Today is the day! I’ve been waiting for this movie to be released! This movie is one of my highlights of this year ever since I saw it’s trailer sometime this year! I talked about this movie in my recap of Netflix’s “Tuddum” and “GeekedWeek”.
This movie was another highly anticipated one for me.
This movie starrs Ewan McGregor, Burn Gorman (“The Outfit”), Finn Wolfhard (Netflix’s “Stranger Things”), Cate Blanchett (“TAR”), Tilda Swinton.
This animated Netflix movie was directed and written by thee Guillermo del Toro!
This Netflix movie was released on December 9th 2022! It was rated PG-13 for dark thematic material, violence, grief, profanity and rude humor.
This Netflix movie debuted at the “Toronto International Film Festival”, “London Film Festival”.
This Netflix movie is an Animated Adventure/Drama/Family/Fantasy/Musical.
Onto the premise: A father’s wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.
He did it again! What a beautiful yet sad look of grief, learning and being a good person made out of wood and all made by stop-motion all made by hand and actual wooden figures.
In case you were wondering what was missing from an adaptation of Pinocchio: A) a showstopper Ewan McGregor musical number that hilariously keeps getting interrupted until the end. B) the word ‘Burden’ made existential and harrowing for a child of wood. C) an even more gnarly designed sea beast.
G- del Toro’s voice and mind and vision is very potent and daring; that of creating a story of Disobedience in the face of the Big Paternal thing of a Fascistic leaders and so called fathers, and that in a fairy tale!
GDT’s version of Pinocchio is a wonderful movie, which deals with parental grief, why Gepetto creates Pinocchio is a prologue that makes this version as much about him as the title character and what he has to learn.
It’s loaded with what we’ve come to love from Del Toro and his collaborators and I hope it reaches families all over the world.
Overall I really enjoyed this movie but I have to say this, this movie is NOT meant to have the light-hearted happy-go-lucky vibes of Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio movie or even the one with Tom Hanks, from a couple of months ago, therefore be extra cautious while watching it!
But this movie rather is a modernised take praising the wonders of childhood, faith and friendship are up against the all-consuming tale of fascism, deceptive show-business tactics; and the double-edged sword of Time (and Life) itself.
Pinocchio is a conceptually HEAVY film that doesn’t condescend on its younger audiences nor it’s older ones. It respects all the age groups equally and without compromising the story and fairytale-qualities of the Pinocchio story at its core. It’s like a hard-boiled folktale that knows when to be optimistic and when to be cautionary in equal measures….
After all the teasing and behind-the-scenes looks we got from Netflix and GD himself where so so so worth the wait! I’m very pleased with this movie and it is in my opinion, the best animated feature film, this year and one of Netflix’s best film offerings in years.
This movie made me laugh and cry most of the time. It was such an amazing movie and those teasers and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the making off by Netflix where so worth waiting for the release of this movie.
I really liked the Horror elements of this movie added by Guillermo Del Toro.
I loved the color-grading of this movie so much. The mix of darker colors and warmer tones was perfectly done!
I really liked the adult tone of this movie as well.
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