With all the rave reviews, and as a huge fan of animated films, I was really surprised this one fell flat for me!
I love the idea of playing up Pinocchio as a gingerbread man-esque, thumbing-his-nose-at-authority little shit, but in practice I found his screen presence obnoxious and borderline unwatchable. The film really tries to lean into the emotional relationship between Geppetto and Pinocchio, but hitting the classic story beats means that almost all of their emotional "development" happens while…
