{"id":152679,"date":"2022-12-09T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-review-a-twisted-animated-epic\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:37:03","slug":"guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-review-a-twisted-animated-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-review-a-twisted-animated-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ review: a twisted animated epic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During \u201cGuillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio\u201d on Netflix, Disney’s 1940 version of the old tale doesn’t pop into mind much. The House of Mouse movie I kept thinking of was \u201cBambi.\u201d <\/p>\n
The \u201cShape of Water\u201d director, in his brilliant stop-motion animated movie co-directed by Mark Gustafson, harkens back to the good old days of tough-love family flicks with a lot of tears and huge emotional payoffs.<\/p>\n
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Running time: 117 minutes. Rated PG (dark thematic material, violence, peril, some rude humor and brief smoking.) On Netflix Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
At least Bambi’s poor mom wasn’t done in by a bomb in World War I. That’s how Geppetto (voiced by David Bradley) loses his 10-year-old son Carlo, when the small-town Italian church he’s standing in explodes. <\/p>\n
It’s a deeply sad and unexpected start, and with it our predispositions are blown up, too. We’re whisked into another of del Toro’s sinister worlds of magic, sleazy hucksters and hard-learned lessons.<\/p>\n
The grief-stricken father plants a pine tree at little Carlo’s grave and in his despair, becomes a drunk. That is until one night some years later when the woodcarver desperately fashions a boy-shaped puppet from its trunk. <\/p>\n
\u201cI’ll make Carlo again out of this cursed pine!\u201d he screams into the night. \u201cWhen You Wish Upon a Star,\u201d it is not. <\/p>\n