![]() ![]() The film is worth seeing, but “if I recommended it as fun for all the family, I’d expect my nose to sprout by another inch or two”. This Pinocchio is a bratty, rebellious “handful” and it means that when he finally succumbs to “filial love”, it’s genuinely touching. ![]() Pinocchio himself is voiced by the young British actor Gregory Mann, and is nothing like the “cherubic” puppet of the 1940 film. The “formidable” cast of voice actors includes Tilda Swinton as the “benign wood sprite” who awakens Pinocchio, and Ewan McGregor as the talking cricket. He has set it against the “glowering backdrop” of Mussolini-era Italy, and it works brilliantly. As you might expect of the director of Pan’s Labyrinth, his Pinocchio is low on sugary sentiment. ![]() Now he has finally produced this wonderfully dark stop-motion animation. Guillermo del Toro had apparently spent “his whole professional life” yearning to adapt Carlo Collodi’s famous tale for the screen, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail. ![]()
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