Product: Pinocchio
Rating: 3.0
too dark for my four-year-old
I tried to watch this movie with my son who is four-and-a-half. I really enjoyed it and he really enjoyed meeting Jimminy Cricket and seeing Pinnochio come alive. But when the villains entered the scene he started getting anxious, but could handle the first batch: the wily fox with companion, and the exploitative Stramboli. But then someone even more evil came on the scene who scared evil the nasty fox. When this evil character started talking about kidnapping little boys and taking them away from their mommies and daddies to an island far away, he freaked out. He wanted me to turn it off and, today, the day after, he still refuses to watch anymore. Based on this, I would have to agree with what some of the parents have written here in other reviews: it's too dark for some children. Full disclosure: my son is a sensitive sort and we don't let him watch regular TV where he would no doubt be exposed to "gratuitous violence" (which is really a euphemism for murder, gun battles, bombs exploding, gruesome war scenes, etc.) I thought the movie was wonderful as a piece of animation, a piece of cinema, even a piece of art. But I give it 3 stars just to alert parents that this movie, like other Disney movies, is surprisingly dark considering it is supposed to be entertainment for the whole family.