[FILM]
PINOCCHIO
“What do you mean, my acting is a bit wooden?”
★★ OUT NOW (DISNEY+) / CERT U / 105 MINS
DIRECTOR Robert Zemeckis
CAST Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cynthia Erivo, Luke Evans
PLOT It’s the olden days, and in old-timey Italy, old-timer Geppetto (Hanks) builds a small, wooden puppet named Pinocchio (Ainsworth). Soon agog at the outside world, Pinocchio is tempted by fun, games and all manner of naughtiness, striding out on his own — to the dismay of his broken-hearted father.
ONCE UPON A time, Walt Disney Pictures began producing so-called live-action remakes of their animated classics. Beauty And The Beast, The Lion King, The Jungle Book, Aladdin… on it goes, until we forget there was ever such a thing as hand-drawn animation. They’ve been so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.