Film Review – Pinocchio (2022)

There’s been a lot of “Pinocchio” in recent years, with various live-action and animated productions trying various ways to capture the original magic of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel. For Disney, the material represents the company’s second foray into feature-length animation, with a 1940 adaptation gradually becoming a classic to fans and film scholars, offering a brighter take on the source material, keeping up with the Disney way. To help advance their work on live-action remakes of animated endeavors, the company turns to Robert Zemeckis to help bring “Pinocchio” back to life, with the co-writer/director tasked with reviving the general mood of the 1940 picture while sprucing it up for modern audiences, mixing actors with CGI creations, also changing around some of the storytelling choices and adding musical numbers. It’s not a radically different version of an already altered take on Collodi’s work, with Zemeckis in an unusually subdued mood as he assembles a perfectly entertaining viewing experience, but nothing more. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com