The greatest movie ever made..!

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

nice. but not convincing. beautiful. but not enough. amusing. only for few sequences. touching. for good intentions. its sin - each viewer has his image of Pinocchio. and this image is very and deep different by Benigni work. his ambition to create the Collodi legendary character is far to be inspired. it is silly and too strange. because, unfortunately, it is not a joke but a movie , not a parody but adaptation of a great book. sure, poor Benigni is innocent. but his innocence, his desire to do a good work remains a failure. not for acting but for mixture between costumes, delicate images and his old humor recipes. he is saboteur of his labor. explanation - no measure of ingredients and the sparkles of ridiculous. but it is an exercise. not catastrophic. only very far by expectations.

Now, one word of advice: watch the English-subtitled version, NOT the English-dubbed version. I had no option but to watch the dub, and it lacked, well, everything. Then, later, I had the luxury to watch the subtitles. Still lacked quite a lot, but much better than the dub.For my review, now. The movie didn't have much substance to it. Honestly, I love the story of Pinocchio, but the movie turned it into a bland, empty form. There was no good acting, nothing that really stood out. I never really laughed at anything, or had a heartfelt feeling towards anything. To me, it was just about 2 hours of people talking. And nothing happened that made too much sense. They changed the story so much it took everything away. Even a fantasy like Pinocchio was so unrealistic, beyond the point of belief. I didn't feel there was much moral, as the boy says he's learned his lesson, but continues to lie and lie and lie. Too many things just kept happening. There wasn't just a basic storyline like: Event 1, 2, 3 (maybe even 4), and a resolution. It was more like Event 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. The characters just change randomly, also. You don't know whether to like them or hate them. The whole time, I was thinking "I love how sweet Pinocchio is, oh wait, he lied. He betrayed her. But he realized his mistake! Good boy! Oh no! He ran off on a promise!" And so on. All the movie lived off of was slapstick humor, drastic character change, and unnecessary repetition of events.I hope I won't have to watch this horrendous movie ever again.

Most of the public did not like the "Pinocchio" by Roberto Benigni is perfectly understandable: the new paradigm are the special effects film. The bulk of people love the movies where a machine, a car, a robot... are the protagonists. They left in second to put the feelings in the first instance to objects. It is the reason why the majority is willing to give, instead of becoming loving, being. But there are still some weirdos that we are recognizing the value of the simple, natural, the spiritual. And these are the ones we loved a movie like "Pinocchio," a film where tenderness is the protagonist and where actors sweeten your soul to deliver true feelings, and a message of overcoming the millions of children who roam the world without encouragement or recognition.Roberto Benigni, the great master of "Life is beautiful", wanted to be faithful to the original story that his compatriot, Carlo Collodi, published in installments in an Italian newspaper between 1882 and 1883, and as he makes his open denunciation of vice and laziness, while extolling faith, patience and understanding with a beautiful fairy (surrogate) strives to save the boy from perdition. Benigni's Pinocchio is representing charming, mischievous, funny and he welcomes without objection that the original was a child. This is a big boy, and beside the point, because many of those who are still missing. Whoever can do without the extravagances for effect, enjoy the best with this tender film. Benigni knows hearts. That no one can deny.

this is a wonderful film but to feel that way maybe it helps to be Italian. the style is pure bernigni and typically Italian. i don't think this can translate very well for waspy Americans - only because of style. but for italians and especially those with naughty boys it is charming and highly recommended. i feel this film is closer to the real character of pinocchio rather than the Disney version. if you do not speak Italian or understand the culture - you are missing something too important to enjoy it fully. everything important has been said. but the guidelines for comment require ten lines. so, the costumes are magic. the actors are expressive. very entertaining for italians with children.