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It’s expected that when famed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro takes on pinocchio<\/em> it will be a darker interpretation of the story.<\/p>\n

But his stop-motion film (now streaming on Netflix) pushes the imaginative, creative and honest storytelling that can be told from an adventure largely associated with the 1940 Disney animated children’s classic.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to make it for kids,” del Toro said during a screening in Toronto on Sunday. “I think animation is not a f-cking genre for kids, it’s a medium that can explore beauty and sadness and tragedy.”<\/p>\n

“Those movies, [they’re necessary] for the economical sustainment of the of the medium, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying down with them. No, variety.”<\/p>\n

Del Toro called classically children-focused animated films, with a similar structure, looks and feel, “babysitting” movies.<\/p>\n

“They turn them on and leave the kids unsupervised because they have been homogenized and pasteurized, and they’re good for the parents,” del Toro said.<\/p>\n

“If you sanitize the world for the kids, you’re destroying them… If you don’t have the conversations, and you’re going have a conversation about life and death whether Peanut the f-cking hamster dies or you see this movie, so have it already… The kids are going to handle it and the art form needs it.”<\/p>\n

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