Product: Pinocchio
Rating: 5.0
Brilliant movie. Why no deluxe DVD?
I saw this movie for the second time last night after a 30-or-so-year gap -- I first saw it when I was a real boy. When you're a kid you are affected strongly by a movie, and when you're an adult you see why. "Pinocchio" is not only touching and scary but a technical achievement on the order of the development of the A-bomb. Such amazingly detailed draftsmanship, such wit in the character movements! Like all the great pre-war Disney cartoons it's impressively -- impossibly -- executed but still looks "drawn," unlike the HAL-generated 3-D roboscopic video games the studio does now. You still get the sense of the magic of moving drawings.Only one bonus feature included though -- the 1940 trailer. Worse, some Pleasure-Island jackass has tried to conceal this by giving it its own page: "Bonus Features." There are three of these. One is the trailer.One is a promo for other Disney releases.One is a "back" button.There's a hypocrisy in a movie about honesty being packaged so sleazily that may not be suitable for younger children.