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- 1940
- G
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
- 1940
- G
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
Summary A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.
- 1940
- G
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
- 1940
- G
- RKO Radio Pictures
- 1 h 28 m
Pinocchio
8.2
Summary A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
99
100% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
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0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
99
100% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The original Scared Straight!
For all its Jiminy Cricket optimism, Pinocchio is a potent illustration of how people can only improve because they’re so lousy to begin with.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 344 User Ratings
8.2
86% Positive
296 Ratings
296 Ratings
12% Mixed
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
2% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 344 User Ratings
8.2
86% Positive
296 Ratings
296 Ratings
12% Mixed
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
2% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Pinocchio is a substantial piece of entertainment for young and old. Both animation and photography are vastly improved over Walt Disney's first cartoon feature, Snow White. Animation is so smooth that cartoon figures carry impression of real persons and settings rather than drawings.
By Staff (Not Credited)
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It still is the best thing Mr. Disney has done and therefore the best cartoon ever made.
The movie is genuinely exciting and romantic, great to look at, and timeless.
Pinocchio redeemed Disney from the parlor trickery of Snow White and suggested animated features could indeed dance without strings.
Pinocchio, in fact, probably shows Disney's virtues and vices more clearly than any other cartoon.
By Staff (Not Credited)
FULL REVIEW
Uma bela animação, que nos ensina muito sobre ser honesto, não mentir, buscarmos um futuro melhor e diversas outras lições. A animação é lindíssima, e nem mesmo parece que foi feita há 80 anos. Mesmo com o passar do tempo, a obra não envelheceu mal, sendo totalmente reproduzível nos dias de hoje, sem muitos vestígios de preconceito ou racismo. Os personagens são interessante, mas não muito carismáticos. A identidade da disney quanto a sincronia com o som já estava lá, o que é muito interessante de se ver. A ost é linda e marcante, fora toda a influencia que esse filme proporcionou para as animações futuras.
Porém, com o passar do tempo, as animações começaram a apresentar um foco maior no desenvolvimento emocional das crianças. As lições ensinadas aqui são valiosas, mas muito vagas. As crianças de hoje são muito complexas e exigem algo a altura. O filme é ótimo, mas quanto a isso, acabou ficando para trás.
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Jiminy Cricket explains that he is going to tell a story of a wish coming true. His story begins in the Italian workshop of a woodworker named Geppetto. Jiminy watches as Geppetto finishes work on a wooden marionette whom he names Pinocchio. Before falling asleep, Geppetto makes a wish on a star that Pinocchio will be a real boy. During the night, a Blue Fairy visits the workshop and brings Pinocchio to life, although he still remains a puppet. She informs him that if he proves himself brave, truthful, and unselfish, he will become a real boy, and assigns Jiminy to be his conscience.
Geppetto discovers that his wish has come true, and is filled with joy. However, on his way to school, Pinocchio is led astray by Honest John the Fox and his companion, Gideon the Cat, who convinces him to join Stromboli's puppet show, despite Jiminy's objections. Pinocchio becomes Stromboli's star attraction as a marionette who can sing and dance without strings. However, when Pinocchio wants to go home for the night, Stromboli locks him in a birdcage. Jiminy arrives to see Pinocchio and is unable to free him. The Blue Fairy appears and asks Pinocchio why he was not at school. Jiminy urges Pinocchio to tell the truth, but instead, he starts telling lies, which causes his nose to grow longer and longer. Pinocchio vows to be good from now on, and the Blue Fairy returns his nose to its original form and sets him free while warning him that this will be the last time she can help him.
Meanwhile, across town, Honest John and Gideon meet a coachman who promises to pay them money if they can find naughty little boys for him to take to Pleasure Island. Encountering Pinocchio on his way home, they convince him that he needs to take a vacation there. On the way to Pleasure Island, he befriends Lampwick, a delinquent boy. Without rules or authority to enforce their activity, Pinocchio and the other boys soon engage in smoking, gambling, vandalism, and getting drunk, much to Jiminy's dismay. Later, while trying to get home, Jiminy discovers that the island hides a horrible curse: the boys brought to Pleasure Island transform into donkeys for their misbehavior and are sold to slave labor in the salt mine and circus. Jiminy runs back to warn Pinocchio, only to discover that Lampwick has transformed into a donkey; Pinocchio manages to escape the island, only with donkey ears and a tail.
Upon returning home, Pinocchio and Jiminy find the workshop vacant. They soon get a letter from the blue fairy as a dove, stating that Geppetto had ventured out to sea to save Pinocchio from Pleasure Island, but was swallowed by a giant whale named Monstro, and is now living in his belly. Determined to rescue his father, Pinocchio jumps into the sea accompanied by Jiminy. Pinocchio is soon swallowed by Monstro as well, where he is reunited with Geppetto. Pinocchio devises a scheme to make Monstro sneeze, giving them a chance to escape. The scheme works, but the enraged whale chases them and smashes their raft. Pinocchio pulls Geppetto to safety in a cave before Monstro crashes into it. Geppetto, Figaro, Cleo, and Jiminy are washed up safely on a beach, but Pinocchio is shown apparently lifeless in a rockpool.
Back home, an inconsolable Geppetto weeps over Pinocchio as Jiminy Cricket and the pets also mourn the loss. The Blue Fairy, however, decides that Pinocchio has proven himself brave, truthful, and selfless. To reward him, the Blue Fairy resurrects Pinocchio, reversing the Pleasure Island curse and turning him into a real boy. Pinocchio awakens and reveals that he is alive and a real human boy, much to everyone's joy. As everyone celebrates, Jiminy steps outside to thank the Fairy and is rewarded with a solid gold badge that certifies him as an official conscience.
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Production Company
- Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Walt Disney Productions
Release Date Feb 23, 1940
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating G
Tagline Disney's all-time family classic is back ...No strings attached! [1987 re-release Australia]
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Photoplay Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations