Pinocchio (1940)

Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

Its one thing to have a wooden puppet suddenly become alive, but another entirely for Guipetto to expect him to go to school and actually learn something. And he decided this just hours after Pinocchio became alive! He then sends the poor puppet off to school ALONE!! This type of mentality belongs in cartoons where nothing has to make sense –  not in feature films. It proofs this is exclusively aimed at a very young demographic who wouldn’t bother questioning these silly actions.

I don’t remember the classic story of Pinocchio being THIS stupid. Nothing makes sense. And what’s with kids smoking cigars and drinking beer? Why would they show this in a film aimed at kids? Ok, so I hated this film. I hated every silly minute of this film. The film redeemed itself during the thrilling, action-packed climax, but only a little bit. I still hated this film.