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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIt's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new Pinocchio. Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden.
- 25New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe most bizarre cinematic experience of 2002. So misguided as to be utterly mystifying, this shameless vanity project is almost surreal enough to be entertaining. Almost.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannBig, opulent and frequently wretched, Pinocchio is so bad that its American distributor, Miramax, opened it on Christmas Day with scant advertising and no advance press screening.
- 10The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAn unintended gift to midnight-movie programmers and students of the bizarre, Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio could have become a "Howard The Duck" -- or "Battlefield Earth"-like synonym for cinematic miscalculation, were its title not already so familiar.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis faithful, humorless, altogether insufferable (and, by all accounts, hastily dubbed) version of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairytale about the trouble-causing puppet who longs to be human is the director's lifelong dream.
- 10Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBenigni's Pinocchio is meant to be adorable, but he comes off as less an enchanted puppet than as a harmlessly deranged middle-aged man prancing about in the kind of froufrou cream-colored pantsuit that Dinah Shore retired to her back closet in 1977.
- 0New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoLoud, crass and full of slapstick humor that the Three Stooges would be ashamed of. And it is almost completely lacking in charm and nuance.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovBy film's end I was fantasizing that Peter Stormare would drop by with his "Fargo" wood-chipper in tow, but it was not to be. Appalling.