Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, whose first collaboration was the 1994 smash hit Forrest Gump, reunite for the fourth time with Pinocchio, Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its animated classics, in this case the studio’s ground-breaking 1940 film.
The results, mixing CGI and live-action, are a mixed bag of boyish fear and yearning, sentiment, frightening action, tedious exposition and middling music by Zemeckis regular Alan Silvestri.
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Summary:
Not the master of puppets you were hoping for.