Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Shows Why We Absolutely Needed Another Pinocchio Movie

It’s lighter and sweeter than anything del Toro has ever made.

owes as much to the 1940 Disney version, including the central presence of a garrulous insect, here named Sebastian J. Cricket and voiced by Ewan McGregor. True, this one is not a sprightly conscience but a vain aspiring writer, toiling away on a memoir called. But considering that the unnamed cricket in Collodi’s story gets squished early on by a hammer-wielding Pinocchio, the influence of Uncle Walt can’t be discounted.

Del Toro’s is, of course, a darker and more complex vision, as knotty as the pine out of which his living puppet isThe off-the-cuff approach works less well when it comes to the movie’s depiction of encroaching fascism, which takes over Italy as the story moves through the 1930s and into the ’40s.

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