History YMMV / Pinocchio2022Disney

* QuestionableCasting: People thought Cynthia Erivo as the blue fairy did not sit well.

** One of the [[StageNames stage names]] Honest John considers for Pinocchio is "[[Creator/ChrisPine]]". The following year, Disney released their 100th anniversary movie, ''[[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Wish]]'', which served as an origin story for the wishing star as seen in Pinocchio and other movies in the Disney animated canon… ''and guess who voiced its main villain''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Bizarrely enough, ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' has a similar scene in which the characters escape the Sea Monster thanks to Spazzatura the monkey using his own tail as a propeller.

* VanillaProtagonist: One of the biggest criticisms towards the film is that Pinocchio seems to already have a conscious and can differentiate between right and wrong. He doesn't at first go along with Honest John and Gideon to Stromboli after hearing out Jiminy and actually goes to school where he gets kicked out for being a puppet, which easier places the blame on the world instead of on himself when he does agree to go with Stromboli. And when the Pleasure Island arc starts, he doesn't get conned by Honest John a second time, he is instead picked up by The Coachman and only goes along because of peer pressure from the other children. While on Pleasure Island, he doesn't join the other kids in making jackasses of themselves. He doesn't destroy stuff or even drinks root beer, meaning that he shouldn't be turning into a donkey even though he does in the movie. This heavily goes against the movie because of how closely it follows the animated original's story, which is that Pinocchio is supposed to make mistakes on his own accord and prove himself so he earns his transformation into a real boy by the end of the movie, which is probably why [[spoiler:it was left ambiguous as to if he even does by the end of this movie]].

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The Pleasure Island scenes, especially given the way it's been diluted. With smoking and drinking cut out, the behavior that dooms the children is simply going on rides, ingesting copious amounts of candy and root beer (which the film ''repeatedly'' identifies as root beer), and acting rowdy and destructive in places specifically designated for this. Hell, it's basically a slightly rougher Ride/WaltDisneyWorld, which even ''had'' a Pleasure Island of its own for several years![[note]]It was for adults, though.[[/note]]

* GratuitousSpecialEffects: Some viewers have questioned why Figaro was portrayed through CGI as the movie could have simply had a real cat acting for the role.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A point of minor contention with the original film was that the four actual villains of the story (i.e., Coachman, Stromboli, Honest John, and Gideon) get off unscathed (not counting Honest John's "mallet incident") while Lampwick, who is more of a brat and a bad influence then a villain, is subject to a FateWorseThanDeath. [[AdaptationalKarma While Stromboli is legally punished this time around]] (although for cruelty and mistreatment towards real people working for him) and not just losing his star and thus losing money in the process off-screen, Coachman, Honest John, and Gideon all remain KarmaHoudini, which is seen as a waste by many. This is especially questionable in the case of Coachman as, since the behaviour of the children on Pleasure Island has been [[{{Bowdlerise}} toned down]] considerably, he comes off as even more evil in this version. It's also worth noting that Honest John and Gideon would have been punished in the original, but it was cut for pacing reasons, and it wasn't restored in this version despite already being 17 minutes longer.

* InformedWrongness: As a result of the removal of alcohol, tobacco and brawling from Pleasure Island, the kids seem to be doing nothing more than hanging out at a theme park and being a little unruly. Certainly nothing that warrants a KarmicTransformation into a donkey and [[DisproportionateRetribution spending the rest of their lives being worked to death]].

** The waves and other water effects during sea scenes don't look very good, and it ends up looking worse when live-action actor Creator/TomHanks is poorly inserted in this animated environment: Geppetto's clothing doesn't get wet a lot of time when he touches the CGI water that barely reacts to him, and his hair isn't blown by the wind when Pinocchio pushes the raft at a very high speed. Even the intentionally synthetic-looking water in the [[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio del Toro film]] looks more convincing than the water in this film.

** The waves and other water effects during sea scenes don't look very good, and it ends up looking worse when live-action actor Creator/TomHanks is poorly inserted in this animated environment: Geppetto's clothing doesn't get wet a lot of time when he touches the CGI water that barely reacts to him, and his hair isn't blown by the wind when Pinocchio pushes the raft at a very high speed.

* AwardSnub: Creator/LorraineBracco's performance was a low point of what was already was a disappointing retelling of the original Disney film to many people and thus her losing Worst Supporting Actress to Creator/AdriaArjona in ''Film/Morbius2022''—especially when the latter wasn't really that bad—seemed wrong.

* WTHCastingAgency: Some viewers have questioned why Figaro was portrayed through CGI as the movie could have simply had a real cat acting for the role.

* FandomRivalry: It didn't take long for there to be a rivalry between those who were looking forward to this film and those looking forward to ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', given they are both retellings of ''Pinocchio'' releasing in the same year, with very different approaches to the source material. Some Del Toro fans went as far as to accuse Disney of sabotaging his version by releasing their own remake beforehand. [[spoiler:The fact that Del Toro's film will also have Pinocchio giving Gepetto another shot at parenthood after losing his real son (and it should be noted this was [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/guillermo-del-toro-pinocchio-first-look announced]] long before this remake's release) doesn't help at all.]]

** The decision to {{bowdlerise}} the Pleasure Island scenes to remove any references to smoking and alcohol was criticized by viewers, since it removes the anti-smoking and anti-drinking message of the original movie and makes the kids' UnintentionallySympathetic since it's less "juvenile delinquency" and more "typical child behavior".