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Janice Page, Boston Globe: Audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough. The reality of the new live-action Pinocchio he directed, cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: As the wooden puppet who yearns to be human, Benigni ... is steadfastly insufferable, from his naughty, naive stage through a transformation to a state of virtue that is steeped in a self-congratulatory martyrdom and nobility. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Would Benigni's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster? Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Benigni's Pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted, its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The movie unfolds in a clumsy zone between fantasy and realism, and in the end it's neither here nor there. Read more
Dan Fienberg, L.A. Weekly: Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log? Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: In the spirit of the season, I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: A film substantially lacking in personality, energy, magic and humor. Read more
Mark Peranson, Village Voice: What remains is a variant of the nincompoop Benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible Sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of Road Trip. Read more