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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2001

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…

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By Alan Morrison (64) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jan 2000

Not up there with the very top echelon of Disney classics, but Pinocchio will still work its magic on younger viewers…

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By Cindy White (28) for IGN (1,013) on 17 Jan 1993

Strip away the rich scenery, catchy tunes and now familiar, beloved characters and Pinocchio amounts to little more than a series of awkwardly…

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By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Jan 1986

Pinocchio redeemed Disney from the parlor trickery of Snow White and suggested animated features could indeed dance without strings…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 May 1982

The movie is genuinely exciting and romantic, great to look at, and timeless…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 31 Jul 1979

Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying…

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By Kate Cameron (41) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 09 May 1979

Walt Disney has waved his magic wand over Collodi's world-famous fairy story, Pinocchio, and presto…

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By David Rooney (943) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jul 1974

The spirit of the late Federico Fellini -- with whom Benigni talked of doing the project together -- surfaces repeatedly…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 03 May 1969

There's no getting past the shockingly poorly dubbed voice work of the English speaking cast; Meyer's voice is particularly shrill and grating…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Jan 1969

Benigni's Pinocchio is meant to be adorable, but he comes off as less an enchanted puppet than as a harmlessly deranged middle-aged man prancing…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Apr 1968

Big, opulent and frequently wretched, Pinocchio is so bad that its American distributor, Miramax, opened it on Christmas Day with scant advertising…

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By Mark Peranson (16) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Dec 1966

This faithful, humorless, altogether insufferable (and, by all accounts, hastily dubbed) version of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairytale about the…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Oct 1964

By film's end I was fantasizing that Peter Stormare would drop by with his Fargo wood-chipper in tow, but it was not to be. Appalling…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 Jun 1962

The most bizarre cinematic experience of 2002…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 30 Aug 1960

Perhaps the most perfect of the great Disney animated features-the most expressively animated, the least pretentious, the best balanced between…

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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 Aug 1959

Loud, crass and full of slapstick humor that the Three Stooges would be ashamed of. And it is almost completely lacking in charm and nuance…

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By Jennie Punter (195) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 May 1956

Benigni as a Pinocchio with 5-o'clock shadow and tufts of arm hair poking out from under the sleeves of his puppet costume, it borders on creepy…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Feb 1941

The only way his (Benigni's) show-off performance could have a prayer of working would be if the film were released as a silent…

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