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How's this for "brave, truthful, and unselfish"?
- The scene where all of Gepetto's clocks go off. It's just a frickin' cool way to tell time.
- Mixed with Nightmare Fuel. When Pinocchio starts seeing Lampwick transform slowly into a donkey, he silently but correctly deduces that the drinks and cigars must have been laced with a substance that turns kids into donkeys and immediately throws them aside. He has enough sense to know what's wrong.
- The Monstro chase is a mix of this and Nightmare Fuel.
- Pinocchio's escape plan from Monstro: building a fire that causes Monstro to sneeze himself, Gepetto, Figaro and Cleo outside.
- Pinocchio risking his life to save his father.
- The scene where Pinocchio and Jiminy trek through the ocean to find Gepetto.
- Awesome Art:
- The animation! There's a reason this is considered one of Walt Disney's better works. Monstro's animation is considered one of, if not the greatest piece of animation ever created, a true feat considering the film's already overall godlike animation. If anything, just look at the picture above. At a glance, would you say it's an animation frame, or a painting? Every single frame is detailed like that.
- The backgrounds are all masterful works of illustration and layout in it of themselves. Every single one of them is overflowing with detail and texture, from the opening shot of the town square to the knick-knacks on Geppetto's bedside table.
- Awesome Music: The whole soundtrack can count, but special mention goes to "When You Wish Upon a Star
". That one song was so good, it became Disney's de facto theme song. The song and score both won Oscars. - From the video game adaptation: as easy as the fight was and even though it wasn't a part of the film, kicking the Coachman to his death off a very high cliff is, without a doubt, one of the most awesome things to do in this version of the story. The SNES version gets bonus points for him actually crying out in pain every time he gets hit, but just being able to give the absolute bastard what he had coming to him after turning countless children into donkeys and causing so much hurt and grief is unimaginably satisfying.
- Even better, the donkey who shows up to kick the Coachman in the leg when he's right on the edge of the cliff, thus setting him up for the aforementioned deathblow? It's Lampwick. Even if he couldn't escape Pleasure Island himself, he was not only able to prove himself a real friend here by coming to Pinocchio's aid, but by proxy take revenge on the monster who kidnapped and transformed him and all the other boys.
- After being released from Stromboli's birdcage, Pinocchio vows to go to school from now on instead of becoming an actor. Granted, it doesn't last long and Honest John and Gideon lead him astray again, but still it was good to see Pinocchio determined to do the right thing if he wants to become a real boy.
