‘Pinocchio’ movie review: A sweet, heartwarming live-action adaptation of the classic

If ever Gepetto, the woodcarver in Carlo Collodi’s 1883 classic, Adventures of PinocchioWere a Hollywood star, he would definitely be Tom Hanks. And in the live-action version of Disney’s 1940 animated classic, he’s the one who plays Gepetto.

The following in their fourth collaboration Forrest Gump (1994), Waste (2000), and polar express (2004), director Robert Zemeckis and Hanks make a lovely, heartwarming film. pinocchio Very close to the animated version in both look and sound. However, the ending has been changed.

Told from the point of view of Jiminy Cricket (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the film tells the story of Gepetto, who is lonely after losing his beloved wife and son. He makes a puppet out of pinewood and calls it Pinocchio. When Gepetto wishes for a star, the Blue Fairy (Cynthia Erivo) animates the puppet Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and promises him that he will become a real boy if he is good.

Jimini Cricket has been appointed as the temporary discretion of Pinocchio. Pinocchio’s path to becoming a boy is full of temptations and characters waiting to divert him from his goal. The cunning fox, the honest John (Keegan-Michael Key), the wicked puppeteer, Stromboli (Giuseppe Battiston), the coachman (Luke Evans) who wanders into Pleasure Island to simply turn the children into donkeys and sell them as slave labor, and Monstro, the giant sea monster, is one of the villains Pinocchio meets.

Lampwick (Levin Lloyd), Pinocchio’s boy he meets on his way to Pleasure Island, isn’t so bad as he is mischievous despite cheating in the pool. There are people who help Pinocchio as well, including a kind-hearted puppet, Fabiana (Kyenne Lamaya), and a seagull, Sophia (Lorraine Bracco).

There are songs from the original (‘ when you Wish Upon a Star, small wooden head, hi-diddle-d-d‘ And ‘ i have no strings‘) as well as new ones’ when he was here with me, Pinocchio, Pinocchio‘ (See Hanks sing!) i will always dance‘ And ‘ Coachman to Pleasure Island,

The animation is gorgeous and seamless. In addition to a few updates, which included several watches featuring sports themes from Disney movies, Gepetto’s Workshop, such as toy story And harmful, pinocchio Revel in a kind of seductive timelessness.

In the true tradition of a children’s adventure story, (we’re not talking about dystopic YA) things are never bad—even Monstro’s eyes are kind and blunt, round teeth. For a deeper look at a puppet who wants to cut his strings and become a real boy, we’ll have to wait for Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion animation version of him set in 1930s fascist Italy.

Pinocchio is currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar