{"id":140819,"date":"2022-10-17T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-debuts-to-glowing-reviews\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T05:07:32","slug":"pinocchio-by-guillermo-del-toro-gets-glowing-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/pinocchio-by-guillermo-del-toro-gets-glowing-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro Gets Glowing Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We have received the first reviews \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio,\u201dStop-motion animation is a great success. The film, co-directed by del Toro, Mark Gustafson, was 15 years in the making and features an all-star voice cast, including Ewan McGregor and Cate Blanchett as well as Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, and Cate Blanchett. However, overwhelming praise for the latest take on Carlo Collodi\u2019s classic tale centered on its visual and thematic approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Set in 1930s fascist Italy, \u201cPinocchio\u201d separates itself from the rest (including Robert Zemeckis\u2019 recent, disastrously received rendition) as a \u201cfamily movie\u201dThat \u201cdoes not shy away from dark themes of death and war,\u201dPer Insider<\/a>. Ayomikun Adekaiyero, its critic, wrote that the adaptation was “amazing”. \u201cjustifies its existence by modernizing the tale with beautiful stop-motion animation and a tear-jerking story.\u201dAdekaiyero, on the other hand, was \u201cdisappointed by the mediocrity of the musical elements of the movie,\u201dThey were also added to the list. \u201csecondary to the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wendy Ide Screen Daily<\/a> lauded the film\u2019s \u201centhralling emotional journey,\u201dPredicting that \u201cit should connect with both existing fans of del Toro\u2019s distinctive vision, and older family audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Polygon\u2019s Oli Welsh Echoed<\/a>You can see this sentiment in noting that del Toro introduced the \u201cstory to the mid-20th century,\u201dExpand on the traditional take \u201cto take in many of his own key motifs, especially from the horrific fairy tales\u00a0\u2018The Devil\u2019s Backbone\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018Pan\u2019s Labyrinth’; Europe between the wars, the specter of Fascism, the terror of childhood, the land of the dead, and the meeting point of the monstrous, the human, and the sublime.\u201dHe continues to praise the film. \u201ctechnically and artistically, one of the great works of stop motion.\u201d<\/p>\n

SlaShfilm<\/a>\u2018s Hannah Shaw-Williams similarly praised \u201cPinocchio\u201d for straying from the \u201cubiquitous Disney formula\u201d by refusing \u201cto talk down to children or draw a sunny curtain over the terrors of the world.\u201d She also gave a shoutout to the film\u2019s \u201creal shining star\u201dGregory Mann, the voice actor for the title character \u201cwith a rambunctiousness and enthusiasm that\u2019s enormously endearing and infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2019s Nicholas Barber called it a \u201csoulful stop-motion masterpiece,\u201d \u201ca dark but sweet horror fantasy about death, grief, and a misunderstood monster being persecuted by authoritarian forces.\u201dHe continued, \u201cThis rebellious spirit ensures that, for all of its seriousness, the film ends up as a life-affirming pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s<\/a> Leslie Felperin credits del Toro for making \u201chis presence felt in nearly every frame\u201d \u2014 which, Felperin notes, the director\u2019s passionate fans will adore \u2014 she writes that \u201cmore critical, less indulgent viewers might find this self-referencing a distracting sign of grandiosity or even just laziness.\u201d<\/p>\n

IndieWire<\/a>Nominated \u201cPinocchio\u201d a Critic\u2019s Pick in a gushing review declaring it del Toro\u2019s \u201cbest movie in a decade\u201dAnd a \u201ctriumph\u201dStop-motion animation. Roeban Katz, del Toro and Patrick McHale were his songs. \u201cas cheerful and catchy as they are melancholic and profound,\u201dThey were considered the weakest link by most critics.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a>\u2019s Guy Lodge singled out the film as \u201ca rare children\u2019s entertainment that isn\u2019t afraid to perplex kids as much as it enchants them,\u201dHowever, he was also a fan of the songs \u201cimmediately unmemorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s grounded historical approach serves as \u201ca giant middle finger to the Disneyfication of both the original Carlo Collodi story, and of fairy tales in general,\u201dRafael Motamayor, critic<\/p>\n

\u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio\u201dThe film’s world premiere took place Oct. 15 at London Film Festival. The film premieres in theaters in November, before streaming on Netflix starting Dec. 9.<\/p>\n

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We have received the first reviews \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio,\u201dStop-motion animation is a great success. The film, co-directed by del Toro, Mark Gustafson, was 15 years in the making and features an all-star voice cast, including Ewan McGregor and Cate Blanchett as well as Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, and Cate Blanchett. However, overwhelming praise for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":140820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1665983241_Guillermo-del-Toros-Pinocchio-Debuts-to-Glowing-Reviews.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140821,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140819\/revisions\/140821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}