Joyless, idiotic, annoying, heavy-handed, visually atrocious, and often downright creepy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 18, 2019

Live-action dubbed puppet story is creepy and lacks humor.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 22, 2012

| Original Score: D | Apr 4, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | May 2, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2007

The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.

| Jan 5, 2007

Head-slapping, what-the-f*ck-is-this-for-real? trippiness.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2005

Like Robin Williams on speed, [Roberto Benigni] darts about the screen showing less restraint than a shark in blood-stained water.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 1, 2003

Better this log-headed Pinocchio had been burned at the stake.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 15, 2003

Every good actor needs to do his or her own Hamlet. For Benigni it wasn't Shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but Pinocchio. It might as well have been Problem Child IV.

| Apr 24, 2003

This overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary. Hmmm...might I suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2003

Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio, complete with receding hairline, weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice.

| Jan 16, 2003

The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 10, 2003

Seriously, rent the Disney version.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Jan 9, 2003

Adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like Pinocchio. As for children, they won't enjoy the movie at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2003

It's a frightful vanity film that, no doubt, pays off what debt Miramax felt they owed to Benigni.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Jan 7, 2003

If you saw Benigni's Pinocchio at a public park, you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 7, 2003

Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 6, 2003

What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2003