (surrogate) strives to save the boy from perdition. Benigni's Pinocchio is representing charming, mischievous, funny and he welcomes without objection that the original was a child. This is a big boy, and beside the point, because many of those who are still missing. Whoever can do without the extravagances for effect, enjoy the best with this tender film. Benigni knows hearts. That no one can deny.