99
Metascore
17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAlong with Dumbo, which immediately followed it, this 1940 classic, the second of the Disney animated features, is probably the best in terms of visual detail and overall imagination as well as narrative sweep.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is genuinely exciting and romantic, great to look at, and timeless.
- 100Los Angeles TimesCharles SolomonLos Angeles TimesCharles SolomonEvery element in Pinocchio shimmers with the energy of young artists reveling in their newly discovered powers of creation.
- 100New York Daily NewsKate CameronNew York Daily NewsKate CameronWalt Disney has waved his magic wand over Collodi's world-famous fairy story, Pinocchio, and presto! he has changed it into the most enchanting film ever brought to the screen.
- 100The New York TimesFrank S. NugentThe New York TimesFrank S. NugentIt still is the best thing Mr. Disney has done and therefore the best cartoon ever made.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis was Disney's second full-length animated feature and it may well the greatest of the studio's cartoon classics.
- 100Pinocchio is a substantial piece of entertainment for young and old. Both animation and photography are vastly improved over Walt Disney's first cartoon feature, Snow White. Animation is so smooth that cartoon figures carry impression of real persons and settings rather than drawings.
- 88Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonPinocchio redeemed Disney from the parlor trickery of Snow White and suggested animated features could indeed dance without strings.
- 70Time OutTime OutPinocchio, in fact, probably shows Disney's virtues and vices more clearly than any other cartoon.