The live action directed by Robert Zemeckis loses its magic as it tries to approach the style of the cartoon of the 40s
After a series of live-action remakes of The beauty and the Beast The The Lion Kinga disney finally came to Pinocchio, available on your streaming service. Whether any of these films did much to improve the originals is debatable, and Pinocchio’s feat presents particular challenges. More urgent: what to say Pinocchio? Good boy, some wood. But if we’re honest here, he’s always been a failure.
Pinocchio scene, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto, available on Disney + Photo: Disney
Do you choose a young actor to play the puppet that once came to life? With some live artists (Tom Hanks, Cinzia Erivo) and some digitized characters, the director Robert Zemeckis used computer images to approximate Pinocchio (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) of the style and vocal tone of the 1940s cartoon. The effect is a strange fusion of fake and real that struggles to find the magic in between. Unfortunately, this Pinocchio is not a real boy.
It is also one of two fairytale adaptations premiered this fall. A stop motion version of Guillermo del Toro will arrive by December Netflix. The directors are both wizards and will certainly have radically different visions of the old Italian tale. Soon we will be able to compare them nose to nose.
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The best reason to see Pinocchio it is, of course, Hanks, who lends a touching melancholy to Geppetto. It’s a hallmark of the star’s performance, like another performance with a European accent, Presley manager Tom Parker in Elvis.
There are also moments that remind us of Zemeckis’ remarkable powers, such as when the Jiminy Cricket floats gracefully or the whale-like creature swallows Pinocchio. /AP
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