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Starring: Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro, Burn Gorman

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Netflix stop-motion animated musical fantasy directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. Pinocchio (2022) is a dark, twisted retelling of the famous Carlo Collodi fairytale about a wooden puppet who comes to life and dreams of becoming a real boy. However, when Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) comes to life, he turns out not to be that nice of a boy, creating mischief and playing mean tricks, but he eventually learns a few lessons.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'Lies are found out immediately because they are like long noses, visible to all but the teller of the lie. And the more you lie, the more it grows.' - Geppetto (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Cricket: By the time Master Geppetto made Pinocchio, he had already lost a son. Now this was quite a few years before my time, but I learnt the story. And then it became my story.


 

Cricket: Geppetto lost Carlo during the Great War. They’d been together only ten years. But it was as if Carlo had taken the old man’s life with him.


 

Geppetto: All good things require patience.


 

Cricket: [referring to Geppetto and Carlo] They wanted for nothing. All they needed was each other’s company.


 

Geppetto: [to Carlo] Lies, my dear boy, are found out immediately because they are like long noses, visible to all but the teller of the lie. And the more you lie, the more it grows.


 

Geppetto: When one life is lost, another must grow.


 

Cricket: [after Carlo is killed by a falling bomb in the church] Geppetto never left his side. And that was that. He worked very little. He ate even less. And the church’s crucifix remained unfinished. The years passed. The world moved on, but Geppetto did not.


 

Cricket: And this is where I come in. You see, I was a writer. And for years, I’d been looking for the ideal conditions to set my illustrious, fascinating life story to paper. Until, at long last, I found it. My sanctuary. Home. Here I could write my memoirs. And what a tale it would be. I had lived in a barrister’s fireplace in Sardinia, sailed on the Adriatic in a fishing boat, nested one Perugian winter with an acclaimed sculptor. Stridulations of My Youth by Sebastian J. Cricket.

 

'In this world, you get what you give.' - Wood Sprite (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Geppetto: I dreamed of you, Carlo. I dreamed you were right back here with me. My son. If only I could have you back.


 

Cricket: I watched the old man weep. And it moved me. And it turns out that I wasn’t the only one watching him. In my many wanderings on this earth, I’ve learned that there are old spirits living in the mountains, in the forests, who rarely involve themselves in the human world. But on occasion, they do.


 

Geppetto: I want you back, Carlo. Right here! With me! Why won’t you listen to my prayers? Why?


 

Cricket: [as Geppetto is cutting down the tree he’s living in] What in my antennae?


 

Cricket: It’s a house of horrors!

 

'You must try your best, and that's the best anybody can do.' - Cricket (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Wood Sprite: Little wooden boy, may you rise with the sun and walk the earth.


 

Cricket: Excuse me. Can I help you? This is my home we’re talking about. May I ask, who on earth are you?
Wood Sprite: On earth? A guardian. I care for the little things, the forgotten things, the lost ones.
Cricket: Well, I am Sebastian J. Cricket, homeowner. And I have every right to be consulted about your schemes and machinations regarding my property.


 

Wood Sprite: Well, since you already live in the heart of the wooden boy, perhaps you can help me.
Cricket: Help you what?
Wood Sprite: To watch over him. Guide him to be good.
Cricket: I’m not a governess, madam. I’m a novelist, a raconteur, currently immersed in writing my memoirs.
Wood Sprite: Well, in this world, you get what you give.


 

Wood Sprite: Take on this responsibility, and I will grant you one wish.
Cricket: And that could be anything? Anything at all? The publication of my book? Fame? Fortune?
Wood Sprite: Anything.
Cricket: Oh. Maybe I can help. I’ll try my best, and that’s the best anyone can do. That’s rather clever, isn’t it?

 

'What's a burden?' - Pinocchio, 'It's something painful you must carry, even though it hurts you very much.' - Cricket Click To Tweet

 

Wood Sprite: Little wooden boy made of pine, we shall call you Pinocchio. May you rise with the sun, and wander the earth, and bring joy and company to that poor heartbroken man. Be his son. Fill his days with light so he’ll never be alone.


 

Geppetto: What is this? What kind of sorcery?
Pinocchio: You wanted me to live. You asked for me to live.
Geppetto: Who are you?
Pinocchio: My name is Pinocchio! I’m your son!
Geppetto: You are not my son! Don’t come near me!


 

Cricket: You must obey your papa.
Pinocchio: Obey?
Cricket: To do as you’re told!
Pinocchio: But I don’t want to obey!
Cricket: Well, you must try your best, and that’s the best anybody can do.


 

Geppetto: It’s a puppet to entertain!
Candlewick: If he’s a puppet, where are his strings?
Podesta: That’s true. Who controls you, wooden boy?
Geppetto: Of course, I control him.
Pinocchio: Who controls you?


 

Geppetto: He’s a puppet. Just a puppet!
Pinocchio: No, I’m not. I’m made of flesh, and bone, and meaty bits! I’m a real boy!

 

'The one thing that makes human life precious and meaningful, you see, is how brief it is.' - Death (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Pinocchio: Papa, why did my nose grow today?
Geppetto: You lied, Pinocchio. And a lie is plain to see as your nose.
Pinocchio: And the more you lie, the more it grows.


 

Podesta: This abnormal boy lacks discipline. But he seems strong, sturdy, made of good Italian pine.
Geppetto: Oh, very good pine, yes. Not perfect, you see, but he means well.


 

Pinocchio: Look! I’m on fire! Yay!


 

Pinocchio: Who’s Carlo?
Cricket: Carlo was a boy. Geppetto lost him many years ago.
Pinocchio: Where did he put him? How can you lose a whole person?
Cricket: I mean, he died, Pinocchio. He’s no longer alive.
Pinocchio: Is that a bad thing?
Cricket: Yes. It’s a great burden for a father to lose a child so young.
Pinocchio: What’s a burden?
Cricket: It’s something painful you must carry, even though it hurts you very much.

 

'Sometimes fathers feel despair like everybody else. And they say things, things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that they never really meant it at all.' - Cricket (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Cricket: I wrote a lot that night. I had so much to say. Not about my own life, for a change, but about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons. And about loss and love. And for that one evening, at least, we were, all of us, blissfully oblivious.


 

Count Volpe: A living puppet? Are you absolutely sure? This could get us to the top again! This could make us kings again!


 

Geppetto: [to Pinocchio] People are sometimes afraid of things they don’t know. But they’ll get to know you and like you.

 

'Life can bring great suffering. And eternal life can bring eternal suffering.' - Death (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Pinocchio: [to Geppetto] Then I will be just like Carlo! I will obey and go to school, and I’ll be the very, very best at whatever they do there. I’ll make you proud!


 

Count Volpe: Ah! We have found him! Look, Spazzatura! Our miracle! Our sensation! Our star!
Pinocchio: Who? Me?
Count Volpe: Yes, mon etoile! I am Count Volpe! You have been chosen! Come partake in the fun, fanciful, carefree carnival life as the star of my puppet show!

 

'You never know how long you have with someone until they're gone.' - Death (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Count Volpe: I can see you’re intrinsically an intellectual! But then now, book learning cannot compare to witnessing the wide world with one’s own eyes from atop the glorious stage. You shall see all of the nations of the earth for yourself as they bow at your feet.
Pinocchio: My brand new feet!


 

Cricket: [as he gets smashed by a book] Oh, the pain. Life is such hideous pain.

 

'What happens, happens. And then, we are gone.' - Cricket (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Podesta: Obviously, the puppet is quite a dissident. An independent thinker, I’d say.


 

Pinocchio: I don’t like being called a puppet.
Count Volpe: My boy. Puppets are le meilleur qui soit! The tops! Lift your arm. Puppets are well respected in every station of life.
Pinocchio: But I thought it was best to be a normal boy.
Count Volpe: Oh, no, no, no. People love puppets.

 

'My child. I was trying to make you someone you were not. So don't be Carlo, or anyone else. Be exactly who you are. I love you exactly as you are.' - Geppetto (Pinocchio) Click To Tweet

 

Count Volpe: You are a wonder. A miracle. They’ll love you!
Pinocchio: Who?
Count Volpe: Les Idiots! The wonderful children of the world. Lift your leg. Everyone shall love you and call your name. Pinocchio. Pinocchio! Pinocchio!

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Cricket: [as he gets stepped on] One nightmare after another.


 

Pinocchio: Papa! I’m a star, Papa! A star! They love me! They accept me!
Geppetto: Enough of this nonsense!


 

Count Volpe: [to Spazzatura] You simian simpleton!


 

Count Volpe: [as they’re fighting over Pinocchio] Unhand my carissimo, you carousing kleptomaniac!
Geppetto: Do not touch him! I made him!
Count Volpe: And I discovered him!
Geppetto: He’s not your puppet. He’s mine!


 

Cricket: Pinocchio was dead. That much was apparent to any astute observer. But little did I know that death was not the end.


 

Pinocchio: [as he’s being carried in his coffin] Who’s there?
Black Rabbit #1: I thought he was dead.
Black Rabbit #2: He is dead. I saw the paperwork myself.


 

Black Rabbit: What part of dead don’t you understand, schmendrick?
Pinocchio: It’s boring in there. I hate being dead.


 

Death: Who are you? I feel as though you’ve been here before.
Pinocchio: I am Pinocchio. I’m a boy. And I think I’m dead.
Death: Ah, yes. I see. The wooden boy with the borrowed soul. My sister’s folly. The sentimental fool. She gave you life, Pinocchio, when you were not supposed to have it. No more than a chair or a table should. As a result, you cannot truly, truly die.


 

Death: Well, it means that you are not, nor will you ever be, a real boy like Carlo. The one thing that makes human life precious and meaningful, you see, is how brief it is. Don’t get me wrong, you will die many, many times. This being one of them. But they are not real deaths. Just waiting periods.


 

Dottore: I’m afraid the body is rigid.
Geppetto: Well, he’s always been rigid. He’s made of wood.
Count Volpe: Even if he’s dead, I could still book him.
Geppetto: How dare you, sir! Show some respect.
Count Volpe: You show respect to me and my projected quarterly earnings!


 

Geppetto: Pinocchio! You’re alive!
Podesta: He is immortal!
Count Volpe: Long live the arts!


 

Count Volpe: I have a legally binding contract. Signed by both artist and management. He either performs, or you owe me ten million lire!
Geppetto: Well, that’s ridiculous. It’s just a smiling sun.
Count Volpe: It’s still his signature, is it not?
Pinocchio: I drew that.


 

Geppetto: What a day. What a day!
Pinocchio: A fun day!


 

Geppetto: I made you to be like Carlo. Why can’t you be more like Carlo?
Pinocchio: Because I’m not Carlo. I don’t want to be like Carlo. Carlo is…
Geppetto: Enough! You are such a burden.


 

Pinocchio: When he called me a burden, his nose didn’t grow. That’s how he really feels. I don’t want to be a burden. I don’t want to hurt Papa and make him want to yell at me like that.


 

Cricket: Sometimes fathers feel despair like everybody else. And they say things, things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that, well, that they never really meant it at all.


 

Pinocchio: [to Cricket, referring to Geppetto] You tell him that I will send him money. And tell him I love him. And I won’t be a burden anymore.


 

Cricket: [to Geppetto] Why are you so blind? So absolutely blind! The boy loves you. He has much to learn, but he loves you for who you are. Would it kill you to do as much for him? You should start acting like a father. A real father! Not an old stubborn goat who’s so busy moaning and crying about his losses. “Me, me, me. Poor me!” That he cannot see the love he actually has!


 

Cricket: I may be a bug, sir, but I have a thing or two to teach you about… Hey! Where are you going?
Geppetto: After my son!


 

Spazzatura: [referring to Count Volpe] He doesn’t care about you. You’re not his favorite. Spazzatura is his favorite. He’s always been. He’s a genius.
Pinocchio: No! Count Volpe wouldn’t lie to me. I’m his star! You’re all just jealous!


 

Pinocchio: [referring to Spazzatura] Stop that! Don’t hurt him anymore!
Count Volpe: This does not concern you, Pinocchio. You’re a star. Go rehearse your steps.
Pinocchio: I demand that you stop! You said it! I am the star of this show, and I won’t have my costar treated this way.


 

Count Volpe: [to Pinocchio] I think you misunderstand our relationship, my little fire hazard. I am the puppeteer. You are the puppet. I am the master. You are the slave! And you will do as I command until your wooden body rots, and I use you to warm my furnace! You may have no strings, but I control you. You obey me. Capisce?


 

Geppetto: [after being swallowed by a giant Dogfish] A son knows when his father is alive. He will look for us, you’ll see. You have nothing to worry about.
Cricket: Easy for you to say.


 

Pinocchio: Can you believe it? I’ve escaped war, bullets, fire. I was run over! I could get killed a lot! I’m the luckiest boy in the world.
Death: As I see it, you were charged with a terrible burden.


 

Death: Life can bring great suffering. And eternal life can bring eternal suffering.
Pinocchio: Aw, it’s not so bad as all that. Yeah, I get a little beat up every time, but as soon as I get back, I’m going home to my papa.


 

Death: While you may have eternal life, your friends, your loved ones, they do not. Every moment shared with them may be the very last. You never know how long you have with someone until they’re gone.


 

Pinocchio: You know, all fathers love their sons, but sometimes fathers feel despair, like everyone else. And they say things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn they never really meant it at all. And they may even call you ugly things, like a burden, or a coward, but inside, they love you.


 

Candlewick: Are you scared? Of dying?
Pinocchio: Me? No. I died a couple times. It was alright. There’s rabbits, and card games, and a lot of sand. Blue sand.
Candlewick: You’re so weird.
Pinocchio: No weirder than you, pal!
Candlewick: I’m glad you’re here.
Pinocchio: Me too.


 

Podesta: I told you to shoot the puppet!
Candlewick: No! I will not let you do this! All my life, Father, just trying to please you. But I never will! You were right. I’m thin, and weak, and flimsy, just like the wick of a candle. Always afraid. But even then, with all the fear I feel, I can say no to you. I can do that. I’m not afraid to say no. Are you?


 

Count Volpe: [to Spazzatura] How could you do this to me? And for a puppet? You loathsome lusus naturae! You will betray me no more!


 

Pinocchio: [after he and Spazzatura are swallowed by the Dogfish] Papa! You’re alive!
Geppetto: Pinocchio! Oh. My Pinocchio.
Cricket: [as he’s getting squashed] Love hurts.


 

Pinocchio: [as he lies to make his nose grow] Oh, Papa. I hate you!
Geppetto: What?
Pinocchio: And I hate you too, Spazzatura. And you, Sebastian J. Cricket!
Geppetto: Yes, I see! Just this once, lie, my boy!
Cricket: Yes. That’s it! Lie!


 

Pinocchio: Send me back now! Please! I need to go back to save my papa.
Death: You know the rules, Pinocchio. All the sand must fall before you can return.
Pinocchio: There’s no time! He’s dying!


 

Death: Rules are rules, and if we break them, there are dire consequences. If you were to go back now, so soon, you would become mortal. You might save Geppetto, but you will die, Pinocchio. And it will be your last life.
Pinocchio: I don’t care! Send me back! Do it!
Death: Not me, wooden boy. Break the rules. Break them. If you’re sure.
Death: [as Pinocchio breaks the hourglass] Now, go to your father, child. And make the most of it.


 

Wood Sprite: I only wished to bring you joy.
Geppetto: And you did. You did bring me joy. Such terrible, terrible joy. Please, bring him back to me.
Wood Sprite: To save you, he became a real boy. And real boys don’t come back.


 

Cricket: It’s not fair! In this world, you get what you give, remember? And this boy gave, well, he gave everything he could!


 

Cricket: You said if I should perform my duties, and make Pinocchio a good boy, guide him into doing what is right, you would concede me one wish.
Wood Sprite: I did. And did you accomplish this task?
Cricket: Okay! Fine. So maybe I didn’t do so great. Maybe I messed up a little, or a lot. But, well, I tried my best. And that’s the best anyone can do. Pinocchio taught me that. I mean, I taught it to him, and then he taught it straight back at me. And you know why? Because he was good.


 

Wood Sprite: Well, then, noble cricket, choose wisely.
Cricket: Well, gosh, darn it! I wish him back to life!
Wood Sprite: Very well then. Little wooden boy made of pine, may you rise with the sun, and wander the earth. Be his son. Fill his days with light, so he’ll never be alone.


 

Geppetto: Pinocchio. My child. I was trying to make you someone you were not. So don’t be Carlo, or anyone else. Be exactly who you are. I love you exactly as you are.
Pinocchio: Then I will be Pinocchio. And you will be my papa. Will that do?
Geppetto: That will do.


 

Cricket: Life is such a wonderful gift.


 

Cricket: And so it was that we lived our lives. We never saw the wood sprite again. Geppetto aged. Pinocchio didn’t. And in time, Geppetto left. One winter morning, Pinocchio found me by the window. I wasn’t moving anymore. So he put me in a matchbox, and he carries me still with him. Right in his heart.


 

Cricket: He ventured into the world. And the world, I believe, embraced him back. I’ve not heard of him in quite a while. Will he eventually die? I think so. And maybe that makes him a real boy. What happens, happens. And then, we are gone.


 

Black Rabbit #1: Are you going to keep yapping, or are you going to play?
Cricket: Do you mind? I was recounting my life!
Black Rabbit #2: It was a good life!
Black Rabbit #3: Ah, good enough.

 


 

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