"Pinocchio", by Robert Zemeckis
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The new live-action-animated hybrid version of "Pinocchio" directed by Robert Zemeckis for Disney+ has left my verdict divided.
On the one hand, the technical advances in motion capture, achieving hyper-realistic-looking digital characters, are impressive.
Tom Hanks as Geppetto and the expressiveness of his Pinocchio offer some endearing and visually dazzling moments.
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But I found the modernisation of the script and the excessive literalism too bland for a classic with darker overtones.
I miss Del Toro's risk-taking and poetic subversion in re-imagining Collodi's universe.
Formally correct, as one would expect from the veteran Zemeckis, it lacks the atmosphere to penetrate as deeply as its predecessor.
It saved the worthy work of Hanks and several spectacular sequences, although it didn't manage to move me at all.
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Perhaps the inevitable comparison with Del Toro's masterpiece released months earlier is to blame? A creditable but lesser work.
It was overlooked at the Academy Awards, overshadowed by Del Toro's version.
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I think they could have done a better job with this film, I honestly don't think it deserves to be called a "Remake" but a "Reboot".