History YMMV / GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio

** This is also not the first time where the Fox has been turned into a human with fox-like features. In fact, there was a [[Film/Pinocchio2019 Italian adaptation in 2019]] (which is TruerToText) where both Fox and the Cat were turned into humans with fox and cat-like features (and otherwise, they did exactly same things their book counterparts did). Bonus that Count Volpe actually very much resembles the Fox from that movie (though, it's unlikely it was intentional).

** This is also not the first time where the Fox has been turned into a human with fox-like features. In fact, there was a TruerToTheText [[Film/Pinocchio2019 Italian adaptation in 2019]] where both Fox and the Cat were turned into humans with fox and cat-like features (and otherwise, they did exactly same things their book counterparts did). Bonus that Count Volpe actually very much resembles the Fox from that movie (though, it's unlikely it was intentional).

* GeniusBonus: Sebastian Cricket keeps a portrait of the pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer by his desk. In a later scene, Count Volpe is listening to the finale of Music/RichardWagner's ''Tristan and Isolde'', which Wagner was partly inspired to write thanks to reading Schopenhauer. At the end of the film, Sebastian changes out the picture of Schopenhauer for a picture of Pinocchio, Geppetto and Spazzatura. This comes just after Sebastian affirms that life is a wonderful gift - a refutation of Schopenhauer's famously antinatalist views (that life is not a gift, but a horrible curse).

** the wood sprite's lower half looks like a serpent's tail and she is base on the seraph, the word used many times in the bible to denote a snake and even some despiction of the Seraph had them snake like.

** Count Volpe is an abusive but mostly humorous villain for most of the film until we see him abusing Spazzatura and threatening Pinocchio, saying he will control and exploit him for profit until he rots. And then comes his VillainousBreakdown, [[spoiler:whereupon he graduates to attempted murder and tries to immolate Pinocchio to make him "burn bright like a star." It's this act of depravity that almost immediately earns him a KarmicDeath afterward.]]

** Count Volpe is an abusive but mostly humorous villain for most of the film until his VillainousBreakdown, [[spoiler:whereupon he graduates to attempted murder and tries to immolate Pinocchio to make him "burn bright like a star." It's this act of depravity that almost immediately earns him a KarmicDeath afterward.]]

* {{Narm}}: CatharsisFactor though it may be, [[spoiler:the circumstances of the Podestà's death are so over-the-top (he's not just killed in the explosion, the Allied bomb drops ''directly'' on top of him)]] that it comes off as a bit silly in an otherwise dead-serious scene.

* UncertainAudience: While not as JustForFun/{{egregious}} as some other examples, a major criticism of the film is that as a darker retelling of the original with a lot of heavy adult themes, but at the same time it still maintains a number of juvenile elements and song numbers, which are a turn-off for older audiences.

** Candlewick, the son of the Podestà who abuses him. His nickname comes from his father calling him weak, while he desperately tries to make his father proud. His father sends him to a military training camp and demands he shoots his new friend and throws him into a trench. [[spoiler:And shortly after, he is likely killed in an explosion]].

* AwardSnub: When the film premiered, many pundits speculated that it could become the fourth animated film in history to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, given how loved Del Toro is within the industry, and how his previous film, ''Film/NightmareAlley2021'', had scored a nomination despite having mixed reviews. Those ambitions slowly faded as awards season went on, but it seemed likely to receive nominations for Best Score and Best Song. And after UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} nominated it for Production Design, that seemed to be on the table too. In the end, the film only received one nomination, for Best Animated Feature, which it won.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Sebastian J. Cricket is built up as a major character, complete with being the story's narrator, and yet he spends a very large portion of the film's runtime in the dogfish's stomach with Geppetto.

* UglyCute: Pinocchio himself. Geppetto built him while drunk, so he only has one ear, his proportions are extremely janky, he has nails sticking out of his back, and he is unpainted. This ties into the movie's themes - and Del Toro's general philosophy - that it's okay to be imperfect. It's also ironic how this interaction of Pinocchio is ''meant'' to be a crude and janky puppet yet manages to be more pleasing to the eye than some other depictions of Pinocchio that often fall into the UnintentionalUncannyValley.

* UglyCute: Pinocchio himself. Geppetto built him while drunk, so he only has one ear, his proportions are extremely janky, he has nails sticking out of his back, and he is unpainted. This ties into the movie's themes - and Del Toro's general philosophy - that it's okay to be imperfect.

* UncertainAudience: While not as {{Egregious}} as some other examples, a major criticism of the film is that as a darker retelling of the original with a lot of heavy adult themes, but at the same time it still maintains a number of juvenile elements and song numbers, which are a turn-off for older audiences.

* UncertainAudience: A main criticism of the film is that as a darker retelling of the original, it's not made for kids, but at the same time it still maintains a number of juvenile elements and song numbers, which are a turn-off for older audiences.

* FriendlyFandoms: There is major overlap between the fandoms of this film and ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. Not only do both films have similar themes (such as [[spoiler:the personification of Death having a major role, and the protagonist learning to appreciate his final life after being brought back from the dead multiple times]]), but ''The Last Wish'' even has one of the villains being upstaged by Pinocchio as part of his backstory, and features a parody of the Talking Cricket attempting to act as a conscience for him. Even when ''Pinocchio'' beat ''The Last Wish'' at the Oscars for Best Animated Feature, most fans of the latter weren't particularly upset by it, though one can that because ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', another contender for the award produced by Disney, was assumed by many to win due to the assumption that Disney "has the Academy in their pocket".

* FriendlyFandoms: There is major overlap between the fandoms of this film and ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. Not only do both films have similar themes (such as [[spoiler:the personification of Death having a major role, and the protagonist learning to appreciate his final life after being brought back from the dead multiple times]]), but ''The Last Wish'' even has one of the villains being upstaged by Pinocchio as part of his backstory, and features a parody of the Talking Cricket attempting to act as a conscience for him. Even when ''Pinocchio'' beat ''The Last Wish'' at the Oscars for Best Animated Feature, most fans of the latter weren't particularly upset by it.