CyrusGrissom
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It's a fantastic, very dark and highly underrated animated fantasy epic from Filmation (The guys behind "He-Man", "She-Ra", "Fat Albert", "Bravestarr" and "Star Trek Animated") as it's their best animated movie besides "Starchaser: Legend of Orin" featuring the voices of James Earl Jones, Ed Asner, Tom Bosley, Lou Scheimer, Rickie Lee Jones, and Scott Grimes ("E.R.", "Critters 1 & 2" and "American Dad").
It's about a mysterious creepy carnival that comes to town, Pinocchio just celebrated his first birthday as a human does an important duty to bring a jewel box to the mayor from his father Gheppeto. He makes an idiot of himself when he meets a scandlous raccoon and his monkey assistant who trades the box for a worthless fake ruby. It pisses his dad off so much that he decides to run away to join the carnival as he gets suduced by a beautiful girl puppet named Twinkle and gets tricked by an evil puppeteer named Puppetino who magically changes him back into a puppet, but the blue fairy does change him back as he escapes so he can find the two scumbags that swindled him earlier to go after the traveling carnival so he can get the jewel box back, they end up in the hellish nightmarish realm of the empire of the night conducted by the evil Emperor.
A stylish, entertaining and well animated movie with terrific theatrical quality animation as it manages to be an improvement over previous Filmation animation besides "Starchaser" and "Bravestarr" (Both movie and show) also had good non-traditional Filmation animation compared to the other stuff. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and i just transfered my tape to DVD-R, i remembered when i was 5 seeing this in a movie theater at a shopping mall when i lived in St. Louis back after christmas in 1987 it sure scared the hell out of me especially that terrifying sequence where Pinocchio is slowly changing into a puppet no thanks to Puppetino and his magic organ as he is being tortured with the sounds of his screams
Anywho i highly recommend this underrated 80's animated diamond in the rough for anyone who enjoyed "Rock & Rule", "The Dark Crystal", "The Last Unicorn", "Tourist Trap", "Harry Potter", "Secret of NIMH", "Black Cauldron", "Wizards", "Fire and Ice" and general animation and fantasy flicks.
It's about a mysterious creepy carnival that comes to town, Pinocchio just celebrated his first birthday as a human does an important duty to bring a jewel box to the mayor from his father Gheppeto. He makes an idiot of himself when he meets a scandlous raccoon and his monkey assistant who trades the box for a worthless fake ruby. It pisses his dad off so much that he decides to run away to join the carnival as he gets suduced by a beautiful girl puppet named Twinkle and gets tricked by an evil puppeteer named Puppetino who magically changes him back into a puppet, but the blue fairy does change him back as he escapes so he can find the two scumbags that swindled him earlier to go after the traveling carnival so he can get the jewel box back, they end up in the hellish nightmarish realm of the empire of the night conducted by the evil Emperor.
A stylish, entertaining and well animated movie with terrific theatrical quality animation as it manages to be an improvement over previous Filmation animation besides "Starchaser" and "Bravestarr" (Both movie and show) also had good non-traditional Filmation animation compared to the other stuff. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and i just transfered my tape to DVD-R, i remembered when i was 5 seeing this in a movie theater at a shopping mall when i lived in St. Louis back after christmas in 1987 it sure scared the hell out of me especially that terrifying sequence where Pinocchio is slowly changing into a puppet no thanks to Puppetino and his magic organ as he is being tortured with the sounds of his screams
Anywho i highly recommend this underrated 80's animated diamond in the rough for anyone who enjoyed "Rock & Rule", "The Dark Crystal", "The Last Unicorn", "Tourist Trap", "Harry Potter", "Secret of NIMH", "Black Cauldron", "Wizards", "Fire and Ice" and general animation and fantasy flicks.
