Oh, something I just found out: Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick Mc Hale is credited as having worked on the screenplay.
It's been a while since I'd heard from him.
Even though the main character is a literally wooden boy, it feels too stiff and lifeless.
And they had to shoehorn in a token romance too? FFS.
Sure the original Disney animated flick took a lot of creative liberties with the original story too, but c'mon.
Edited by M84 on Jan 31st 2022 at 2:59:46 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedTo be clear to any thread newcomers: the film being discussed in the last few posts is not GDT's Pinocchio, but the more generic Pinocchio: A True Story.
To make matters more confusing there seems to be a recent horror movie (2018-2019ish) titled The True Story of Pinocchio that only circulated in indie circles (so, no wide-release and it is in fact very hard to find any material about the film's existence and there's a possibility it was never completed) that pitches Geppeto as a serial killer in modern day New York killing people and turning them into puppets in an attempt to make Pinocchio a real boy and a private detective has to stop him.
Pinocchio has been getting into some weird shit these past few years.
Edited by Gaon on Jan 30th 2022 at 11:29:32 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."...And I thought that Souls-like Pinocchio game was the weirdest Pinocchio thing to come out in recent memory.
Pinocchio is one of those properties that kind of gets headspaced as "that charming old Disney movie" by people who either haven't seen it at all or haven't watched it since they were kids, and then occasionally people rediscover that both the original story and the movie are really messed up. The movie to a lesser degree but goddamn it is full of really intense stuff.
Like, there was a blip of interest in, I believe, the mid-70s and another one in the late 80s. It doesn't really ever get enough traction to stay in the public consciousness beyond being "a Disney movie".
There are lots of disturbing details in the original story. Even the whimsical parts are a lot more graphic than the Disney version; for example, instead of just getting donkey ears, Pinocchio is turned completely into a donkey, but then a group of helpful little fish chew off his donkey flesh, making him become a wooden boy again. Also, the main characters are much bigger jerks - Pinocchio is a brat with little respect toward the people around him (until he goes through his Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot), Gepetto is a very temperamental man who is often harsh with Pinocchio. And yes, Pinocchio KILLS the Talking Cricket.
Here's a new teaser trailer for the film:
Bump.
It's only based on eight reviews, but we got a pretty good picture on how this movie is thanks to Rotten Tomatoes.
No surprise here. Of all the three Pinocchio movies released this year, this one is the GOAT!

Neither of these Pinocchio adaptations look bad, but if I want to watch a Pinocchio I'll just stick to the classic from Disney, or for Christmas time, the Rankin-Bass special.