The animated Pinocchio is horrifically terrifying, but hey, scared me from smoking, drinking alcohol under age or talking to strangers so it clearly worked. But the fact that this film completely misses the point that lying gets Pinnochio into trouble and instead serves examples of how lying helps Pinnochio is just... new levels of lack of faith in Disney writers and directors.
1. That fat guy ( i forgot his name) when he says "they won't come back as boys." 2. All the boys when they were donkeys. 3. The sperm whale. Those are the three things that scared me as a kid.
Watched it for the first time in decades about a year ago. Was astounded at the artistry in the clock scene at the beginning. Also, yes, utterly terrifying later on.
The original Disney movies really captured those moments well. The thunder and lighting in some, dark characters and evil laughter. As a kid it Def stays in your memory.
I'm glad you brought up the scene where Pinocchio lied on purpose to make his nose grow and reach the key. In the original, Pinocchio is confused and scared by his growing nose. Blue Fairy shows him some tough love by letting him get real with the consequences before she ultimately helps him, making it clear that this is his last freeby. I loved that, even as a kid. It's a good lesson for children AND adults: You can lie with your words, but your body language can say something else entirely, and that incongruency will make you look like a fool. What did Disney give us instead: Lie a little more to escape the consequences of your actions. Bad form, Disney. Bad form. 👎👎
Lol good point. Makes me think of mulan. In the original, shes a girl who didnt give up and achieved what she did through hard work. In the live action one, she achieves these things cuz she was born with "powers", not through dedication, perseverance and all that stuff. Yes of course she had to work on her skills, but how much of that was actually shown and made a point of? Im a guy but ive always loved mulan cuz i thought it was cool that there was this girl who didnt give up and ends up being the best. But this new version? Its about women empowerment (but only if u were born with the requisite powers) and very little of the hard work gets shown (also looking at u here, rey). Its like all the important and valuable lessons from the originals r just gone now, even though those were perhaps the most significant parts of the stories.
Disney live action remakes always seem to forget their own messages, their own heart that made the originals meaningful. In the original Pinocchio, the moral of the story is that Pinocchio SHOULD go to school and be a good boy, but he repeatedly let's himself get distracted into pursuing other things: fame and fortune in becoming an actor, or a life of limitless indulgence at Pleasure Island. The original short stories about Pinocchio emphasized that same morality tale: choosing education and a life of good conscience is the better choice. But in THIS film, Pinocchio makes the choice to go to school, and the SCHOOL rejects him. They say "You're not a real boy, so we won't teach you." Now the message becomes: Your personal choice is irrelevant. External forces will dictate what you're allowed to achieve. This movie COMPLETELY missunderstands its own message. They think the point of Pinocchio is about a puppet becoming a real boy, so they make that the crux of the conflict ( We wont teach you unless you're a real boy). When in fact, the point of Pinocchio is that he learns how to be brave, selfless, and true. THAT'S the assignment the Blue Fairy gives him at the start of the film. THAT'S the point of the movie. Him becoming a real boy is a byproduct of the lessons he learns, not the other way around. But Disney has forgotten the heart of that story. As is the curse of all Disney live action remakes, it would seem.
Just for the heck of it, I went back and rewatched the 1940 Pleasure Island sequence AKA the stuff of nightmares, and part of the reason WHY it's so terrifying is one the music knows how to do build up, it takes its time, and knows when to be slow and suspenseful and when to go big and over the top and chaotic and what to show and what not to show....This new version has barely any of that.
When you watch them side by side, you can really just tell how much they messed it up in the remake. It's like Disney doesn't understand their own movie.
@@glendarjj3991 Which again makes no sense because this is Robert Zemeckis aka the guy who made a cartoon shoe getting murdered and Christopher Lloyd ALSO the stuff of nightmares for many children.
It's like that saying from The Killing Joke. "One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss … The next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go… …somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten.."
@@Tadicuslegion78 Zemeckis has lost his magic a long time ago. Allied, the Walk, The Polar Express, and Flight were fine but the rest since Cast Away? Ugh. He may have done some of the best movies in the 80s and 90s but his obsession with MoCap technology since Polar Express sucked out every last ounce of his creativity.
I’m tired of Disney calling these “live action” when they’re so CGI heavy. If Disney really wanted to impress audiences, they would make these using practical effects.
@@medalgear654 that's complete rubbish, people don't understand the time and effort that goes into computer animation and CGI, it takes massive talent to make good CGI, what you think you just prees a few buttons and bam, instant CGI?
You brought up a major point about classic Disney, and it was Walt Disney's core philosophy, where he believed kids needed to be scared in order to give an impactful story. Think about any of the old school Disney animated films and take out the horror aspect, it reduces the impact it had on us and reduces why we love it. Walt also believed that kids were smart and could handle those elements and still turn out fine, and he was right.
The only Disney movie that had any sort of Horror aspect to it, in my opinion, and it really didn't hit me that way, was Snow White, because it was all about an evil witch sending her stepchild out into the woods to be murdered for no other reason than the fact that she was PRETTIER than her.
I thought that was Don Bluth's phylosophy? Where he says you can scare kids as much as you want as long as you give them a happy ending, and it will feel all the more earned.
Forgot where I read it, but it's not Walt Disney's philosophy, it's Don Bluth's. However, Walt Disney do think cartoon should not only cater for kids, because adult are also grown up kids
@@scottkendall7789 Bambi had the birds getting shot, the parent getting shot & the forest fire sequence. Little mermaid had the Ursula becomes a craken and attacks the boat scene, as well as the eels throughout. Sleeping beauty had a few scenes, especially the dragon fight. Dumbo had the weird hallucinogenic trip in the middle. Beauty & the beast had the wolf attack & just beast in general for the first portion. Enough old micky & goofy cartoons had horror elements that there are youtube channels dedicated to these "dark toons." Even going slightly newer, Christopher Lloyd's song scene in Anastasia is intense for children, lion king has both the villain song scene and mufasa being trampled and being thrown off a cliff, to say nothing of the end fight. Old Disney was full of stuff that wouldn't be put in a modern "young children" movie. Not as much as Bluth films that were scary for the sake of it & for children, but still, more intense than the stuff meant for the younger than tween crowd. Not scary to an adult, but put yourself back in rhe mind of a 5 year old & this stuff is intense.
Maybe it was pre WW2 Disney, but after WW2, Disney mellowed out. Don’t believe me? Look at what they were originally planning for Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland before the war.
2:42 I forgot how powerful I still get the feels from the classic animated films. Just hearing that poor little guy's voice crack as he begs to go home still gets me teary-eyed. This movie also scared the piss out of me as a child and still gives me the shivers at some points. Why can't Disney just leave this shit alone? "If it's not broke, don't fix it!" --Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast Ok, I know he said, "Baroque" --a play of words, but the message is still the same!
Why can't Disney leave it alone? Because the current prevailing Wokeness in Hollywood relies on era shaming. Everything before was bad and unenlightened. We should hate them for not being as wise as we are. Because to admit they might have been wiser and more virtuous would cause us to check and see if maybe we did something wrong with all the "progress". And the Woke Police can NEVER admit to being wrong about anything. Everyone else is the problem.
Because they need to go back and "fix" their supposedly patriarchal, white-influenced, non-inclusive, gender binary, "adults know better" sins. This is about atonement and absolution. This is Disney's religion that requires this of them.
It’s such a shame that there was an Italian live action Pinocchio film in 2019 that won’t get anywhere near the attention that this one will get. That film was awesome.
I agree. There are are about three here in Italy ..the Classic series from the 60s, Roberto benigni as director and Pinocchio himself (approx 2006) and another also Roberto Benigni but this time hes Gepetto. all so brilliant and of course the original story..if people want the real Pinocchio they should def view the italian versions.
I was a meek little kid when it came to movies, and even I could watch Disney's Pinocchio no problem. It was scary at parts, but it didn't make me want to turn off the TV. Kids don't need watered down versions of good movies, like all people, they need stories that make them feel something.
Well even people like my parents have assumed that there’s nothing that animation can do that live action couldn’t, I think part of what made Pinocchio so scary for me was the fact that I was so used to animation being relatively positive, or at least could carry positive happiness more easily than live action. So having somethings so assumedly positive portray something so scary and dark was just horrifying!
I think for me, it's because I experience the world in live action every day, so I can see a fantastical element and think "Ah, that's inconsistent with the world I know" But even if a piece of animation is exaggerated, it can still be consistent and everything looks equally strange, so it blends together in a way that my brain can commit to
"There's nothing that animation can do that live action can't" Well, can a paid actor manifest tweeting birds that fly around their head after getting hit in the face by a shovel? If you paint a tunnel onto a cliff face and tell Kevin Hart to run into it, will he run through the painted on tunnel? What if you blow pepper into Arnold Schwarzenegger's face, will he sneeze so loudly the buildings around him jump 6 meters into the air and land perfectly where they were?
That also reminds me of something that popped into my head: what eventually happened to the Coachman and how did the boys turn into donkeys in the first place? My theory is that he's actually an evil wizard that spread the curse of the island and when he saw that Pinocchio escaped, he turned into Monstruo and decided to punish Pinocchio worse than turning him into a donkey: trying to kill his father by becoming Monstro
Thank you! You are the first reviewer to point out the bad lesson learned from his nose growing. That was the first thing I noticed. He's getting rewarded by lying and he knows it.
There are two scenes in Disney films that haunt me, to this day: 1.) Lampwick turning into a donkey and screaming for his mom 2.) The impatient pheasant, in Bambi, getting killed as she flies away
The original Pinocchio is one of the few films from Disney I would call perfect. It has the perfect balance between light hearted comedy and truly terrifying moments. I personally can't watch the film anymore because of how much the scenes from Pleasure Island absolutely terrify me. But there was charm, funny moments, sad moments, scary moments, and animation that holds up to this day. The music is also incredibly beautiful as evidenced by the Oscars they received for Best Song and Score. It's a beautiful story of a little boy learning what it means to be human. To learn of what it means to be brave, truthful and unselfish as demonstrated when he risks everything, even his own safety to rescue his father from Monstruo. And he sacrifices his own life without any hesitation to save his father and thus, he is rewarded by being allowed to be human. It's beautiful, simple and a wonderful message to kids and adults alike as to what it means to be an honorable and unselfish person. This film? It is completely devoid of all of that and I hate to say that given how much I love Tom Hanks, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Cynthia Erivo. But even they can't save this film. The nose growing scene you mention is probably the prime example of what is wrong with this movie. The scene in the original was designed so Pinocchio could learn that lying was a bad thing. Then the Blue Fairy rewards him by letting him out of the cage. Pinocchio never then lies for the rest of the movie. Why then in the hell would you use his nose as a way to escape the cage? What lesson does this actually demonstrate? What purpose does it show?
I think the nose growing scene in the remake serves to show that Pinocchio can get out of tight spots on his own without the help of the Blue Fairy but, you're right, the scene in the animated classic illustrated the point of the hazards of lying, which is the whole point of that moment in the story.
I think the scariest part of the original 1940 animated film is that nothing is resolved in regards to the hellhole that is Pleasure Island. Pinocchio manages to escape, yes, but the horror machine will keep running since none of the people in charge are brought to justice. I don't know if the novel ever gives it resolution, but it's downright scary to think that the kids that turned into donkeys will continue their slave labor until the day they die
That was the point. Telling kids to behave themselves and listen to their conscience because if they don’t, they may end up in a situation where nobody can save them.
It doesn't, but it is more traumatic. In the book, Pinocchio actually finishes turning into a donkey and is sold to a circus ringmaster. While performing tricks, he injures his leg and is thus sold to another man who wants to turn his donkey skin into a drum, so he throws him into the water to drown him. But while Pinocchio is underwater, the fairy sends a school of fish to eat his donkey skin off, thus making him a puppet again.
@@artbytesia Oh the missed oportunities! They should have included THAT in the live action remake. Instead they included the "lying is sometimes helpful" message....
@@Quotenwagnerianer that scene is included in Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019). Its an italian movie, dont know if its dubbed, dont know if its done well enough (clearly italy puts less budget than tha u.s) but it has some features from the original book that Disney never considered.
The sad thing is that people like the Coachman are out there and they get away with shit like this all the time with no consequences. The fact we never see him again is just proof of that harsh reality and I honestly appreciate that.
In the original, Pinocchio chose to go with the charlatans and the lesson was not to go off with strangers. In this one, he chose *not* to go with them, and to just go to school, only to be kicked out of school. Then seeing he can't do what's right, went off with the fox. The lesson: why bother doing the right thing or going to school? They're only going to hate you for being different. Might as well just join the gang and save yourself some time.
@@battlion507 it's really sad because one of the script writers, Chris Weisz, also cowrote the screenplay for Disney's live-action Cinderella, which imo was fantastic.
Yeah, that's probably the main thing that makes this movie so bad, is that they undercut the main lessons of the story whether it was intentional or not. "So remember kids, if you lie enough times, you'll eventually get what you want!"
I recommend the actual Italian one that came out just a couple of years ago. It's dark and quite bizarre, but then again so is the original story. The performances are really on point in that one, and for a low budget film the special effects are done really well.
Between these live action remakes and Kingdom Hearts, I'm convinced Disney genuinely believes they can just keep selling worse versions of their classic material forever. Also, that "tell a lie to extend the nose and reach the key" beat is lifted directly from Shrek 2. I feel like that says it all right there.
And in the case of Shrek 2 Pinocchio was tied up so he had to help his friends somehow. The live action version Jimmy possibly could’ve found some way to get the keys. Also the kingdom hearts thing they don’t always adapt the worlds for batem and when they do I can understand it’s not gonna be as good. Although could be worse
Disney is a textbook example of why copyright laws should be limited to about 15 years. The legal protections today are not helping to inspire Walt Disney to make another masterpiece. He's dead, along with any corporate drive to make a masterpiece. We have patent/copyright laws to encourage creativity and cause people like Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison to flourish. We didn't make the laws so a godless corporation could become stinking rich. Movies like CGI Pinocchio do nothing positive for society. If you didn't make any money off the movie in 15 years, too bad. It's public domain now. They did a study in Britain that said the optimum time for exclusive rights was about 15 years. After that the patent/copyright laws stifle creativity instead of nurturing it. 90% of Disney's "Vault" portfolio needs to be made public domain. Along with the other corporations too. I'm not just getting on Disney.
@@protorhinocerator142 The other issue is Disney swallowing up all these other studios, they own almost everything now, that should never have been allowed to happen as it concentrates all the creativity into one corporate entity.
When I watched the trailer I couldn't believe the art direction of this movie. It's supposedly a "live action" remake, but the art style of Pinocchio is straight out of a fully animated film
All CGI is animation. If this was Truly live action than Pinocchio would have been a real person playing a wooden puppet, Figaro would have been a real cat, cleo would have been a real gold fish, Monstro would have been a real whale. And Why did they make Monstro into a SEA MONSTER he's supposed to be a giant blue whale.
@@scottkendall7789 I am well aware of what CGI is, I work as a 3d Artist :P. I said Pinocchio looks like a character out of 'fully' animated movie, not one to fit into a live action environment with real people.
This film is just another example of infantilization that's prevalent in the Western society in modern times. Basically, we treat each generation as 5 years younger than they actually are. Thus, kids who were old enough to watch Pinocchio in the 1940s are now treated like little babies who'll cry over anything remotely scary. And this IS meant to be scary. It's a cautionary tale, meant to scare kids and make them careful. Besides that, film glances over each of its plot-points within minutes and there's no time to develop anything properly.
say what you will about the original movie but at least it didn't show literal horseshit. Oh yeah we don't want to scare are kids..so let's show they what they really want..SHIT!
I saw the old animated movie, and yes, it did scare me as a child. The donkey transformation scene was especially traumatizing, and is forever seared into my memory.
"What's the point" is THE statement for ALL of Disney's live-action remakes. If anything, they are a testament to cowardice cuz they wan't to distance themselves from potential controversy and adapting them for a spineless and soulless generation. Soon they'll vault all the animations so the only version of the movies that are accessible are the soulless live-action ones.
Not happening, these remakes make people remind of the originals. When The Lion King remake was released, I saw merchandise of the movie for sale again, but the original, not the remake.
Honestly, it's a disgrace to me that this movie was implemented too poorly here. It's a good thing we're getting Guillermo del Toro's version of Pinnochio soon. Hopefully, it'll be better than this so-called “version.”
I have completely run out of "give-a-shit" for anything related to Disney ( oh, what the hell, Hollywood) with their endless sequels, prequels, and reimagined franchises. I am waiting for Disney to start making animated remakes, of their live action remakes, of their original animated movies.
I saw the original with my grandma when I was 7 years old. I spent a lot of time hanging onto her hand because it scared the hell out of me. The original was epic, with a lot of attention paid to detail. BTW, Honest John (the fox) was a parody of John Barrymore.
Ditto. Which is funny because I remember in high school someone held a picture of the Coachman’s demon smile against a picture of me smiling and went, they’re the same picture
Yeah I hated how the morality aspect of this movie was so immensely watered down to the point where there is no VALUE in doing anything "Good" because this movie is so FLAWED at showing the decision-making process and the choices of right and wrong, that the entire idea just falls flat on its face. Geppetto really gets the short end of the stick here!!! Not only does he lose his wife and child to death, he gets the puppet BUT WE DONT EVEN GET TO SEE HIM BE HAPPY AT THE END WHEN PINOCCHIO BECOMES A REAL BOY. THEY TEASE IT. WE DONT EVEN GET THE HAPPINESS FROM GEPPETTO. Its such bullshit. That man sold ALL his clocks to buy a tiny shitty wooden boat that gets destroyed in 5 seconds and we dont even get to see his response to Pinocchio becoming real. Its bullshit. Also, all Pinocchio did on Pleasure Island was drink Root Beer and play pool. He cant play Hookey from school because they kicked him out. So its like....if youre different in school you get kicked out??? Drinking Root Beer and playing Pool is BAD so I get turned into a DONKEY???? It made NO fucking sense because Pinocchio never CHOSE to do anything BAD. He didnt drink. He didnt smoke. He didnt make BAD decisions, he just simply DIDNT KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING. Man this movie SUCKED. XD
The woke made this movie. If REAL humans had made this movie, it would have been epic. But since the woke made it, it's SHIT, just like all the other shitty shit Hollywood has been putting out in the last few years.
@@zenmasterorwhatever it started production 2 years ago, right after Tom Hanks finished his work on “Elvis.” Before that, it had been in development for 5 years.
The lack of moral choice for Pinnochio definitely hurt the movie. Here, he seems to clearly know the difference between right and wrong at all times, so why even have the cricket? He also only ends up at Pleasure Island because he was abducted. So why was he in danger of turning into a donkey at all?
I think the quality we see in these live action updates is less about trying to make a good new version of it but moreso them protecting their works from falling into public domain. The quality of these movies definitely reflects a rush job in most cases so they can get it out the door and not lose their property. Winnie the Pooh is a perfect example. The minute that hit public domain, someone snatched it up for a grindfest horror flick adaptation. IP holder or not; that's potentially damage to Disney's brands and I would have a hard time believing they're ok with that
Aren’t the stories Disney has made films of already public domain? Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin (but under a different name from an old story)
While probably true that's also the problem, because it's not Disney's to worry about someone else doing exactly what they did in the first place, which is use someone else's creation to make their own interpretation. I'm always so happy when an IP goes back public because if gives all of us more opportunities to experience something amazing. I think Disney has proven with Star Wars alone they aren't the end all be all of quality entertainment
@@darthcinema4262 I agree. Is it any wonder Bob Chapek was booed when he entered D23? Plus, even Bob Iger now regrets choosing Bob Chapek. If I were to pick someone to be in charge of Disney, it would be Kevin Feige as his contributions to Marvel would've worked out well for Disney, too
My only issue is they made too many changes from the original that really didn’t need to be changed. Especially the ending from Monstro onwards. Pinocchio played a big key part in that section of the story, that in the animation we went from sad tears to happy tears. But this didn’t give that same feel.
The classic animation really did freak me out as a kid. From the kid turning into a Donkey to the sounds of the Whale sounding like some distorted Xbox Live microphone in game chat. Live actions can never hope to do it as good
The ending was such a huge let down. I was waiting the entire movie for Pinocchio to turn into a real boy. Even though I knew the movie wasn’t that great, I thought to myself “at least I have the ending to look forward to”. And then bam. Oh we don’t know if he became a real boy. What was that shit.
I had the same thought.....I watched the whole movie and I was waiting for Pinocchio to change into a real boy at the end and I didn't see it, so I was quite disappointed. And I mentioned it here on UA-cam on another video and somebody commented on that video that Pinocchio does change into a real boy at the end, I didn't believe them and I was about to call them a liar, but I went back and rewatched the ending to this movie and sure enough, He did change into a real boy. But they did it so subtly that you would miss it if you weren't really paying attention. So, to you, I say, Go back and rewatch the ending of this movie and pay extremely CLOSE attention to the very end when Pinocchio and Geppetto are walking out of the cave. As they are walking Pinocchio changes. But you have to pay close attention to it or you will miss it.
"that shit" is Disney remaking all of their classic movies, because they got nothing else better to do than suck up all that extra cash.... ........ And they have about half a dozen more movies on the way just like this one!!!!!!
@@scottkendall7789 ooo, we’ll if you didn’t tell me I would have no idea he changed. I thought they were just following original source material or something. Wish it were more in your face though, because that could have been a really heartfelt moment in the movie
Old Disney movies were dark as hell. Like seriously, have you guys seen the beauty and the beast, or even Bambi? But you know what? I think I loved them more for those darker moments. For a child like I was, those Disney movies felt REAL, serious, they were the good stuff. Now I think that most movies for kids (including modern disney) are terribly condescending. They assume that kids are dumb and they can't take some darker tones and that's ridiculous for a lot of kids. Even when I had nightmares after watching a movie (Jurassic Park for example), I loved it and the nightmares gave me another chance to learn how to beat fear, to know myself a little better, and to grow as a person. And nightmares were exciting. In my adult life I miss them some times. Ok, this has devolved quite a lot but the message is: Nightmares are good.
Walt Disney animated movies never messed with my mind. The only movies that ever messed with my mind are Halloween and Friday the thirteenth. I can still watch them with no problem, but, Going outside after dark became a problem because, if I am by myself, I get the feeling that somebody is standing in the darkness watching me, waiting for the right moment to pounce on me. Disney animated movies did do that to me.
@@scottkendall7789 Fear is very subjective I suppose. Kids with big imagination don't need much to get their minds affected by anything. I started watching shadows moving everywhere. Studying psychology I got to know that there are some "ancestral fears", so to say. Fears that repeat over generations in people with specific personality traits. For example, the fear of small creatures hiding in a room or a house, waiting to attack you, is something extremely typical in people with tendency to anxiety. In those nightmares they hide sometimes but most of the times they search for the creatures, which is strange if you are afraid of them, but that's how you deal with anxiety: Forcing anything that is waiting for you to happen as soon as possible to make it finish. I don't remember what was the association with fear to have big strong murderers watching at you from the shadows, to be honest. I never was afraid from those and it's weird because those are pretty realistic in my opinion. But to my kid's mind, a door was enough to stop any man. Dinosaurs, magic creatures, aliens, and unknown things crawling in the dark hallway that connected with my room as a kid, those were the kind of things that kept me awake. Now as an adult I genuinely miss that imagination. The ability to see all kind of impossible creatures around me, the strong feelings associated, etc... as an adult most of the time I feel nothing. The world loses its scent, it becomes a movie, something you watch as it passes through your eyes, I will never remember most of the stuff that will happen today. I truly miss nightmares.
The animated Pinocchio was the only Disney film where the villains succeeded. The coachman trafficked children as jackasses and all Pinocchio could do was escape. Same with honest John and Gideon. They got their payday. The voice acting and sound effects were just on another level in the animated film. Lampwick’s transformation, the coachman’s red face, Stromboli’s voice and threats to Pinocchio. It’s just horrifying.
Fun fact about the orange juice analogy, I was looking at bottles of orange juice at the grocery store yesterday and noticed all of the "light" or "lite" varieties are literally watered down orange juice. I even bought little single serve bottles of each to compare, and sure enough if you add enough water to regular OJ, it'll reach the exact same color and flavor as the light version. I'm certain the difference in nutritional value on the back between both kinds can be used to calculate the exact amount of water used to dilute it. All I'm trying to say is that watered down orange juice is a real thing that real people are buying, and also orange juice doesn't go that well with edibles
I remember watching the original when I was a kid… but was thinking I don’t remember being scared or anything but when you played that scene with the kid going “I want to go home to my mommy.” it trigged something in long forgotten memory.
Yes, the original has a few scary parts, but it’s by no means terrifying lol. In fact it teaches lots of lessons to kids about strangers, and being fooled easily.
The biggest dissapointment I had was that they cut out "Little Wooden Head" which is my favourite song in the original animated movie. If Disney was really commited to make a live action adaptation of the animated movie, why the hell they cut out that?
I had never seen Mulan and decided to purposefully wait for the live-action. I watched the live action first and thought it was pretty good.... until I watched the animated Mulan. The Live action movies just can not compare.
I grew up on the old animated version and I loved it. I think it's the reason why cat's became my favourite animal, have you seen Figaro ? So adorable.
I haven't watched the animated Pinocchio because it traumatized me when I was little 😅😅 but I was hoping that the new one would be just as dark with that same feelings. I guess you saved us whatever the run time of the movie was. Which is why I watch you lol so thanks!!
You might as well revisit the original. As someone who rewatched it today, it holds up extremely well and the animation somehow remains extremely beautiful.
@@elvewizzy that was my experience. I was young and had nightmares after watching it. Plus my parents were the type to turn everything into a "lesson" so that didn't help. Bambie was sad there's a big difference between them.
It was so long ago and I was very young so I don't have many memories of it . I also remember how much I loved Song of the South and the wonderful performance of James Baskett and I never saw the crows' song in Dumbo as anything other than having a Black sound because crows are Black and it was a highlight of the film.
The original Pinocchio movie used to scare me as a kid, but not anymore! It's one of my favorite Disney classics and I looked forward to seeing this movie. It could have been more of a decent remake, there were some bizarre changes that disappointed me or upset me. Like when Honest John the fox and Gideon the cat didn't return to trick Pinocchio again like in the original. I would have loved to see them interact with Luke Evans portraying the Coachman in the Red Lobster Inn! Really didn't care for how they made Monstro into a weird sea monster, they should have either still kept him a whale or simply just change him into a giant great white shark. Not to mention the very lazy ending! Anyway, some changes I really did enjoy was like how they made the Coachman's dark and mysterious minions into smoke monsters and Stromboli going to jail!
None of these Disney Live Action movies will ever be held in the same regards as the timeless animated versions. Which goes back to your question, "Why even make them in the first place?" Why not just release the animated movies to theaters again?
I watch this with my nephew, and we lost internets in it fast. It wasn't until the puppet show that he started to show interest. When I put on the original Pinocchio on, he watched the whole thing with full interests, and he's only 7 years old.
I still feel like Christopher Robin is the only live action film they’ve made so far that didn’t feel totally unnecessary. Like yeah, the film is basically just Hook with Pooh characters, but at least it’s not a completely unnecessary and watered down retread of an already established film. It told a (mostly) original story instead of being a near beat for beat remake. I wish they’d do that more.
Does that even count as a remake? I feel like it's a continuation of the Winnie The Pooh franchise because we see Christopher Robin as a grown man with a wife and daughter and Jim Cummings being brought back as the voice of Pooh and Tigger!
I actually quite liked Dumbo for this very reason tbh? Like.. I completely get why they had to remove so many elements from Dumbo (It was racist as heck after all). but that meant they were actually forced to come up with a lot of new elements etc that for me at least made it a completely different story as opposed to the original but with lots of CGI
for a second I thought this was the guillermo del toro pinoccho and was schocked, then I saw it was the disney one. what a relief! (cause I have high expectations for the guillermo del toro version)
Thank you thank you thank you thank you for mentioning the sound design of the original monstro. It was utterly terrifying. Something about just that brutal tonality almost reminded me of that creepypasta about " the bloop". Who would have thought that octopus mosasaur the new one would end up infinitely less scary than a charcoal rendered whale from 1940. You're right. The devil is absolutely in the details.
I watched Snow, White and Pinocchio with my Sicilian grandfather who saw them both in the theaters. And I think he would have been like 17 when Pinocchio came out, he might have been in the army when Pinocchio came out, But it was really interesting seeing him perk up and watch this movie from his childhood. And do a certainly said, childhood in the Great depression Was that frightening. The Mafia was in his city, his stepfather would go to the Italian American center. All around the countryside were mafia run gambling parlors. Someplace like pleasure Island was around the corner if you knew where to look. Even watching Snow White and the seven dwarfs, The dwarfs were a lot like somebody you would have met back in the '30s. Just hardworking characters who swung up Pickaxe for a living. Even though Pinocchio is kind of northern Italy, I'm sure that having an Italian story was pretty cool for my grandfather.
I love how there was a potential Pinocchio animated movie review hidden under this one. Would you consider reviewing more of the classic animated movies, Jeremy? Maybe even some of the non-Disney ones, like An American Tale, Prince of Egypt and the like?
I remember begging for this animated movie on VHS when I was a kid. Then I watched it over and over to prove it was a solid investment. It lead to my folks purchasing many, many more Disney movies. Then I moved out and did not take any with me as DVD's had become all the rage.
To be completely fair to the material, and to give credit where it’s due; It’s not as bad as Jeremy is making it out to be. It’s actually worse. If Lion King remake ruined your childhood, this will rub it in.
I actually think that the Lion King remake was still far worse than this remake. Lion King remake has the characters with just no facial expressions which makes the movie so boring whereas Pinocchio was really mediocre but it's still have Jiminy Cricket that they really did a fine job with it
The whole donkey thing always freaked me out. Was it to the salt mines and then off to the meat market in an Asian country later?! Lol My favorite part of the original movie was the first few minutes in the home. Cute little goldfish and wood carvings. Once he becomes a real boy the movie just gets crazy and creepy
The fact that a 30-something (I'm guessing) reviewer can cite an 82 year old movie as being a formative event in his childhood speaks to the power and timeless nature of the classic Disney animated features (defined as "during Walt's lifetime" i.e., up through Jungle Book). The fact that this one is forgotten at T+1 days, speaks just as powerfully about the current company.
@@thelennon07 I totally agree, lots of the hate has been mostly online and loud. Everyone I know IRL has really enjoyed it so far. I wouldn't say it's perfect but it's a lot better than UA-cam and reddit made it seem. People were hating on it months before it even came out lol.
I recently had a convo with a friend about childhood movies and when I mentioned how much Pinocchio scared the shit out of me she gave me this LOOK. THANK YOU JEREMY JAHNS I AM VINDICATED.
your friend was justified in giving you that look. There is nothing terrifying about Pinocchio. I would have given you a look also if I had been the one you told.
That nose gag is the same basic formula they used in Shrek 2. Shrek: the franchise known for roasting Disney properties was copied by Disney without a hint of Irony. Sublime.
I watched Pinocchio once when I was a kid and I still remember it as if I'd watched it far more than that. I had nightmares about stranger danger and donkeys and that God awful whale sounds for weeks. I remember rushing through kingdom hearts to get out of there too. That was miserable.
The fact that this movie had a budget of only $35 million in this day and age despite being a remake of one of Disney's truly classic movies is a pretty good indication of how much Disney cared... If they don't give a damn why should anyone else?
That pleasure island shit from the original movie still freaks me the hell out. Considering that the movie never answers if the boys get away is horrific.
It is also the only old school Disney movie where NONE of the villains get any comeuppance for their deeds. They all get away without punishment. Which actually is a very powerful message. Sometimes life isn’t always fair like that and all you can do is really try to be the best self you can be.
Let's not forget that The Coachman gets away unscathed. After he drops the kids off at pleasure Island and hauls them off to the salt mines that's it. I guess we're to assume that he just keeps it going even after Pinocchio changes back. And what about all those other little boys? A torturous life of servitude.
JJ my main man! Another quality review! I’m not going to watch this movie. I never liked the Pinocchio story, was never a fan of the Disney animation or any other version of the story. But as always, you are very entertaining in the way you present the review. This is the reason I follow you! Thanks!
Yes, I grew up with the animated version and it didn't scare me because I already knew the dark original story from kindergarten. I grew up with the original darker book versions of Disney's animations. 🙂
The Monstro scenes in the original terrified me for a long time. When I would swim in really deep water, I would imagine what it would feel like, for something like that to swim underneath me. The pure fear, of some massive leviathan coming up slowly, from the depths below you.
Jermey love your work! Love watching your videos. So bleep this movie I agree. Have you seen SLC Punk? It’s an oldie bit of a cult film at this point but definitely worth bringing attention to. Regardless can’t wait for the next video!
Pinocchio scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Especially the Pleasure Island part. Plus the whole concept of a doll coming alive just freaked me out
instead of Pinocchio being naive and lacking moral guidance- which is the entire point of his character- it's now framed like he had no choice but to take Honest John's offer and join Stromboli's show because the option to go to school was taken from him. Hollywood remakes its old movies because it has run out of ideas, but they are also revising all of these films because our culture has been subject to a rapid transformation, one which is incompatible with most of it's classic works
I think about this problem whenever I'm watching a new TV show or movie. It's not what's on the surface that I have a problem with, like diversity or other things. The problem is much deeper than that: companies like Disney or HBO that don't care about their own history, and they expect you to care about their new toy just because it's shiny.
The animated Pinocchio is horrifically terrifying, but hey, scared me from smoking, drinking alcohol under age or talking to strangers so it clearly worked. But the fact that this film completely misses the point that lying gets Pinnochio into trouble and instead serves examples of how lying helps Pinnochio is just... new levels of lack of faith in Disney writers and directors.
Or just simply, people didn’t get it
Disney would promote lying lol
‘Horrifically terrifying’?. No, it was merely scary.
So dramatic lmao 😂
@@fullarmourtracksuit4023 right, clearly exaggerated
The original version is a technical miracle of animation. And yes, it scared me as a child and still does
same. *shudders*
1. That fat guy ( i forgot his name) when he says "they won't come back as boys."
2. All the boys when they were donkeys.
3. The sperm whale.
Those are the three things that scared me as a kid.
Watched it for the first time in decades about a year ago. Was astounded at the artistry in the clock scene at the beginning. Also, yes, utterly terrifying later on.
The original Disney movies really captured those moments well. The thunder and lighting in some, dark characters and evil laughter. As a kid it Def stays in your memory.
That film is considered to be the most technically perfect Disney animated film ever
I'm glad you brought up the scene where Pinocchio lied on purpose to make his nose grow and reach the key. In the original, Pinocchio is confused and scared by his growing nose. Blue Fairy shows him some tough love by letting him get real with the consequences before she ultimately helps him, making it clear that this is his last freeby. I loved that, even as a kid. It's a good lesson for children AND adults: You can lie with your words, but your body language can say something else entirely, and that incongruency will make you look like a fool.
What did Disney give us instead: Lie a little more to escape the consequences of your actions. Bad form, Disney. Bad form. 👎👎
The art of storytelling is lost in this modern age of ever growing capitelisim.
It is not capitalism, it is wokism.
Lol good point. Makes me think of mulan. In the original, shes a girl who didnt give up and achieved what she did through hard work. In the live action one, she achieves these things cuz she was born with "powers", not through dedication, perseverance and all that stuff.
Yes of course she had to work on her skills, but how much of that was actually shown and made a point of?
Im a guy but ive always loved mulan cuz i thought it was cool that there was this girl who didnt give up and ends up being the best. But this new version? Its about women empowerment (but only if u were born with the requisite powers) and very little of the hard work gets shown (also looking at u here, rey).
Its like all the important and valuable lessons from the originals r just gone now, even though those were perhaps the most significant parts of the stories.
@@maggiesheartlove2734 ever growing corporatism*
But yea
Wow, horrible Disney
Disney live action remakes always seem to forget their own messages, their own heart that made the originals meaningful. In the original Pinocchio, the moral of the story is that Pinocchio SHOULD go to school and be a good boy, but he repeatedly let's himself get distracted into pursuing other things: fame and fortune in becoming an actor, or a life of limitless indulgence at Pleasure Island. The original short stories about Pinocchio emphasized that same morality tale: choosing education and a life of good conscience is the better choice.
But in THIS film, Pinocchio makes the choice to go to school, and the SCHOOL rejects him. They say "You're not a real boy, so we won't teach you." Now the message becomes: Your personal choice is irrelevant. External forces will dictate what you're allowed to achieve. This movie COMPLETELY missunderstands its own message. They think the point of Pinocchio is about a puppet becoming a real boy, so they make that the crux of the conflict ( We wont teach you unless you're a real boy). When in fact, the point of Pinocchio is that he learns how to be brave, selfless, and true. THAT'S the assignment the Blue Fairy gives him at the start of the film. THAT'S the point of the movie. Him becoming a real boy is a byproduct of the lessons he learns, not the other way around. But Disney has forgotten the heart of that story. As is the curse of all Disney live action remakes, it would seem.
Underrated and well said
On the nail
and after all that.. spoiler alert here I guess??
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He doesn't even become a real boy.
@@rebeccabriggs9452 yeah he does, they just show it for a second though, when his legs turn from puppet to real.
@@cyklonus1 I thought jiminy made it a point to mention that some people say he did and maybe one day it will happen? Or words to that effect?
Just for the heck of it, I went back and rewatched the 1940 Pleasure Island sequence AKA the stuff of nightmares, and part of the reason WHY it's so terrifying is one the music knows how to do build up, it takes its time, and knows when to be slow and suspenseful and when to go big and over the top and chaotic and what to show and what not to show....This new version has barely any of that.
When you watch them side by side, you can really just tell how much they messed it up in the remake. It's like Disney doesn't understand their own movie.
@@glendarjj3991 Which again makes no sense because this is Robert Zemeckis aka the guy who made a cartoon shoe getting murdered and Christopher Lloyd ALSO the stuff of nightmares for many children.
Well the original sequence made it seem very pedo. Like he was kidnapping and selling boys
It's like that saying from The Killing Joke. "One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss …
The next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go…
…somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten.."
@@Tadicuslegion78 Zemeckis has lost his magic a long time ago. Allied, the Walk, The Polar Express, and Flight were fine but the rest since Cast Away? Ugh. He may have done some of the best movies in the 80s and 90s but his obsession with MoCap technology since Polar Express sucked out every last ounce of his creativity.
Gonna wait for Del Toro on this one, bois
Do you know when it's coming out
@@lomauries it’s coming out in December.
Just watched Del Toro's one and it's thousand times better than this Disney garbage piece of shit.
It was. Masterpiece
His take was fantastic. The stop motion and story was brilliant
I’m tired of Disney calling these “live action” when they’re so CGI heavy. If Disney really wanted to impress audiences, they would make these using practical effects.
that would require heart and soul.
That would require a lot more effort.
it would require a lot more work, effort and passion. Dinsey has none of that anymore
That would require an attempt at talent.
@@medalgear654 that's complete rubbish, people don't understand the time and effort that goes into computer animation and CGI, it takes massive talent to make good CGI, what you think you just prees a few buttons and bam, instant CGI?
I can’t wait until Disney starts doing animated remakes of all their live-action remakes.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
OH GOSH NO!!!
Where they replaced every white character
@G. A. So more incels like you can cry about it?
@@Guus115 quit crying
You brought up a major point about classic Disney, and it was Walt Disney's core philosophy, where he believed kids needed to be scared in order to give an impactful story. Think about any of the old school Disney animated films and take out the horror aspect, it reduces the impact it had on us and reduces why we love it. Walt also believed that kids were smart and could handle those elements and still turn out fine, and he was right.
The only Disney movie that had any sort of Horror aspect to it, in my opinion, and it really didn't hit me that way, was Snow White, because it was all about an evil witch sending her stepchild out into the woods to be murdered for no other reason than the fact that she was PRETTIER than her.
I thought that was Don Bluth's phylosophy? Where he says you can scare kids as much as you want as long as you give them a happy ending, and it will feel all the more earned.
Forgot where I read it, but it's not Walt Disney's philosophy, it's Don Bluth's.
However, Walt Disney do think cartoon should not only cater for kids, because adult are also grown up kids
@@scottkendall7789 Bambi had the birds getting shot, the parent getting shot & the forest fire sequence. Little mermaid had the Ursula becomes a craken and attacks the boat scene, as well as the eels throughout. Sleeping beauty had a few scenes, especially the dragon fight. Dumbo had the weird hallucinogenic trip in the middle. Beauty & the beast had the wolf attack & just beast in general for the first portion. Enough old micky & goofy cartoons had horror elements that there are youtube channels dedicated to these "dark toons." Even going slightly newer, Christopher Lloyd's song scene in Anastasia is intense for children, lion king has both the villain song scene and mufasa being trampled and being thrown off a cliff, to say nothing of the end fight.
Old Disney was full of stuff that wouldn't be put in a modern "young children" movie. Not as much as Bluth films that were scary for the sake of it & for children, but still, more intense than the stuff meant for the younger than tween crowd. Not scary to an adult, but put yourself back in rhe mind of a 5 year old & this stuff is intense.
Maybe it was pre WW2 Disney, but after WW2, Disney mellowed out. Don’t believe me? Look at what they were originally planning for Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland before the war.
This crazy accent era of Tom Hanks is what happens when you win a million awards for acting and are just doing it for shits and giggles
He's completing all the side quests
Urggg elvis
Casting Tom Hanks as Gepettio on paper seemed like a great idea because you know, it's Tom Hanks then seeing it in execution, I take it back lol
@@KatSpicert pretty much
@@4deleDaz33m To be fair, Tom Hanks didn’t have much to work with
2:42 I forgot how powerful I still get the feels from the classic animated films. Just hearing that poor little guy's voice crack as he begs to go home still gets me teary-eyed. This movie also scared the piss out of me as a child and still gives me the shivers at some points. Why can't Disney just leave this shit alone?
"If it's not broke, don't fix it!"
--Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast
Ok, I know he said, "Baroque" --a play of words, but the message is still the same!
Why can't Disney leave it alone?
Because the current prevailing Wokeness in Hollywood relies on era shaming. Everything before was bad and unenlightened. We should hate them for not being as wise as we are.
Because to admit they might have been wiser and more virtuous would cause us to check and see if maybe we did something wrong with all the "progress".
And the Woke Police can NEVER admit to being wrong about anything. Everyone else is the problem.
Because they need to go back and "fix" their supposedly patriarchal, white-influenced, non-inclusive, gender binary, "adults know better" sins. This is about atonement and absolution. This is Disney's religion that requires this of them.
It’s such a shame that there was an Italian live action Pinocchio film in 2019 that won’t get anywhere near the attention that this one will get. That film was awesome.
I agree. There are are about three here in Italy ..the Classic series from the 60s, Roberto benigni as director and Pinocchio himself (approx 2006) and another also Roberto Benigni but this time hes Gepetto. all so brilliant and of course the original story..if people want the real Pinocchio they should def view the italian versions.
We really live in a world where "Pinocchio: A True Story" is better than Disney's remake of Pinocchio.
And more memorable because of Pauly Shore.
I highly doubt that.
It's got way more Yassification in it.
Quality wise it’s debatable, but there is no question that yassified Pinocchio will far outlive Disney remake Pinocchio
lol A priceless comment, indeed!
Seeing Jeremy in a black void saying "United, no less!" is very surreal
Feels like I’m in a different universe
Yeah that immediately threw me off. Seeing Jeremy stand in front of anything other than a red or blue background is startling.
I was a meek little kid when it came to movies, and even I could watch Disney's Pinocchio no problem. It was scary at parts, but it didn't make me want to turn off the TV. Kids don't need watered down versions of good movies, like all people, they need stories that make them feel something.
Your thoughts on movies are always appreciated! Thanks for doing what you do.
same here
Yooo what’s up man.
@PapaStanimus He barely mentioned the main reason this remake sucks though.
Well even people like my parents have assumed that there’s nothing that animation can do that live action couldn’t, I think part of what made Pinocchio so scary for me was the fact that I was so used to animation being relatively positive, or at least could carry positive happiness more easily than live action. So having somethings so assumedly positive portray something so scary and dark was just horrifying!
I think for me, it's because I experience the world in live action every day, so I can see a fantastical element and think "Ah, that's inconsistent with the world I know"
But even if a piece of animation is exaggerated, it can still be consistent and everything looks equally strange, so it blends together in a way that my brain can commit to
"There's nothing that animation can do that live action can't" Well, can a paid actor manifest tweeting birds that fly around their head after getting hit in the face by a shovel? If you paint a tunnel onto a cliff face and tell Kevin Hart to run into it, will he run through the painted on tunnel? What if you blow pepper into Arnold Schwarzenegger's face, will he sneeze so loudly the buildings around him jump 6 meters into the air and land perfectly where they were?
@@jacobcox4565 well while you’d be using green screen for those scenes, you still have actors. That’s all I think these people were harping on 😅
@@RoarTheRapper But the point of my comment is that animation can do everything live action can't and your parents were objectively wrong.
2:45 "I want a go home to my momma" Good lord I forgot how sad and real that part felt.
I forgot how terrifying the original was until that point. I might have to watch it again.
I want to hop in and save that kid
I felt bad for sweet little Alexander. Poor little baby 😢💔
Bro same
That also reminds me of something that popped into my head: what eventually happened to the Coachman and how did the boys turn into donkeys in the first place? My theory is that he's actually an evil wizard that spread the curse of the island and when he saw that Pinocchio escaped, he turned into Monstruo and decided to punish Pinocchio worse than turning him into a donkey: trying to kill his father by becoming Monstro
Pinocchio being brightly colored in the animation surrounded by malevolent characters that were dull/dark colored always freaked me out as a kid
Thank you! You are the first reviewer to point out the bad lesson learned from his nose growing. That was the first thing I noticed. He's getting rewarded by lying and he knows it.
I think Shrek 2 did that a lot better.
There are two scenes in Disney films that haunt me, to this day:
1.) Lampwick turning into a donkey and screaming for his mom
2.) The impatient pheasant, in Bambi, getting killed as she flies away
Get quicksc0p3d
Yeah. And Clayton's death scene in Tarzan is also pretty dark.
Back when Disney wasn’t afraid of going Dark.
I’m in my thirties and I think about that pheasant when I feel anxious and want to do something impulsively.
The donkey transformation scene is the stuff of nightmares. That is more disturbing to me than anything I've seen in an actual horror film.
The original Pinocchio is one of the few films from Disney I would call perfect. It has the perfect balance between light hearted comedy and truly terrifying moments. I personally can't watch the film anymore because of how much the scenes from Pleasure Island absolutely terrify me. But there was charm, funny moments, sad moments, scary moments, and animation that holds up to this day. The music is also incredibly beautiful as evidenced by the Oscars they received for Best Song and Score.
It's a beautiful story of a little boy learning what it means to be human. To learn of what it means to be brave, truthful and unselfish as demonstrated when he risks everything, even his own safety to rescue his father from Monstruo. And he sacrifices his own life without any hesitation to save his father and thus, he is rewarded by being allowed to be human. It's beautiful, simple and a wonderful message to kids and adults alike as to what it means to be an honorable and unselfish person.
This film? It is completely devoid of all of that and I hate to say that given how much I love Tom Hanks, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Cynthia Erivo. But even they can't save this film.
The nose growing scene you mention is probably the prime example of what is wrong with this movie. The scene in the original was designed so Pinocchio could learn that lying was a bad thing. Then the Blue Fairy rewards him by letting him out of the cage. Pinocchio never then lies for the rest of the movie.
Why then in the hell would you use his nose as a way to escape the cage? What lesson does this actually demonstrate? What purpose does it show?
That lying saves your ass apparently
@@RazorO2Productions wich to be fair it can do in real life haha
Just be glad they didn't put a twerking scene in
I think the nose growing scene in the remake serves to show that Pinocchio can get out of tight spots on his own without the help of the Blue Fairy but, you're right, the scene in the animated classic illustrated the point of the hazards of lying, which is the whole point of that moment in the story.
The music was so good that it became the main theme of the Disney “Castle” classic intro - and it still is.
That little clip of the "I wanna go home to my momma's still send shivers down my spine
I think the scariest part of the original 1940 animated film is that nothing is resolved in regards to the hellhole that is Pleasure Island. Pinocchio manages to escape, yes, but the horror machine will keep running since none of the people in charge are brought to justice. I don't know if the novel ever gives it resolution, but it's downright scary to think that the kids that turned into donkeys will continue their slave labor until the day they die
That was the point. Telling kids to behave themselves and listen to their conscience because if they don’t, they may end up in a situation where nobody can save them.
It doesn't, but it is more traumatic. In the book, Pinocchio actually finishes turning into a donkey and is sold to a circus ringmaster. While performing tricks, he injures his leg and is thus sold to another man who wants to turn his donkey skin into a drum, so he throws him into the water to drown him. But while Pinocchio is underwater, the fairy sends a school of fish to eat his donkey skin off, thus making him a puppet again.
@@artbytesia Oh the missed oportunities! They should have included THAT in the live action remake. Instead they included the "lying is sometimes helpful" message....
@@Quotenwagnerianer that scene is included in Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019). Its an italian movie, dont know if its dubbed, dont know if its done well enough (clearly italy puts less budget than tha u.s) but it has some features from the original book that Disney never considered.
The sad thing is that people like the Coachman are out there and they get away with shit like this all the time with no consequences.
The fact we never see him again is just proof of that harsh reality and I honestly appreciate that.
In the original, Pinocchio chose to go with the charlatans and the lesson was not to go off with strangers.
In this one, he chose *not* to go with them, and to just go to school, only to be kicked out of school. Then seeing he can't do what's right, went off with the fox. The lesson: why bother doing the right thing or going to school? They're only going to hate you for being different. Might as well just join the gang and save yourself some time.
Ugh... this is some clumsy revisioning.
Someone in the writing or screenplay probably okayed this on the FIRST DRAFT.
@@battlion507 it's really sad because one of the script writers, Chris Weisz, also cowrote the screenplay for Disney's live-action Cinderella, which imo was fantastic.
Yeah, that's probably the main thing that makes this movie so bad, is that they undercut the main lessons of the story whether it was intentional or not.
"So remember kids, if you lie enough times, you'll eventually get what you want!"
Kicked out of school after only the first day?! WTF?!
@@colleen4ever Make it first hour.
I recommend the actual Italian one that came out just a couple of years ago. It's dark and quite bizarre, but then again so is the original story. The performances are really on point in that one, and for a low budget film the special effects are done really well.
Any adaptation seems better than this soulless movie. I'd even take pinnochio a true story over this. It's a blast to laugh at.
faaaatherrrrr
Really hope Del Toro's adaptation is good
It was a marvelous experience. The costumes were amazing and I loved how grim it was . The Netflix one seems great too
Yesss I love the recent Italian version!
Between these live action remakes and Kingdom Hearts, I'm convinced Disney genuinely believes they can just keep selling worse versions of their classic material forever.
Also, that "tell a lie to extend the nose and reach the key" beat is lifted directly from Shrek 2. I feel like that says it all right there.
And in the case of Shrek 2 Pinocchio was tied up so he had to help his friends somehow. The live action version Jimmy possibly could’ve found some way to get the keys. Also the kingdom hearts thing they don’t always adapt the worlds for batem and when they do I can understand it’s not gonna be as good. Although could be worse
Kingdom Hearts is a whole different ballpark though that’s only partly made by Disney lol.
Oh my god! You’re right, I was wondering where I’d seen it before 😂 the fact that the original stole from the parody is hilarious
Disney is a textbook example of why copyright laws should be limited to about 15 years.
The legal protections today are not helping to inspire Walt Disney to make another masterpiece. He's dead, along with any corporate drive to make a masterpiece.
We have patent/copyright laws to encourage creativity and cause people like Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison to flourish. We didn't make the laws so a godless corporation could become stinking rich. Movies like CGI Pinocchio do nothing positive for society. If you didn't make any money off the movie in 15 years, too bad. It's public domain now.
They did a study in Britain that said the optimum time for exclusive rights was about 15 years. After that the patent/copyright laws stifle creativity instead of nurturing it.
90% of Disney's "Vault" portfolio needs to be made public domain.
Along with the other corporations too. I'm not just getting on Disney.
@@protorhinocerator142 The other issue is Disney swallowing up all these other studios, they own almost everything now, that should never have been allowed to happen as it concentrates all the creativity into one corporate entity.
I never thought I would hear a reactor say "Sharktopus." If I had a drink, it would be all over my keyboard and screen.
When I watched the trailer I couldn't believe the art direction of this movie. It's supposedly a "live action" remake, but the art style of Pinocchio is straight out of a fully animated film
All CGI is animation. If this was Truly live action than Pinocchio would have been a real person playing a wooden puppet, Figaro would have been a real cat, cleo would have been a real gold fish, Monstro would have been a real whale. And Why did they make Monstro into a SEA MONSTER he's supposed to be a giant blue whale.
@@scottkendall7789 I am well aware of what CGI is, I work as a 3d Artist :P.
I said Pinocchio looks like a character out of 'fully' animated movie, not one to fit into a live action environment with real people.
I dont mind the art direction. the movie itself failed to convey the horrors of the original as jeremy said.
This film is just another example of infantilization that's prevalent in the Western society in modern times. Basically, we treat each generation as 5 years younger than they actually are. Thus, kids who were old enough to watch Pinocchio in the 1940s are now treated like little babies who'll cry over anything remotely scary. And this IS meant to be scary. It's a cautionary tale, meant to scare kids and make them careful. Besides that, film glances over each of its plot-points within minutes and there's no time to develop anything properly.
*Soulless corporation:* makes soulless movie to sell toys
*You:* this is the downfall of our society!!
Lol, okay.
@@vysharra You only confirm what he;s saying.
Have you actually seen Korean and Japanese media? The infantilization of people is as much a western exclusive as sushi.
say what you will about the original movie but at least it didn't show literal horseshit. Oh yeah we don't want to scare are kids..so let's show they what they really want..SHIT!
@@colleen4ever a corporation is not society
I saw the old animated movie, and yes, it did scare me as a child. The donkey transformation scene was especially traumatizing, and is forever seared into my memory.
"What's the point" is THE statement for ALL of Disney's live-action remakes.
If anything, they are a testament to cowardice cuz they wan't to distance themselves from potential controversy and adapting them for a spineless and soulless generation.
Soon they'll vault all the animations so the only version of the movies that are accessible are the soulless live-action ones.
Not happening, these remakes make people remind of the originals.
When The Lion King remake was released, I saw merchandise of the movie for sale again, but the original, not the remake.
I wonder what they're going to blame this film's failure on.
This is the million dollar question.
They'll blame it on marionettism.
Liberals probably always
probably twitter and cancel culture like they always do
WAYCISM
Honestly, it's a disgrace to me that this movie was implemented too poorly here. It's a good thing we're getting Guillermo del Toro's version of Pinnochio soon. Hopefully, it'll be better than this so-called “version.”
Oh... It will be
there's also the Lies of P game
Marxist Pinocchio? 🤣
It probably will but they're fundamentally different since del Toro's version is his own interpretation and not a Disney adaptation
I have completely run out of "give-a-shit" for anything related to Disney ( oh, what the hell, Hollywood) with their endless sequels, prequels, and reimagined franchises. I am waiting for Disney to start making animated remakes, of their live action remakes, of their original animated movies.
The stop motion version is so so good
I saw the original with my grandma when I was 7 years old. I spent a lot of time hanging onto her hand because it scared the hell out of me. The original was epic, with a lot of attention paid to detail. BTW, Honest John (the fox) was a parody of John Barrymore.
I’m a grown ass man, and the original still makes me uncomfortable.
Also thanks for hitting the main problem with these remakes on the head.
It ain't over yet... Not by a long decade..............
It was horrific.
Same here. My first cinema experience, terrified the life outa me as a kid. Had nightmares for weeks.
Ditto. Which is funny because I remember in high school someone held a picture of the Coachman’s demon smile against a picture of me smiling and went, they’re the same picture
Yeah I hated how the morality aspect of this movie was so immensely watered down to the point where there is no VALUE in doing anything "Good" because this movie is so FLAWED at showing the decision-making process and the choices of right and wrong, that the entire idea just falls flat on its face.
Geppetto really gets the short end of the stick here!!!
Not only does he lose his wife and child to death, he gets the puppet BUT WE DONT EVEN GET TO SEE HIM BE HAPPY AT THE END WHEN PINOCCHIO BECOMES A REAL BOY. THEY TEASE IT. WE DONT EVEN GET THE HAPPINESS FROM GEPPETTO. Its such bullshit. That man sold ALL his clocks to buy a tiny shitty wooden boat that gets destroyed in 5 seconds and we dont even get to see his response to Pinocchio becoming real. Its bullshit.
Also, all Pinocchio did on Pleasure Island was drink Root Beer and play pool. He cant play Hookey from school because they kicked him out.
So its like....if youre different in school you get kicked out???
Drinking Root Beer and playing Pool is BAD so I get turned into a DONKEY????
It made NO fucking sense because Pinocchio never CHOSE to do anything BAD. He didnt drink. He didnt smoke. He didnt make BAD decisions, he just simply DIDNT KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING.
Man this movie SUCKED. XD
Morality isnt important in America anymore
The woke made this movie. If REAL humans had made this movie, it would have been epic. But since the woke made it, it's SHIT, just like all the other shitty shit Hollywood has been putting out in the last few years.
It was a rushed production for sure.
@@zenmasterorwhatever it started production 2 years ago, right after Tom Hanks finished his work on “Elvis.” Before that, it had been in development for 5 years.
The lack of moral choice for Pinnochio definitely hurt the movie. Here, he seems to clearly know the difference between right and wrong at all times, so why even have the cricket? He also only ends up at Pleasure Island because he was abducted. So why was he in danger of turning into a donkey at all?
I love you Jeremy
1:50 honestly a top tier joke
Got an audible laugh from me, well done Jeremy :}
I think the quality we see in these live action updates is less about trying to make a good new version of it but moreso them protecting their works from falling into public domain. The quality of these movies definitely reflects a rush job in most cases so they can get it out the door and not lose their property. Winnie the Pooh is a perfect example. The minute that hit public domain, someone snatched it up for a grindfest horror flick adaptation. IP holder or not; that's potentially damage to Disney's brands and I would have a hard time believing they're ok with that
It’s a fascinating story about how Disney losing Oswald the Rabbit led to Disney being the reason Copyright law in America is so screwed up
That is exactly the reason why they do these soulless cash grabs
Never actually thought if it that way, just went with the easy cash grab. That's still true but maybe not the main reason now.
Aren’t the stories Disney has made films of already public domain? Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin (but under a different name from an old story)
While probably true that's also the problem, because it's not Disney's to worry about someone else doing exactly what they did in the first place, which is use someone else's creation to make their own interpretation. I'm always so happy when an IP goes back public because if gives all of us more opportunities to experience something amazing. I think Disney has proven with Star Wars alone they aren't the end all be all of quality entertainment
Disney - gone from being creators of magic to the destroyers of everything they touch
Facts
Because of garbage management, and greed
@@darthcinema4262 I agree. Is it any wonder Bob Chapek was booed when he entered D23? Plus, even Bob Iger now regrets choosing Bob Chapek. If I were to pick someone to be in charge of Disney, it would be Kevin Feige as his contributions to Marvel would've worked out well for Disney, too
@@saulthechicanootaku I now dread the thought of Kathleen Kennedy being in charge someday
@@saulthechicanootaku >Is it any wonder Bob Chapek was booed when he entered D23?
Really? Would love to see some footage of that.
My only issue is they made too many changes from the original that really didn’t need to be changed. Especially the ending from Monstro onwards. Pinocchio played a big key part in that section of the story, that in the animation we went from sad tears to happy tears. But this didn’t give that same feel.
The classic animation really did freak me out as a kid. From the kid turning into a Donkey to the sounds of the Whale sounding like some distorted Xbox Live microphone in game chat. Live actions can never hope to do it as good
The ending was such a huge let down. I was waiting the entire movie for Pinocchio to turn into a real boy. Even though I knew the movie wasn’t that great, I thought to myself “at least I have the ending to look forward to”. And then bam. Oh we don’t know if he became a real boy. What was that shit.
I had the same thought.....I watched the whole movie and I was waiting for Pinocchio to change into a real boy at the end and I didn't see it, so I was quite disappointed. And I mentioned it here on UA-cam on another video and somebody commented on that video that Pinocchio does change into a real boy at the end, I didn't believe them and I was about to call them a liar, but I went back and rewatched the ending to this movie and sure enough, He did change into a real boy. But they did it so subtly that you would miss it if you weren't really paying attention. So, to you, I say, Go back and rewatch the ending of this movie and pay extremely CLOSE attention to the very end when Pinocchio and Geppetto are walking out of the cave. As they are walking Pinocchio changes. But you have to pay close attention to it or you will miss it.
"that shit" is Disney remaking all of their classic movies, because they got nothing else better to do than suck up all that extra cash....
........ And they have about half a dozen more movies on the way just like this one!!!!!!
Spoiler
If you look closely, he actually becomes a real boy. His joints and wood become one n fleshy.
@@scottkendall7789 ooo, we’ll if you didn’t tell me I would have no idea he changed. I thought they were just following original source material or something. Wish it were more in your face though, because that could have been a really heartfelt moment in the movie
Old Disney movies were dark as hell. Like seriously, have you guys seen the beauty and the beast, or even Bambi? But you know what? I think I loved them more for those darker moments. For a child like I was, those Disney movies felt REAL, serious, they were the good stuff. Now I think that most movies for kids (including modern disney) are terribly condescending. They assume that kids are dumb and they can't take some darker tones and that's ridiculous for a lot of kids.
Even when I had nightmares after watching a movie (Jurassic Park for example), I loved it and the nightmares gave me another chance to learn how to beat fear, to know myself a little better, and to grow as a person. And nightmares were exciting. In my adult life I miss them some times.
Ok, this has devolved quite a lot but the message is: Nightmares are good.
Walt Disney animated movies never messed with my mind. The only movies that ever messed with my mind are Halloween and Friday the thirteenth. I can still watch them with no problem, but, Going outside after dark became a problem because, if I am by myself, I get the feeling that somebody is standing in the darkness watching me, waiting for the right moment to pounce on me. Disney animated movies did do that to me.
@@scottkendall7789 Fear is very subjective I suppose. Kids with big imagination don't need much to get their minds affected by anything. I started watching shadows moving everywhere.
Studying psychology I got to know that there are some "ancestral fears", so to say. Fears that repeat over generations in people with specific personality traits. For example, the fear of small creatures hiding in a room or a house, waiting to attack you, is something extremely typical in people with tendency to anxiety. In those nightmares they hide sometimes but most of the times they search for the creatures, which is strange if you are afraid of them, but that's how you deal with anxiety: Forcing anything that is waiting for you to happen as soon as possible to make it finish.
I don't remember what was the association with fear to have big strong murderers watching at you from the shadows, to be honest. I never was afraid from those and it's weird because those are pretty realistic in my opinion. But to my kid's mind, a door was enough to stop any man.
Dinosaurs, magic creatures, aliens, and unknown things crawling in the dark hallway that connected with my room as a kid, those were the kind of things that kept me awake.
Now as an adult I genuinely miss that imagination. The ability to see all kind of impossible creatures around me, the strong feelings associated, etc... as an adult most of the time I feel nothing. The world loses its scent, it becomes a movie, something you watch as it passes through your eyes, I will never remember most of the stuff that will happen today.
I truly miss nightmares.
The animated Pinocchio was the only Disney film where the villains succeeded. The coachman trafficked children as jackasses and all Pinocchio could do was escape. Same with honest John and Gideon. They got their payday. The voice acting and sound effects were just on another level in the animated film. Lampwick’s transformation, the coachman’s red face, Stromboli’s voice and threats to Pinocchio. It’s just horrifying.
Fun fact about the orange juice analogy, I was looking at bottles of orange juice at the grocery store yesterday and noticed all of the "light" or "lite" varieties are literally watered down orange juice. I even bought little single serve bottles of each to compare, and sure enough if you add enough water to regular OJ, it'll reach the exact same color and flavor as the light version. I'm certain the difference in nutritional value on the back between both kinds can be used to calculate the exact amount of water used to dilute it.
All I'm trying to say is that watered down orange juice is a real thing that real people are buying, and also orange juice doesn't go that well with edibles
The Pinocchio character from the Shrek series is the only “live action” Pinocchio we need 👍🏻
The OG shrek had better CG than this
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There was also the Jonathan Taylor Thomas live-action Pinocchio, whose puppet was designed by Jim Henson.
Shrek's Pinocchio using "Lawer Speech" is one of the best things to grace cinema.
I remember watching the original when I was a kid… but was thinking I don’t remember being scared or anything but when you played that scene with the kid going “I want to go home to my mommy.” it trigged something in long forgotten memory.
Yes, the original has a few scary parts, but it’s by no means terrifying lol. In fact it teaches lots of lessons to kids about strangers, and being fooled easily.
You nailed the Space Camp robot voice @5:13. Bravo.
The biggest dissapointment I had was that they cut out "Little Wooden Head" which is my favourite song in the original animated movie. If Disney was really commited to make a live action adaptation of the animated movie, why the hell they cut out that?
And add 30 mins of filler too
Honestly, I was disappointed that they cut out "Give a Little Whistle" too.
They keep removing iconic songs in favour of crap no one asked for. All the songs, especially under the sea better be in little mermaid
@@Gattsu_the_struggler I can bet anything you want it's gonna be a worse, watered down, soulless version of the original.
Ain't no way any new iteration shall surpass the 1940 classic, but I'm looking forward to del Toro's interpretation
I had never seen Mulan and decided to purposefully wait for the live-action. I watched the live action first and thought it was pretty good.... until I watched the animated Mulan. The Live action movies just can not compare.
I grew up on the old animated version and I loved it. I think it's the reason why cat's became my favourite animal, have you seen Figaro ? So adorable.
That Middle finger up had me laughing
I haven't watched the animated Pinocchio because it traumatized me when I was little 😅😅 but I was hoping that the new one would be just as dark with that same feelings. I guess you saved us whatever the run time of the movie was. Which is why I watch you lol so thanks!!
I expect the guillermo del toro version that is coming out soon to deliver on all that darkness masterfully.
You might as well revisit the original. As someone who rewatched it today, it holds up extremely well and the animation somehow remains extremely beautiful.
@@cheshirecat1611 same here! I expect it.
@@elvewizzy that was my experience. I was young and had nightmares after watching it. Plus my parents were the type to turn everything into a "lesson" so that didn't help. Bambie was sad there's a big difference between them.
It was so long ago and I was very young so I don't have many memories of it . I also remember how much I loved Song of the South and the wonderful performance of James Baskett and I never saw the crows' song in Dumbo as anything other than having a Black sound because crows are Black and it was a highlight of the film.
The original Pinocchio movie used to scare me as a kid, but not anymore! It's one of my favorite Disney classics and I looked forward to seeing this movie. It could have been more of a decent remake, there were some bizarre changes that disappointed me or upset me. Like when Honest John the fox and Gideon the cat didn't return to trick Pinocchio again like in the original. I would have loved to see them interact with Luke Evans portraying the Coachman in the Red Lobster Inn! Really didn't care for how they made Monstro into a weird sea monster, they should have either still kept him a whale or simply just change him into a giant great white shark. Not to mention the very lazy ending! Anyway, some changes I really did enjoy was like how they made the Coachman's dark and mysterious minions into smoke monsters and Stromboli going to jail!
'To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best' - Kreia.
1:36 Gotta love that subtle flip-off😂. Disney has really been dropping the ball on these live action-remakes.
Came to the comments for this :))
had to scroll wayyy to far for this
I noticed that ONE 🖕😆
None of these Disney Live Action movies will ever be held in the same regards as the timeless animated versions. Which goes back to your question, "Why even make them in the first place?" Why not just release the animated movies to theaters again?
I watch this with my nephew, and we lost internets in it fast. It wasn't until the puppet show that he started to show interest. When I put on the original Pinocchio on, he watched the whole thing with full interests, and he's only 7 years old.
I still feel like Christopher Robin is the only live action film they’ve made so far that didn’t feel totally unnecessary. Like yeah, the film is basically just Hook with Pooh characters, but at least it’s not a completely unnecessary and watered down retread of an already established film. It told a (mostly) original story instead of being a near beat for beat remake. I wish they’d do that more.
Does that even count as a remake? I feel like it's a continuation of the Winnie The Pooh franchise because we see Christopher Robin as a grown man with a wife and daughter and Jim Cummings being brought back as the voice of Pooh and Tigger!
I actually quite liked Dumbo for this very reason tbh?
Like.. I completely get why they had to remove so many elements from Dumbo (It was racist as heck after all). but that meant they were actually forced to come up with a lot of new elements etc that for me at least made it a completely different story as opposed to the original but with lots of CGI
Cinderella in my opinion expanded on her as a protagonist and give the prince real charm and personality. Is my favorite remake
@@frankiegalindo980 Yeah, it's more of a sequel than a remake. But a good one!
Christopher Robin wasn’t bad. Not blue ray worthy, but a good time no alcohol required.
for a second I thought this was the guillermo del toro pinoccho and was schocked, then I saw it was the disney one. what a relief! (cause I have high expectations for the guillermo del toro version)
I loved the part where Geppetto moved to Greece, so he could have a close relationship to the real boy.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you for mentioning the sound design of the original monstro. It was utterly terrifying. Something about just that brutal tonality almost reminded me of that creepypasta about " the bloop". Who would have thought that octopus mosasaur the new one would end up infinitely less scary than a charcoal rendered whale from 1940. You're right. The devil is absolutely in the details.
1:36, Jeremy’s 1 second review of this live action adaptation. Heh.
I grew up on the old Pinocchio, to this day that scene when the kid turns into a donkey hauntes me.
LMFAO because there is nothing scary about that movie.
I watched Snow, White and Pinocchio with my Sicilian grandfather who saw them both in the theaters. And I think he would have been like 17 when Pinocchio came out, he might have been in the army when Pinocchio came out, But it was really interesting seeing him perk up and watch this movie from his childhood.
And do a certainly said, childhood in the Great depression Was that frightening. The Mafia was in his city, his stepfather would go to the Italian American center. All around the countryside were mafia run gambling parlors. Someplace like pleasure Island was around the corner if you knew where to look.
Even watching Snow White and the seven dwarfs, The dwarfs were a lot like somebody you would have met back in the '30s. Just hardworking characters who swung up Pickaxe for a living.
Even though Pinocchio is kind of northern Italy, I'm sure that having an Italian story was pretty cool for my grandfather.
I love how there was a potential Pinocchio animated movie review hidden under this one. Would you consider reviewing more of the classic animated movies, Jeremy? Maybe even some of the non-Disney ones, like An American Tale, Prince of Egypt and the like?
I remember begging for this animated movie on VHS when I was a kid. Then I watched it over and over to prove it was a solid investment. It lead to my folks purchasing many, many more Disney movies. Then I moved out and did not take any with me as DVD's had become all the rage.
Still got mines lol, all boxed up and going nowhere.
To be completely fair to the material, and to give credit where it’s due; It’s not as bad as Jeremy is making it out to be.
It’s actually worse.
If Lion King remake ruined your childhood, this will rub it in.
I actually think that the Lion King remake was still far worse than this remake. Lion King remake has the characters with just no facial expressions which makes the movie so boring whereas Pinocchio was really mediocre but it's still have Jiminy Cricket that they really did a fine job with it
Mulan is the worst live action remake so far.
@@memecliparchives2254 Mulan tried and failed… but it tried…
@@memecliparchives2254 There is a Mulan Movie that is not a Disney movie and it's pretty good. I have both the Disney and non Disney version.
@@4deleDaz33m Well at least the Lion King live action sort of had Timon, Pumbaa, Zazu and Shenzi. Live action Mulan had literally no one to root for.
The whole donkey thing always freaked me out. Was it to the salt mines and then off to the meat market in an Asian country later?! Lol My favorite part of the original movie was the first few minutes in the home. Cute little goldfish and wood carvings. Once he becomes a real boy the movie just gets crazy and creepy
The fact that a 30-something (I'm guessing) reviewer can cite an 82 year old movie as being a formative event in his childhood speaks to the power and timeless nature of the classic Disney animated features (defined as "during Walt's lifetime" i.e., up through Jungle Book). The fact that this one is forgotten at T+1 days, speaks just as powerfully about the current company.
I feel like you just described every Disney movie to come out in the last 8-10 years -- soulless drivel churned out by robots.
Nice to see big corporate companies uniting the universe through the power of hate with Rings of Power and Pinocchio
Rings of Power is totally undeserved in my opinion...in think it's great and very similar to Peter Jackson's work... But that's just me i guess.
@@thelennon07 I totally agree, lots of the hate has been mostly online and loud. Everyone I know IRL has really enjoyed it so far. I wouldn't say it's perfect but it's a lot better than UA-cam and reddit made it seem. People were hating on it months before it even came out lol.
Here here!
Those old animated Disney classics really are scary at times. Like, some of the images in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves stick with me to this day.
I genuinely had no idea they even made a live action Pinocchio
I recently had a convo with a friend about childhood movies and when I mentioned how much Pinocchio scared the shit out of me she gave me this LOOK. THANK YOU JEREMY JAHNS I AM VINDICATED.
your friend was justified in giving you that look. There is nothing terrifying about Pinocchio. I would have given you a look also if I had been the one you told.
I don’t man, there’s some scary ass weird shit in the original. Give it a rewatch
That nose gag is the same basic formula they used in Shrek 2. Shrek: the franchise known for roasting Disney properties was copied by Disney without a hint of Irony. Sublime.
I agree the Original Film Terrified me as well. Excellent reView as always Mr. Jahns.
1:36 I see what you did there Jeremy, very smooth lol
1:35 We did not make this bad movie, Jeremy.
There is no need to flip us off.
I watched Pinocchio once when I was a kid and I still remember it as if I'd watched it far more than that. I had nightmares about stranger danger and donkeys and that God awful whale sounds for weeks. I remember rushing through kingdom hearts to get out of there too. That was miserable.
Could we get some of your blogs again for next year? they had a random Slice of Life feel to it.
The fact that this movie had a budget of only $35 million in this day and age despite being a remake of one of Disney's truly classic movies is a pretty good indication of how much Disney cared... If they don't give a damn why should anyone else?
That pleasure island shit from the original movie still freaks me the hell out. Considering that the movie never answers if the boys get away is horrific.
Like, of all the things they could've done in the remake, giving resolution for the Pleasure Island kids would be a change I think we'd all accept
It is also the only old school Disney movie where NONE of the villains get any comeuppance for their deeds. They all get away without punishment. Which actually is a very powerful message. Sometimes life isn’t always fair like that and all you can do is really try to be the best self you can be.
Let's not forget that The Coachman gets away unscathed. After he drops the kids off at pleasure Island and hauls them off to the salt mines that's it. I guess we're to assume that he just keeps it going even after Pinocchio changes back. And what about all those other little boys? A torturous life of servitude.
I’m glad I actually got this notification when it was uploaded.
JJ my main man! Another quality review!
I’m not going to watch this movie. I never liked the Pinocchio story, was never a fan of the Disney animation or any other version of the story.
But as always, you are very entertaining in the way you present the review. This is the reason I follow you! Thanks!
Yes, I grew up with the animated version and it didn't scare me because I already knew the dark original story from kindergarten.
I grew up with the original darker book versions of Disney's animations. 🙂
Lol Jeremy subtly giving the middle finger at 1:36
The Monstro scenes in the original terrified me for a long time. When I would swim in really deep water, I would imagine what it would feel like, for something like that to swim underneath me. The pure fear, of some massive leviathan coming up slowly, from the depths below you.
Jeremy that Robert impression was dope 🔥💪🏽
Jermey love your work! Love watching your videos. So bleep this movie I agree. Have you seen SLC Punk? It’s an oldie bit of a cult film at this point but definitely worth bringing attention to. Regardless can’t wait for the next video!
100% agree with Jeremy on this one. This version really sucked 😞 it felt so lifeless
Yeah, it seemed a little wooden to me......
@@scottkendall7789 Nailed it 😂😂
Just wait until Live action Little Mermaid comes out 😒🤢🤮
Pinocchio scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Especially the Pleasure Island part. Plus the whole concept of a doll coming alive just freaked me out
instead of Pinocchio being naive and lacking moral guidance- which is the entire point of his character- it's now framed like he had no choice but to take Honest John's offer and join Stromboli's show because the option to go to school was taken from him.
Hollywood remakes its old movies because it has run out of ideas, but they are also revising all of these films because our culture has been subject to a rapid transformation, one which is incompatible with most of it's classic works
I think about this problem whenever I'm watching a new TV show or movie. It's not what's on the surface that I have a problem with, like diversity or other things. The problem is much deeper than that: companies like Disney or HBO that don't care about their own history, and they expect you to care about their new toy just because it's shiny.