All The Pinocchio Adaptations Ranked Worst To Best
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- DirectorMarco AlemarFrancisco FreitasStarsIvete JaimeJosé SoaresFrancisco FreitasThis modern Brazilian animations tells the story of Pinocchio, a wooden doll who wants to become a human. To fulfill his dream, he gets into many adventures. His nose will grow every time he lies.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsAlex RomanMonica GayleDyanne ThorneDyanne Thorne stars as the fairy godmother in this innocently-sleazy take on the story of Pinocchio.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittTom HanksBenjamin Evan AinsworthA puppet is brought to life by a fairy, who assigns him to lead a virtuous life in order to become a real boy.
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsHaji SuzukiOnn-chanKôji ÔtsuboPinocchio 964, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is abandoned by his owners due to his inability to maintain an erection, while the corporate entity plans to kill him.
- DirectorVasiliy RovenskiyStarsJon HederPauly ShoreTom KennyYoung Pinocchio runs away from his genius creator Jepetto accompanied by the horse Tibalt to see the world and joins the traveling circus run by hustler Modjafocco.
- DirectorRon MerkStarsNancy Belle FullerDan McIlraveyJeff BraunsteinIt's Pinnochio's sixth birthday, and Geppetto, the Good Fairy, and Pinnochio's friends throw him a magical surprise party. Includes two puppet stories - "Puss in Boots" and "The Drummer Boy", X
- DirectorDaniel RobichaudStarsMalcolm McDowellSonja BallHoward RyshpanThe year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates Pinocchio, a prototype super-robot equipped for emotions.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiCarlo GiuffrèDespite guidance from the Blue Fairy and the love of his father, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMartin LandauUdo KierGabriel ThomsonPuppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
- DirectorIppei KuriJim TerryStarsDanielle RomeoLacoya NewsomeCindy KozacikA puppet goes on a fantastical adventure in a quest to turn into a real boy.
- DirectorSteve BarronStarsMartin LandauJonathan Taylor ThomasGeneviève BujoldOne of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet named Pinocchio has one major desire, to become a real boy someday, but he has to learn to act responsibly.
- DirectorTom MooreStarsDrew CareyJulia Louis-DreyfusBrent SpinerThe lonely woodcarver Geppetto gets his wish for a child of his own granted when the Blue Fairy brings one of his marionettes to life; however, being a parent is not as easy as he had expected.
- StarsBob HoskinsRobbie KayJoss AcklandThe enchanted story of Pinocchio.
- DirectorKevin TenneyStarsCandace McKenzieLewis Van BergenIvan GueronA suburban defense lawyer mistakenly gives her troubled daughter, Zoe, a wooden puppet belonging to a deceased serial killer. The toy fills the void of friendship in Zoe's life, but Zoe begins to act increasingly strange and violent.
- StarsMario AdorfBenjamin SadlerInka FriedrichA piece of pine-wood is carved into a puppet by a poor old toy maker. The puppet suddenly comes to life for feeling exciting adventures along with a female wood cricket.
- DirectorOrlando CorradiStarsVittorio AmandolaOreste BaldiniAlessandro BallicoPinocchio is now a young lad and has been staying out of trouble in fear of being turned back into a piece of wood. Pinocchio gets off track and is manipulated into stealing. Watch how Pinocchio learns the lessons that enable him to become a human once more.
- DirectorGianetto GuardoneStarsAlessandro TommeiMariella LottiVittorio GassmanThe most faithful adaptation of Carlo Collodi's renowned fairy tale. After the spirit of Pinocchio miraculously comes to life under Geppetto's hand plane, the puppet frees himself from the hands of his author and father, starting the pilgrimage through the streets of the world.
- DirectorRay GoossensStarsArnold StangMavis MimsPeter LazerPinocchio must prove himself as a real boy when he takes off to Mars with Nurtle in the capture of Astro, a flying killer space whale.
- DirectorGiulio AntamoroStarsPolidorAugusto MastripietriNatalino GuillaumeThe old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.
- DirectorRon FieldSid SmithStarsDanny KayeSandy DuncanFlip WilsonThis is the classic story of a lonely woodcarver who carves a puppet as a son out of a block of wood that not only springs to life, but miraculously fulfills its dream to become a real boy.
- DirectorMasakazu HiguchiChinami NambaStarsCam ClarkeJim CummingsJeannie EliasWhen a small spark of magic escapes from the Blue Fairy's home, it travels down toy maker Gepetto's chimney, bringing one small log to life. Then, when Gepetto's toys stop being sold regularly, he decides to make a toy for his own using this same log. Soon, his new wooden puppet is complete, which instantly comes to life getting mixed up in all kinds of troubles. Soon, however, with the guidance of the talking cricket and the Blue Fairy, Pinocchio learns what is needed for him to earn his heart's desire of becoming a real boy.
- DirectorEnzo D'AlòStarsGabriele CaprioMino CaprioMaricla AffatatoIn this dazzling, delightful re-imagining of the classic family legend, a playful puppet comes to life and experiences incredible adventures in his struggle to become human.
- DirectorHal SutherlandStarsEdward AsnerTom BosleyLana BeesonPinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box. However, so is the evil Scalawag and the Emperor of the Night.
- DirectorPascal ChindStarsBrice FournierChristophe FluderJean-François DérecPatrick, a dwarf junkie, and father-to-be, wants to clean up his act. But his dealers (The Cat and The Fox) have something else in mind : Patrick has to dress up as Pinocchio to steal money from a pedophile, schizophrenic, psychopath who thinks he is Geppetto. This dark diesel-punk comedy is a devilish reinterpretation of the original story 'The adventures of Pinocchio' by Collodi.