I heard so much about this movie. Directed by the amazing Mexican Director Guillermo del Toro. He presents a new version of the classical Pinocchio' s tale. This is an adaptation of the Italian tale of Pinocchio. It is supposed to be a story that we haven't heard before or at least not as much. The movie stayed in the Top movies of Netflix for many days. Most have a positive review and even called it a masterpiece. Well, I really liked it but maybe people overhype it. It was really good but not as great or unique as many claimed. The art is different and looked great. It is an stop-motion animated musical fantasy film. The cast was also amazing and the movie expressed deep feelings. A truly emotional and beautiful film. Full of moral lessons and helps us reflect about life and death. The movie does an amazing job in fluently telling the story. Each event made sense and were a consequence of what had just happened. But again it wasn't as unique as many claimed. This story reminded me A Lot about the latest Pinocchio film from Disney. It had so many similarities and some events were just explained in a different manner but still happened in both. The story of Geppetto's actual son is rarely explained. But both movies gave us an insight of the real son and how Pinocchio came to life. Maybe Pinocchio Disney version lack a bit of order because some events felt a bit rushed and didn't really made sense. But overall both told us a similar Pinocchio tale. Another huge similarity was Pinocchio acceptance. I feel this is a modern idea that happens either for Inclusion or accepting each person for who they are. The classical tale ended with the Wooden Boy becoming a Real Human Boy. It was some sort of gift for Geppetto and in way the prize or resolution for Pinocchio for being a good boy. But now both version decided to keep him as a Wooden Boy as a sign of accepting Pinocchio for who he is. Not pretending to be the real Geppetto's son he lost. For me, I feel that was unnecessary. We know it is a fictional story and returning the real boy or making him a real boy would have been as emotional as keeping him made of wood. But modern times kind of force that on new films. But well, this Guillermo del Toro Pinocchio went further and told us what happen to everyone as time kept on passing. Meanwhile the latest Disney Pinocchio let us choose. It was left to interpretation wether he became a real boy or stayed made of wood. For me both movies were great. Some had better things than the other but both were great movies. I not much of a fan of watching musicals and both have their musical moments. I feel Guillermo del Pinocchio music were more sentimental while Disney Pinocchio were more Powerful.
Now story based there were small exaggerations. But since it was a fictional film it is ok. Like the first bomb scene, Im sure that bomb should have cause a bigger blast. Or the SeaMonster. That is another similarity on both Pinocchio films. Somehow both decided to remove the classical whale and added a Sea Monster instead. Not sure but, maybe it was change to avoid falling into Biological inaccuracies when staying alive inside the Monster? Not sure but maybe. Another curious event was the Cricket being smashed hard so much but didn't died. Another was when they beat up the monkey, swimming with 1 hand, sea mines, fire scenes etc. But they were small details that really didn't affect the story. Overall it was a great movie that I would definitely recommend. (By the way it would be interesting if Guillermo del Toro made Edgar Allen Poe stories on this format. I feel they would be amazing) I would definitely recommend this movie. I will rate this movie 8.0. The story was told fluently, the emotions were very strong, the moral lessons were great and it was a nice stop-motion animated musical fantasy film.
Rating: 8.0
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