23: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Okay, this is a stretch, but as the film Guillermo del Toro co-directed before Frankenstein a relevant one. Both are adaptations of stories about men creating artificial sons and how the world treats them. It has some cast and creatives in common too.
It’s charming, funny, sweet, at times sad or wistful.
Comparisons to the Disney version are inevitable: The songs are pleasant but none of them are When You Wish Upon A Star or I’ve Got No Strings. And despite the lightning-lit frenzied creation and a couple of visits to Death, it doesn’t try for a WTF horror moment like the bit with the donkeys.
The main chill here is human, as it starts with the Great War in a prologue rivalling Up for sadness and then moves forward to Italy in the 30s and 40s. The lead representative of the authority of the time gets a humanising element and rejects it.
Beautifully done stop-motion, I’d love a chance to see it in the cinema.
The medium: Netflix
Gameability: A fantastical creation and a quest that follows, and this one also lets you embarrass the people ruling Italy in the 30s and 40s.
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