It seems that the only prompt for making this movie was to produce a Pinicchio film more faithful to the Collodi novel. Even so, the story deviates for time's sake, reducing its literary merit. In terms of cinematography, the film is certainly beautiful and captures the fairytale atmosphere. Some of the characters such as the grillo parlante are emphasized and seem more like those of the 1940's Disney Pinocchio, and sometimes it is confusing what is an animal and what is not, still the production concept is generally quite charming. However, there really is nothing special about it: it's an uninspired waste of a good cast. The Disney version is better for children, and to be perfectly honest, for everyone else it merits better to simply read the novel.
Review of Pinocchio
