Jack Housden

I really anticipated this film and felt a little bit off about it. POSITIVES: Geppetto is so wonderful, back story explained and felt like the story would've been based better on himself entirely. Opening and endings are really clean and understandable. Schopenhauer living inside Pinocchio, philosopher with similarities to Buddhism's "nihilism". Animation and settings are lovely. NEGATIVES: Pinocchio's voice and personality is bad. Real bad. I felt like I walked away from the film with an alter dimension personality ruining a great setting film. Personality was obnoxious, yes I get it, it's meant to be that way but the main character to be hated and to never really see why it's overcome hardships. The hardships did not feel believable. War scene was too long and felt completely out of place.

I'm rather confused, and I don't think that's a good thing. The first episode is very well done. Roots of the story were placed and I felt as if each character belonged. I only wish the whole movie was placed around this family with an extended story. Animation is charming and has a Tim Burton vibe to it. For the second episode, I could only bare through this. Felt a bit too messy for me but felt like I came away confused. Not the type of confused as in multiple scenarios proposed and picking one, but rather thinking what on earth did I just watch. Story had no roots. Dancing bugs made no sense. House didn't feel powerful or mysterious. Animation cannot be faulted though. I had to turn off the third episode 12 minutes in. I couldn't bare it much longer. Did not understand why animals were people at all still, no backstory. From the time I watched, it was drawn out. Personally I would highly recommend the first episode but cut the rest. It left me more disappointed, as the animation is so rare nowadays and magical but the execution of the stories and characters (in the last 2 episodes) was grim.