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VIDEO RELEASE
Jul 15, 2003 (VHS)
Jul 15, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $3,627,416
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CONSENSUS
Torturous. Avoid it like the plague.
CAST & CREW
Roberto Benigni, Carlo Guiffre, Nicoletta Braschi
Directed by Roberto Benigni
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SYNOPSIS
Roberto Benigni (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) brings Carlo Collodi's classic children's story to glorious life in this big budget live-action adaptation. more...
MPAA RATING
G
RUNTIME
80 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 25, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Miramax Films
GENRE
Childrens, Comedies, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Live Action, Children's Stories, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Pinocchio Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking: joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Something must have been lost in the translation."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"...a complete shambles of a movie so sloppy, so uneven, so damn unpleasant that I can’t believe any viewer, young or old, would have a good time here."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"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."
-- Pete Croatto, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying."
-- Dan Fienberg, L.A. WEEKLY
"The film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's production design."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"I can easily imagine Benigni's Pinocchio becoming a Christmas perennial. Coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
"Even with its $50-million US budget, Pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
"The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed."
-- Shirley Klass, FANTASTICA DAILY
"Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"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?"
-- Frank Ochieng, THEWORLDJOURNAL.COM
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"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."
-- Ryan Cracknell, MOVIE VIEW
"Once the 50 year old Benigni appears as the title character, we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"The art direction is often exquisite, and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design, leaving one to hope that the eventual DVD release will offer subtitles and the original Italian-language soundtrack."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"It's a frightful vanity film that, no doubt, pays off what debt Miramax felt they owed to Benigni."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"Utterly lacking in charm, wit and invention, Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Absolutely (and unintentionally) terrifying."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"With Danilo Donati's witty designs and Dante Spinotti's luscious cinematography, this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only Benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"No matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus, accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a Michael Jackson sort of way."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Seriously, rent the Disney version."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"The so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing (featuring the voices of Glenn Close, Regis Philbin and Breckin Meyer) brings back memories of cheesy old Godzilla flicks."
-- Erich Scholz, CITYSEARCH
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ROTTEN 0%
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"Would Benigni's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster?"
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?"
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"In the spirit of the season, I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"I can't say this enough: This movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"The idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough. The reality of the new live-action Pinocchio he directed, cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"While Benigni (who stars and co-wrote) seems to be having a wonderful time, he might be alone in that."
-- Marilyn Moss, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"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."
-- Mark Peranson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Benigni's Pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted, its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow."
-- Jennie Punter, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"At times, the movie looks genuinely pretty. Your nightmares, on the other hand, will be anything but. Not even Felinni would know what to make of this Italian freakshow."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
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