Review of Pinocchio

If you've seen the Charles Band re-tooling of Cinderella, or even the less well made erotic remake of Alice in Wonderland, you may (as I did) think this film is worth seeing. Not so. This early 70's campfest can't even pull kistch off correctly. Neither "erotic" nor an "adventure" as we watch Pinocchio deal with the gift of life by bcoming some kind of gigolo. In fact, the bulk of the movie reads like gags in a bad burlesque show. I can't say more, not to withhold spoilers so much as the fact the way the film is shot makes it difficult to know what's going on. In an effort to reduce overall nudity (of which there is little and never is it particularly moving), the camera zooms in too far or cuts away just as a scene might have gotten interesting. Highly disappointing, since the final result is a film that is not much less moral than Disney's version, and probably just about as arousing.