Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
by Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
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Actor: Charles Judels, Cliff Edwards, Don Brodie, Marion Darlington, Walter CatlettDirector: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, THX
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
DVD Review: 24/7???
Summary: 5 Stars
Can a 2 1/2 year old really love this movie as an adult would...???
I think my grandson does!!!
DVD Review: Pinocchio
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was purchased for my four grandchildren ages 9, 7, 5 and 2. The 9 and 7 year olds watched it continuously for five viewings and enjoyed every minute. The 5 and 2 year olds only watched it one viewing at a time, but were more than ready when it was time to see it again.
Having seen the movie when it was first brought out by Disney, I felt it was reproduced well so that younger generations can enjoy this truly clasical film.
DVD Review: A movie I once feared, but now love
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember getting this movie at age 4 (back when there were VHS tapes and when Nightmare Before Christmas was going to be in theaters) and watching it constantly. But the only two things I didn't like about it was the Coachman (who still scares me btw) and Monstro the whale (this started my phobia of whales).
Now in my early 20s, I decided to watch it to see if I've gotten over my fear. I had mixed feelings on getting a copy of this movie on dvd because of the Politically Correct Parents in the world might ruin it (no smoking, no drinking, no Jiminy Cricket saying his jack+++ line). But I heard from people saying that everything was kept the way it was (thank god).
I bought a copy of the movie and it was more beautiful than I remembered. As soon as you hear Jiminy sing When you wish upon a star, I felt I was 4 years old all over again. The art was magnificant and the storyline was wonderful.
Anyone wanting to show their child a classic Disney film, go for this. This classic film is much better than the newer stuff like the over-rated Madagascar, the very bad Space Chimps, or anything by Pixar (to me, CGI has no beauty in it, I call it the lazy way of animating). Trust me, this movie has no toilet humor.
Enjoy!
DVD Review: Like a Wagner opera; beautiful to the senses, insulting to the intelligence
Summary: 1 Stars
First up in my 4 part revisiting of some of those Disney classics, Pinocchio. Adapted, apparently by about 7 or 8 people (a part of the credit that boggled my mind), from the writing of Italian writer Carlo Collodi and directed by Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen Pinocchio is, without a single doubt, one of the most beautifully animated films of all time and is certainly numerous pegs above today's animation in any regards from the main action in the frame or the backgrounds (which are actually a bit more phenomenal than most of the main animation.) The one moment of note is the encounter with Monstro; a lot of people see this as truly frightening, akin to the creeping moments of Jaws, but I simply found it a spectacle to behold.
So, with that said, the animation is beyond brilliant....the story, however, is, unfortunately, bordering in some kind of disgusting.
It's no secret that Disney hated Communists and despised basically anyone who lived outside of American societal norms ( he actually refused to allow Hitchcock to film in Disney because Hitchcock had made "that disgusting movie Psycho") so, the fact that Pinocchio is a mouthpiece of the Mousey Fuhrer to spout out his morals and ethics isn't a shock.
Pinocchio is created by Geppetto, a lonely wood crafter (and possibly an alcoholic: look at those red cheeks and nose, there's no way he doesn't regularly hit the sauce: that and he goes out of his way to pet his fish; seriously? Petting a fish? Yikes, settle down Jack Daniels.) When he heads to sleep he notices a star and makes a wish that his newest creation could be a real boy.
In enters the Blue Fairy, a pillar in the argument that not only is Geppetto an alcoholic but also a homosexual, or some kind of man with such a degree of misogyny that he feels the only good women are for is bringing little kids, more particularly little boys, to life. She brings the wood boy to life, but only to a degree; he's still wood and in order to become a real boy, or to become a real human being, he has to listen to his conscience; not something Pinocchio himself forms, but something that's bestowed upon, in the form of Jimini, him by this grandiose woman.
Pinocchio must learn to resist temptation, this involves fighting the urge to not go to school in pursuit of other endeavors, smoking cigars in Pleasure Island and, this is one that caught me off guard and made me exclaim in its absurdity: playing pool (we all know how horrid this activity is.) In order to become a real boy, again a human being, he has to be able to differentiate between animalistic decadence, which would turn him into a donkey (an Jackass, GET IT?!) and the ability to hold back, to show some kinds of restraint.
He also must show courage (which involves literally tossing himself off of a cliff to save the alcoholic who made him) in the vein of selflessness; so, risk your life for the sake of others; great message, Walt, good stuff. That's what the world needs, more "pure" Christian garbage.
DVD Review: Best Disney Classic Animation Blu Ray So Far!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Picture and Sound, the extras are great too. A piece of history in the movie industry.
Description of Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
Disney's second full length movie after Snow White. Delightful, hand-drawn images.This Disney masterpiece from 1940 will hold up forever precisely because it doesn't restrain or temper the most elementalemotions and themes germane to its story. Based on the Collodi tale about a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy, Pinocchio is among the most magical, mythical, and frightening films to come from the studio in its long history. A number of scenes make permanent impressions on young minds (just ask Steven Spielberg, who quoted the film more than once in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), and the songs ("When You Wish upon a Star") can't be beat. --Tom Keogh
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