I think Cindy being all the popular fairytale girls in one and hiding the will in Pinocchio's nose were really clever ideas. It's just unfortunate that the movie doesn't know how to execute those ideas. Btw, I think Cindy kissing and crying on the wooden dwarves to restore them is a reference to The Frog Prince and Rapunzel, respectively. And it makes sense that wedding bells would turn them back to wood, because in German folklore, dwarves and trolls hate the sound of church bells and generally they turn to wood/stone in full sunlight.
"I lent them to Snow White" Cindy's outfit is white, and her mask is made of Snow.... GUYS!!!! *Pinnochio used "Snow White" as a nickname for Cindy based on her white snow-based clothes! THAT'S WHY HIS NOSE DIDN'T GROW!!! BECAUSE TECHNICALLY HE WAS NOT LYING!!!!*
I would have said "I lent them to the most beautiful girl in the world." Seeing as how Pinnochio honestly believes that Cindy is that beautiful he can keep her identity a secret while still not lying.
AllyOJustice You don't call someone else the most beautiful girl in the world while dancing with a girl who is flirting with you!!! Especially since Pinnochio was flirting back.
I find it hard to believe that common female fashion in whatever time this takes place consisted of off-shoulder crop tops and booty-enhancing skinny jeans. Neither were red, fitting, low-cut dresses. Wait, what if this movie actually takes place in more modern times, when those fashions WERE popular? What if this entire movie is just the Narrator having delusions due to dementia or something? It would explain why she gets Fairy Tales, which she claims to love, so mixed up. It's like Don Quixote, where he read so many Knight tales, and that combined with his wavering mental state due to his old age (50 was considered old then), he got confused with his books, and real life. So like what if this movie is all about the Narrator trying to find her recently deceased husband's will, his death alerting her that she, too, is inching closer to her end as well. She needs to find it in order for her granddaughter (probably) to inherit her belongings. However, her husband only told the Narrator where the will was. While the Riddle was blatantly obvious (it was in a Pinocchio doll's nose), the Narrator has trouble understanding, and gets that confused along with the Fairy Tales she read so often. It's a story about an aging woman who tries to find a will, whilst struggling with separating reality from fantasy. The will is found, as the Dwarves turning back into wood signify that the Narrators delusions are finally going away, as are her worries. *Or maybe it's just a shitty movie that doesn't know what it wants to be.*
+Ghosty144 Come to think about it - it seems that the same people who animated the girl in this movie also animated Megan from the old Generation 1 My little Pony Tales. Seems that they love to put a lot of detail in their butts...O_O
+BigBoomer101 Because they had the help of Nobuko Burnfield, who gave the anime touch to the character Dot later on in the titular character's film series.
This movie was made in 1991, yet it looks like it was made way back in the 70s with its quality of animation. Not to mention, Yoram Gross was the same person who gave us the Dot series of films. One of the films I remember most fondly from my childhood being "Dot and the Bunny" which came out in 1983.
Yoram is probably Australia's best known animator. He also gave us the Blinky Bill series in the mid 90's and the Skippy series of the late 90's. He had come a long way in such a short time after this wierdness.
One thing I noticed was the plotpoint of the Widow fooling Pinnochio into believing she was his mother. All the dwarves were carved out of wood blocks by Cindy's grandfather and they know that so how could Pinnochio even think he was born by a human? He's made of wood and strings! Either he's really stupid or the writers didn't think that one fully out.
Little fact: Seven months after you originally uploaded this video, Yoram Gross (The Producer/Director/Writer of this movie) died. Additional fact: He was born in Poland and fled the Nazis. His family were actually on Oskar Schindler's List, but decided to escape on their own instead. They changed hiding places over 70 times.
Fun fact. The guy who made this movie (Yoram Gross) was also the guy behind the Blinky Bill cartoon show, and he was the guy behind all of those Dot And The series of animated films. Mr. Gross was quite a popular guy in Australia.
I love doing theories/AUs for horrible movies! Grandma is actually in the same nursing home as Grandpa mouse. She does have a grandaughter named Cindy who lives with her stepmother and stepsisters after her father died, but Cindy is kind of blowing their cruelty out of proportion because she was kind of spoiled, and is dealing with the death of her father. In reality they all do the same amount of chores, but her stepfamily doesn't have a chance to defend themselves, as stepmom kind of drops Cindy off at the nursing home every Saturday because she doesn't feel like her daughters (or her) really need to visit with Grandma now that her husband is dead. Stepmom also doesn't look that bad, if not maybe a little plain, but the last time Grandma saw her was at the funeral, where she was sort of a mess because she was still grieving. the "prince" stand in is actually the ex-boyfriend of one of her stepsisters. Cindy is pretty insistent that they "stole" this poor guy from her (even though he's actually a little too old for her) which hasn't helped her opinion of her "lazy" stepsisters, which is also probably the reason Grandma thinks they are also kinda ugly, as she only has what they looked like as 12 year olds and her grand daughter's word to go on.
The scene where she is being chased around by stepmom is after grandma has escaped from the nursing home to try to "help" Cindy. Stepmom doesn't realize it's her at first, because she just sees someone standing in her kitchen that she doesn't recognize, but when the penny drops, she starts attacking and chasing her around because she thinks Grandma is dangerous because she probably hurt someone escaping
after she is chased out of the house, stepmom realizes what actually just happened and everyone is worried because grandma is literally a little old lady with a very loose grip on reality who has run off into the woods in bad weather. Stepmom has called the cops and told everyone to stay inside because she's not entirely convinced that grandma isn't dangerous, and she doesn't want any of the kids getting hurt. The woods near their house are pretty dangerous and easy to get lost in, and Cindy is worried that (with grandma's state of mind being what it is) sending cops in after her is a great way to get the old lady to panic and hurt herself. Cindy's younger stepsister suggests that she should try looking herself, which leads to stepmom threatening to lock her in her room until the cops show up for her own safety.
The shit about "only Pinocchio knows" is actually because (once Cindy catches up to her and finds her hanging out at grandpa's old hunting cabin/worksop) Grandma has somehow gotten it into her head that Stepmom has hidden/destroyed Grandpa's will that reveals that Cindy has inherited quite a bit of money (as well as the house and the land it's on) so that Stepmom can continue to live on the property and leach off her dead son's money. This of course is untrue, as Cindy tries to explain that everyone knows about the will, but the money and the house aren't actually hers until she turns 18, but Grandma doesn't seem to understand. Grandma knows that Grandpa was kind of paranoid, and thinks he hid a copy of his will inside a puppet, Cindy goes along with it because she thinks that as long as she's with grandma, she can make sure she doesn't hurt herself until the police arrive
However Grandma gets separated from Cindy, and is taken by a concerned bystander to a hospital, who puts her in their mental health wing until she can be ID or the family/nursing homes shows up. Stepmom finds Cindy wandering around in the woods and grounds her.
Cindy does eventually find the puppet in question, but the family goes on with life for months under the impression that grandma is dead because they couldn't find any trace of her. Eventually some of Grandpa's buddies are visiting a friend in the same ward grandma is in and recognize her, and they contact the family, who in turn contacts the nursing home. Grandma sees this as the dwarves her husband made saving her, because Grandpa used photos of them to base the dwarves off of.
Only watched up to the ten minute mark. Prediction: "Pinocchio knows" is a pun. The will is inside Pinocchio's nose. Not mind blowing, but deserving of a little more credit than you gave it.
It also renders the entire movie completely superfluous. When you know that the will was inside Pinocchio's nose the whole time, you'll be screaming about how stupid the characters are.
How lame is it that you see a movie as a child and absolutely LOVE it, and after years and years of searching for said movie, find out that it's.. not as magnificent as you remember it to be? TT__TT I don't mind the animation but the story is just a mess..
Olga Mihailovic The animation is a little inconsistent at times but it has a charm to it. Y’know, that mid-to-late 1990s non-Disney film kind of charm.
It took me a few watches to get this, during the riddle song she says "he carries the secret wherever he goes" (referring to Pinocchio). The secret refers to the will and seeing as how he carries the will in his nose, so he does technically "carry the will wherever he goes". I think that is the riddle part of it?
Yeah, I mean, at first I didn't thought it even was a riddle at all: as Bobsheaux says, "Pinnochio knows" is not a riddle, is information, but than again, it IS a riddle because Pinochio does not know, so it is a play in words Pinnochio knows = Pinnochio's nose. It is kinda clever, even if a tad convoluted.
On a side note, Yoram Gross is apparently a big deal in Australian animation, as he's responsible for the creation of the popular Australian character, Blinky Bill. Also, in the cast is Keith Scott. If that name sounds familiar to you, he's the current voice of Bullwinkle from Rocky and Bullwinkle, and subsequently, is a known Jay Ward historian.
@@jacobfelger5684 there was a tv show that came out before called The New Adventures of Blinky Bill in 1984, a live action and puppet series that went for 4 series, yeah i don't remember much of it, don't know how Dorothy Wall felt about it.
Yeah I'm familiar with Yoram Gross, a lot of his animated films do this style where they animate the characters behind live back-grounds. Which when I was young looked pretty amazing, but I realise now is really a means to cut corners on animated back-grounds.
Before the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio entered the story, I found Cindy's situation relatable. I know what it's like to live under an abusive 'guardian'. At 7:05. Right there. That's what I used to look like almost every night after getting a mouthful of condescending insults and shoved around by my jackass of a step father, and my enabling mother doing nothing but pouring herself another drink. I felt trapped and powerless. And despite having pretty normal features for a young lady, I was made to feel ugly, just like Cindy was. All I had to wear were oversized t-shirts and old jeans that hid my curves, and my hair was always cut into a short, shitty mushroom top against my will. And it's hard to have proper time-management skills when your low on energy. Insomnia and malnutrition caused by my abusive situation made me tired all the time. But I do highly disagree with the ending where all of Cindy's problems were solved by getting married to some guy (How old is she anyway? She looks 14 or 15.). When I turned 21, my biological father came to my rescue. When I was legally an adult, and my mom's stupid lawyers couldn't do anything anymore, my Dad was able to convince me to go with him and he got me set up in my own home and living the independent life I always wanted.
Holy shit. I am so sorry that you had to live like that. I'm so happy that you're out of that situation and I hope that your life has been and will be nothing but great since then.
Concerning Pinocchio, I'm not sure if you're referring to the original book or the Disney movie, but in the Disney movie at least, he doesn't find out about the lying-nose thing until AFTER he tries becoming an actor, and in Stromboli's puppet theatre, he just sings a song that (technically) really doesn't have any lies in it. (He truly does not have any strings.)
I saw this movie like once as a kid and all I could vaugely remember from it was the three little pigs song and how one of the step-sisters had a romance with pinocchio, the latter being something that kinda stuck with me in a positive way actually
I remember watching this movie as a kid and I really enjoyed the animation and storytelling....now I look at it with nostalgia and how horrendous this whole thing was. Still enjoyable.
Cindy kinda reminds of Kagome for some reason and Philip kinda looks like Aladdin. Bet Inuyasha and Jasmine won't like it. Pinocchio not only sounds like Daffy on crack but he also sounds like a bad Jim Cummings impersonator
The animation here feels like they were aiming for something that looks like Ralph Bakshi but moves like Pink Floyd's The Wall, then they suddenly remembered their budget so instead it came across looking more like a slightly less lifeless version of The Christmas Tree
This movie, and a couple other Yoram Gross films, were my childhood. But yes, it's pretty fun to point out all the nonsense packed in them, still doesn't stop me from liking them. There are worse animated films than this, like those dreadful animated Titanic movies and everything by that Brazilian company (forget the name).
@@Bobsheaux you said Yoram's Last name totally wrong, not to mention he did the Blinky Bill movie and TV show a couple of years later and yes his Yoram Gross Studios, now known as Flying Bark did the 100 Wolf Movie which that got the tv show, 100 Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone on ABC Me (Yoram was already dead by then years prior) chronology is after the movie. Yoram Gross' animation is often called the Disney of Australia because he's great at what he does as director and producer, his wife Sandra is a executive producer and his son Guy is a music composer. Flying Bark Stan ftw. Doesn't help this video was uploaded a few months before he sadly passed away in his late 80s (1 day before the Blinky Bill movie in 2015). Fun fact their HQ are in Sydney, Is also where I live funnily enough.
+AKArainkit Let's see, a pretty young woman who wants more from her life and meets a handsome man who is her only hope for: Living, living, and being royalty. How about that. Still has more character than Disney pop stars.
+ProbeVoyages Let me see? Snow White seems relativly happy about her life, Sleeping Beauty didn't had any character whatsoever and regarding Cinderella you are spot on.
Pinocchio's voice and character design reminds me of the mad hatter from Care Bears in Wonderland. Everytime he spoke I just wanted to hear a song on how he's mad about hats! Not sure if that makes it worse, better, or just more disturbing. I'll presume one of the "widow's" descendants include the ugly shopper lady from Foodfight as clearly they have ugliness in common....shudder.
Maybe acting does not count as liying because both the actor and the audiences know they're not saying the truth, a lie would offically be when a person wants to deceit another person and making their untrue statement be believe as truth
When the castle of a hundred doors was mentioned, I thought of Labyrinth. And then "Within you" played and I couldn't help crying with laughter :). Great review as always, never fails to get a chuckle out of me :)
I just looked up Robyn Moore she seems very famous in Australia and not to mention very talented I mean it doesn't show in this cartoon movie but it really looks like she's underrated
Hopefully, I want to watch their next film Kubo and the Two Strings. It sounds good and is set in Japan, I like stop motion and Japan, so I hope it's good.
did anyone else notice the eyes on the picture of grandpa when grandma was talking about the riddle? what the hell was that about, was grandpa alive and bob didn't care to tell us?
I'm watching this review and I'm wondering, when was this made? This looks like a 70s or early 80s animation. I looked it up and it was made in 1991. WTF.
Another point I’d like to make is, the three opening songs have almost no art direction in them. It’s just people moving and singing. It reminds me of the songs from Land Before Time 3, characters just singing and moving about the screen.
15:18 If I remember correctly, in the original story of Pinocchio his nose didn't always grow, it was just a one-time thing that happened when he tried lying to the fairy in blue. Later adaptations took the scene and ran with it, making Pinocchio's nose growing a permanent thing that happened every single time he lied, and now that's what people remember. But in the original, Pinocchio should have been able to be an actor without any issues.
First of all: the Riddler opening was hilarious. Second of all: on the one hand, as an aspiring actor, I personally believe there is a lot more to acting than "professional lying." On the other hand...yeah...Pinocchio's not an especially good liar NOR an especially good actor, and the nose does give it away, so... (shrugs) Search me how that plan would succeed. Third of all: I'm pretty sure skinny jeans weren't available in medieval times, or whatever "ye olde time era" this bloody film is supposed to take place in...heck, I don't think even SHREK had characters in such modern clothing... This is all.
So... Cindy is Cinderella, Snow White, little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty? She had the same problems the princesses had in one day? Wow this girl is really unlucky X) The grandma KNEW Cindy was treated like a slave by the widow and did NOTHING to rescue her? It's nice to help her with the cleaning but that's not gonna make her life better. She could invite her to her house. Guess the old lady forgot to ask her.
I also noticed how it's hard to tell when it takes place, but I think it's probably what stands out most in this movie. I know it's just an animated kids movie, based on multiple fairy tales told by a woman who we see mixing them, so I can see how something like that can happen, but all these stories where supposedly set around the same time period - say the 1500's or 1600's. Here, the fashion and style is all over the place; to put it bluntly, Phillip looks like someone you expect to be in those stories, widow and her daughters are in early 20th century attire, and don't tell me you seen a woman dressed like Cindy prior to the 1980's.
Okay, I swear this movie had multiple screenwriters - there's no way it could possibly be this inconsistent unless that were to happen. (Unless, you know, the writer just didn't care.) And even then, did no-one look over the script before production on the film began?
I have this weird thought at 8:53 you can see dust and cobwebs around grandpa's picture and the the table. Since grandma loves to clean so much , why in the world her own house is so filthy. You don't get this kind of cobwebs in a day.
When was this made? Those 2 sisters were like the ones in the MLP movie with the Smooze, and I swear those notes in the the song about the swan were stolen from "Can you feel the feel the love tonight" from Lion King.... Nice job with the Scooby gag in the hall
"Where did she come from, where did she go,"
Where did she come from, Cotton Eye Joe?
I can't be the only one who thought of that.
***** Those aren't the lyrics, but you've got the right idea.
Jaceblue04 Worked right from memory.
Jaceblue04 SAME
I thought the exact same thing.
You're not alone.
"Where did she come from, where did she go?"
So not only is Cindy supposed to be Cinderella and Snow White, but now she's also Cotton-Eyed Joe?
+SuperMarkerComicBro I WAS LITERALLY THINKING THE SAME THING!
SuperMarkerComicBro
Thank god I wasn’t the only one who thought of this.
The Hell?
@@parker-boy98 It's a song.
@@1Up2081 I know that
I think Cindy being all the popular fairytale girls in one and hiding the will in Pinocchio's nose were really clever ideas. It's just unfortunate that the movie doesn't know how to execute those ideas. Btw, I think Cindy kissing and crying on the wooden dwarves to restore them is a reference to The Frog Prince and Rapunzel, respectively. And it makes sense that wedding bells would turn them back to wood, because in German folklore, dwarves and trolls hate the sound of church bells and generally they turn to wood/stone in full sunlight.
"I lent them to Snow White"
Cindy's outfit is white, and her mask is made of Snow....
GUYS!!!! *Pinnochio used "Snow White" as a nickname for Cindy based on her white snow-based clothes! THAT'S WHY HIS NOSE DIDN'T GROW!!! BECAUSE TECHNICALLY HE WAS NOT LYING!!!!*
I would have said "I lent them to the most beautiful girl in the world." Seeing as how Pinnochio honestly believes that Cindy is that beautiful he can keep her identity a secret while still not lying.
+AllyOJustice I lent them to a friend.
Problem solved, his brain is made of cellulose.
+AllyOJustice but he ends up marrying the stepsister...
AllyOJustice You don't call someone else the most beautiful girl in the world while dancing with a girl who is flirting with you!!! Especially since Pinnochio was flirting back.
+AllyOJustice Or heck, why not just say "I leant them to the girl in the snow white dress?
The stepmother is extremely uncomfortable to look at. Just... what.
I disagree in my opinion, though that she ugly!!!!!
TheFanficFanPony its the hanging boobs. THE HANGING BOOBS.
She looks like a down graded Betty bop
+Airista Harns she wasn't kidding when she said black and white cartoons didn't get much work anymore
Yes yes she is
I find it hard to believe that common female fashion in whatever time this takes place consisted of off-shoulder crop tops and booty-enhancing skinny jeans. Neither were red, fitting, low-cut dresses.
Wait, what if this movie actually takes place in more modern times, when those fashions WERE popular? What if this entire movie is just the Narrator having delusions due to dementia or something? It would explain why she gets Fairy Tales, which she claims to love, so mixed up. It's like Don Quixote, where he read so many Knight tales, and that combined with his wavering mental state due to his old age (50 was considered old then), he got confused with his books, and real life.
So like what if this movie is all about the Narrator trying to find her recently deceased husband's will, his death alerting her that she, too, is inching closer to her end as well. She needs to find it in order for her granddaughter (probably) to inherit her belongings. However, her husband only told the Narrator where the will was. While the Riddle was blatantly obvious (it was in a Pinocchio doll's nose), the Narrator has trouble understanding, and gets that confused along with the Fairy Tales she read so often. It's a story about an aging woman who tries to find a will, whilst struggling with separating reality from fantasy. The will is found, as the Dwarves turning back into wood signify that the Narrators delusions are finally going away, as are her worries.
*Or maybe it's just a shitty movie that doesn't know what it wants to be.*
Ghosty144 That right there it's the best storyline, I had ever heard. You should be a filmmaker one day.
Ghosty144 I would watch that movie.
+Ghosty144 Come to think about it - it seems that the same people who animated the girl in this movie also animated Megan from the old Generation 1 My little Pony Tales. Seems that they love to put a lot of detail in their butts...O_O
+Ghosty144 I wish I could see that movie.
That would've made too much sense, to be honest.
This whole movie is like if you tired to make Into the Woods but the only information you got about is ripped up play bill
LegendsP and also you’re on shrooms
cindy looks so mutch like an anime character
+BigBoomer101 Because they had the help of Nobuko Burnfield, who gave the anime touch to the character Dot later on in the titular character's film series.
BigBoomer101 That's what I was thinking!
BilboKoira Oh my god, she does.
That explains her comparing herself to the ugly duckling. In comparison to the other women in her family, she’s the one that stands out.
anyone else think this animation looks like those 80s/90s board game commercials?
fightingleaf yes Husky.
yes it does. xD
Holy shit, it does!
This movie was made in 1991, yet it looks like it was made way back in the 70s with its quality of animation. Not to mention, Yoram Gross was the same person who gave us the Dot series of films. One of the films I remember most fondly from my childhood being "Dot and the Bunny" which came out in 1983.
I actually like the animation and art style, to be honest. They interest me.
Yoram is probably Australia's best known animator. He also gave us the Blinky Bill series in the mid 90's and the Skippy series of the late 90's. He had come a long way in such a short time after this wierdness.
i remember seeing dot and the whale after buying it at the dollar store. thank you digiview productions for introducing me to so much obscure crap.
Interesting. This does look 70s ish
One thing I noticed was the plotpoint of the Widow fooling Pinnochio into believing she was his mother. All the dwarves were carved out of wood blocks by Cindy's grandfather and they know that so how could Pinnochio even think he was born by a human? He's made of wood and strings! Either he's really stupid or the writers didn't think that one fully out.
+Nos4a2Fangirl The answer is YES. lol
Little fact: Seven months after you originally uploaded this video, Yoram Gross (The Producer/Director/Writer of this movie) died.
Additional fact: He was born in Poland and fled the Nazis. His family were actually on Oskar Schindler's List, but decided to escape on their own instead. They changed hiding places over 70 times.
Fun fact. The guy who made this movie (Yoram Gross) was also the guy behind the Blinky Bill cartoon show, and he was the guy behind all of those Dot And The series of animated films. Mr. Gross was quite a popular guy in Australia.
I love doing theories/AUs for horrible movies!
Grandma is actually in the same nursing home as Grandpa mouse. She does have a grandaughter named Cindy who lives with her stepmother and stepsisters after her father died, but Cindy is kind of blowing their cruelty out of proportion because she was kind of spoiled, and is dealing with the death of her father.
In reality they all do the same amount of chores, but her stepfamily doesn't have a chance to defend themselves, as stepmom kind of drops Cindy off at the nursing home every Saturday because she doesn't feel like her daughters (or her) really need to visit with Grandma now that her husband is dead. Stepmom also doesn't look that bad, if not maybe a little plain, but the last time Grandma saw her was at the funeral, where she was sort of a mess because she was still grieving.
the "prince" stand in is actually the ex-boyfriend of one of her stepsisters. Cindy is pretty insistent that they "stole" this poor guy from her (even though he's actually a little too old for her) which hasn't helped her opinion of her "lazy" stepsisters, which is also probably the reason Grandma thinks they are also kinda ugly, as she only has what they looked like as 12 year olds and her grand daughter's word to go on.
The scene where she is being chased around by stepmom is after grandma has escaped from the nursing home to try to "help" Cindy. Stepmom doesn't realize it's her at first, because she just sees someone standing in her kitchen that she doesn't recognize, but when the penny drops, she starts attacking and chasing her around because she thinks Grandma is dangerous because she probably hurt someone escaping
after she is chased out of the house, stepmom realizes what actually just happened and everyone is worried because grandma is literally a little old lady with a very loose grip on reality who has run off into the woods in bad weather.
Stepmom has called the cops and told everyone to stay inside because she's not entirely convinced that grandma isn't dangerous, and she doesn't want any of the kids getting hurt.
The woods near their house are pretty dangerous and easy to get lost in, and Cindy is worried that (with grandma's state of mind being what it is) sending cops in after her is a great way to get the old lady to panic and hurt herself. Cindy's younger stepsister suggests that she should try looking herself, which leads to stepmom threatening to lock her in her room until the cops show up for her own safety.
The shit about "only Pinocchio knows" is actually because (once Cindy catches up to her and finds her hanging out at grandpa's old hunting cabin/worksop) Grandma has somehow gotten it into her head that Stepmom has hidden/destroyed Grandpa's will that reveals that Cindy has inherited quite a bit of money (as well as the house and the land it's on) so that Stepmom can continue to live on the property and leach off her dead son's money. This of course is untrue, as Cindy tries to explain that everyone knows about the will, but the money and the house aren't actually hers until she turns 18, but Grandma doesn't seem to understand.
Grandma knows that Grandpa was kind of paranoid, and thinks he hid a copy of his will inside a puppet, Cindy goes along with it because she thinks that as long as she's with grandma, she can make sure she doesn't hurt herself until the police arrive
However Grandma gets separated from Cindy, and is taken by a concerned bystander to a hospital, who puts her in their mental health wing until she can be ID or the family/nursing homes shows up. Stepmom finds Cindy wandering around in the woods and grounds her.
Cindy does eventually find the puppet in question, but the family goes on with life for months under the impression that grandma is dead because they couldn't find any trace of her. Eventually some of Grandpa's buddies are visiting a friend in the same ward grandma is in and recognize her, and they contact the family, who in turn contacts the nursing home. Grandma sees this as the dwarves her husband made saving her, because Grandpa used photos of them to base the dwarves off of.
Only watched up to the ten minute mark. Prediction: "Pinocchio knows" is a pun. The will is inside Pinocchio's nose. Not mind blowing, but deserving of a little more credit than you gave it.
"THAT THING IS A DICK!!!"
It also renders the entire movie completely superfluous. When you know that the will was inside Pinocchio's nose the whole time, you'll be screaming about how stupid the characters are.
@@tcrpgfan Definitely.
Don'tcha wish yer girlfriend was hawt like ME?
I lost it there. XD
How lame is it that you see a movie as a child and absolutely LOVE it, and after years and years of searching for said movie, find out that it's.. not as magnificent as you remember it to be? TT__TT I don't mind the animation but the story is just a mess..
Olga Mihailovic that happens a lot
Olga Mihailovic The animation is a little inconsistent at times but it has a charm to it. Y’know, that mid-to-late 1990s non-Disney film kind of charm.
Olga Mihailovic Yeah that movie is a great example
Ikr
It took me a few watches to get this, during the riddle song she says "he carries the secret wherever he goes" (referring to Pinocchio). The secret refers to the will and seeing as how he carries the will in his nose, so he does technically "carry the will wherever he goes". I think that is the riddle part of it?
Yeah, I mean, at first I didn't thought it even was a riddle at all: as Bobsheaux says, "Pinnochio knows" is not a riddle, is information, but than again, it IS a riddle because Pinochio does not know, so it is a play in words Pinnochio knows = Pinnochio's nose.
It is kinda clever, even if a tad convoluted.
Somehow, a rapping dog wouldn't seem out of place in this movie.
You forgot to mention Pinocchio falling in love with one of the stepsisters....
Meanwhile in the lookalikes department, Pinocchio is Snively, while the blond stepsister can't decide if she's Miss Piggy or the Sixth Doctor.
Finally there's someone who noticed that Pinocchio looks like Snivley from Sonic Satam
Phillip kinda looks like animated Jackie Chan O_o
+bloodrunsclear Kinda, yeah! lol
Bobsheaux Hey man! Just wanted to say keep up the great videos! They're really entertaining :D
+ Joey Ford I thought she looked more like Duchess Ravenwaves from Lady Lovely Locks.
Bad day bad day!
As bad as the design and animation is, Cidney actually looks pretty nice... xD
Yeah I'll give it that but the voice doesn't match her character IMO
On a side note, Yoram Gross is apparently a big deal in Australian animation, as he's responsible for the creation of the popular Australian character, Blinky Bill. Also, in the cast is Keith Scott. If that name sounds familiar to you, he's the current voice of Bullwinkle from Rocky and Bullwinkle, and subsequently, is a known Jay Ward historian.
+Jacob Felger Dorothy Wall created Blinky Bill. Yoram just helped give him a little boost in popularity at the time.
TatsuraJ Ah. My apologies.
+Jacob Felger It's okay. No harm done.
@@jacobfelger5684 there was a tv show that came out before called The New Adventures of Blinky Bill in 1984, a live action and puppet series that went for 4 series, yeah i don't remember much of it, don't know how Dorothy Wall felt about it.
Yeah I'm familiar with Yoram Gross, a lot of his animated films do this style where they animate the characters behind live back-grounds. Which when I was young looked pretty amazing, but I realise now is really a means to cut corners on animated back-grounds.
Before the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio entered the story, I found Cindy's situation relatable. I know what it's like to live under an abusive 'guardian'. At 7:05. Right there. That's what I used to look like almost every night after getting a mouthful of condescending insults and shoved around by my jackass of a step father, and my enabling mother doing nothing but pouring herself another drink. I felt trapped and powerless. And despite having pretty normal features for a young lady, I was made to feel ugly, just like Cindy was. All I had to wear were oversized t-shirts and old jeans that hid my curves, and my hair was always cut into a short, shitty mushroom top against my will. And it's hard to have proper time-management skills when your low on energy. Insomnia and malnutrition caused by my abusive situation made me tired all the time.
But I do highly disagree with the ending where all of Cindy's problems were solved by getting married to some guy (How old is she anyway? She looks 14 or 15.). When I turned 21, my biological father came to my rescue. When I was legally an adult, and my mom's stupid lawyers couldn't do anything anymore, my Dad was able to convince me to go with him and he got me set up in my own home and living the independent life I always wanted.
Holy shit. I am so sorry that you had to live like that. I'm so happy that you're out of that situation and I hope that your life has been and will be nothing but great since then.
Concerning Pinocchio, I'm not sure if you're referring to the original book or the Disney movie, but in the Disney movie at least, he doesn't find out about the lying-nose thing until AFTER he tries becoming an actor, and in Stromboli's puppet theatre, he just sings a song that (technically) really doesn't have any lies in it. (He truly does not have any strings.)
Here's something I've always wondered about this film why does Pinocchio look like Snivley from Sonic Satam
According to Wikipedia, Yoram Gross died two months after this review.
StageLined :( aww, he had the blinky bill animated series, rip early childhood.
Rick Marr blinky bill?
Gracekim1 A cartoon series in Australia about a koala and his adventures.
in the heart of every Aussie 90s kid ❤️
He so happens to also be from my home country Australia
I saw this movie like once as a kid and all I could vaugely remember from it was the three little pigs song and how one of the step-sisters had a romance with pinocchio, the latter being something that kinda stuck with me in a positive way actually
Well, that kind of sucks for the dwarves...hang on, can't Cindy just cry on them again and bring them back to life?
DBuilder ...Hey yeah, why doesn't she just do THAT? lol
@@Bobsheaux I'm surprised you didn't point out that Pinocchio looks like Snivley from Sonic Satam
I remember watching this movie as a kid and I really enjoyed the animation and storytelling....now I look at it with nostalgia and how horrendous this whole thing was. Still enjoyable.
I just KNEW you were gonna do a David Bowie reference in the castle of 100 doors.
RIP David Bowie :(
+neochopinex I need to put on all of my hats at the same time just so I can lower them in reverence. :(
"Meme, meme, meme, can't wait to be meme, never to late to be M E M E"
This entire movie looks like an early 90s kellogg's cereal commercial.
Cindy kinda reminds of Kagome for some reason and Philip kinda looks like Aladdin. Bet Inuyasha and Jasmine won't like it. Pinocchio not only sounds like Daffy on crack but he also sounds like a bad Jim Cummings impersonator
The animation here feels like they were aiming for something that looks like Ralph Bakshi but moves like Pink Floyd's The Wall, then they suddenly remembered their budget so instead it came across looking more like a slightly less lifeless version of The Christmas Tree
It's funny that Cindy looks more like her step-mother than the widow's biological daughters do.
Why the hell does Cindy/Snow White look like Kagome from Inuyasha?
It was from that decade/era of the 90's. So many animation styles were similar.
Or Sailor Mars
@powerstar 2028 Well. Yes for the 2010s thing. But not all the new ones suck. They are some gems out there.
Phillip was raised to be boring, not sincere.
This movie, and a couple other Yoram Gross films, were my childhood.
But yes, it's pretty fun to point out all the nonsense packed in them, still doesn't stop me from liking them. There are worse animated films than this, like those dreadful animated Titanic movies and everything by that Brazilian company (forget the name).
+TatsuraJ Ah, Video Brinquedo... Where would I be without you? ^_^
@@Bobsheaux you said Yoram's Last name totally wrong, not to mention he did the Blinky Bill movie and TV show a couple of years later and yes his Yoram Gross Studios, now known as Flying Bark did the 100 Wolf Movie which that got the tv show, 100 Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone on ABC Me (Yoram was already dead by then years prior) chronology is after the movie. Yoram Gross' animation is often called the Disney of Australia because he's great at what he does as director and producer, his wife Sandra is a executive producer and his son Guy is a music composer. Flying Bark Stan ftw. Doesn't help this video was uploaded a few months before he sadly passed away in his late 80s (1 day before the Blinky Bill movie in 2015). Fun fact their HQ are in Sydney, Is also where I live funnily enough.
@@pokemaniac05 The last name sounds like “G-RAAS” rhymes with Ross, like the character from “Friends”
I constantly get Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella mixed up. Can you blame me? It's not like Disney gave them much character!
Ohhh!
Gillian Quigley Ohhhh Burn!
+AKArainkit Let's see, a pretty young woman who wants more from her life and meets a handsome man who is her only hope for: Living, living, and being royalty. How about that. Still has more character than Disney pop stars.
ProbeVoyages Ohhhh!!!
+ProbeVoyages Let me see? Snow White seems relativly happy about her life, Sleeping Beauty didn't had any character whatsoever and regarding Cinderella you are spot on.
Pinocchio's voice and character design reminds me of the mad hatter from Care Bears in Wonderland. Everytime he spoke I just wanted to hear a song on how he's mad about hats! Not sure if that makes it worse, better, or just more disturbing.
I'll presume one of the "widow's" descendants include the ugly shopper lady from Foodfight as clearly they have ugliness in common....shudder.
Maybe acting does not count as liying because both the actor and the audiences know they're not saying the truth, a lie would offically be when a person wants to deceit another person and making their untrue statement be believe as truth
That makes a lot of sense.
This was actually made in Australia guys ...
makes me feel weird knowing my country made this :/
The Melburnian Artist Australia gave us the Dot movies and Blinky Bill, so all is well :)
I am Australian
the old widow and the stepsisters look like rejected zelda cdi characters
"Where did she come from, where did she go? Where did she come from, C O T T O N E Y E J O E"
This really is a perfect simulation of a bedtime story told by a grandma with dementia
It's like whoever wrote this movie really hates children.
Yoram Gross directed the Dot movies! Review all those!
4:19. She's a bad troll. A very bad troll.
& she certainly looks like a troll too. Good lord, that face is giving me horror flashbacks of Triplets of Belleville.
+RassilonTDavros Oh dear... lol
RassilonTDavros she’s the meanest queen, you’ve ever seen!
You will have no doubt of her clout,
She’s the queen...
Of mean |:)
Still better than tenticalino.
Anything is better than Tenticalino.
Anything is better than Tenticalino.
+Folan Wolf So true saying it twice was justified.
Folan Wolf +ProbeVoyages You can say again.
I'd gladly avoid both, tho.
When the castle of a hundred doors was mentioned, I thought of Labyrinth. And then "Within you" played and I couldn't help crying with laughter :). Great review as always, never fails to get a chuckle out of me :)
I just looked up Robyn Moore
she seems very famous in Australia and not to mention very talented
I mean it doesn't show in this cartoon movie
but it really looks like she's underrated
Well.... if nothing else Cindy is drawn really nicely?
My childhood film, or one of them. Yes, I'm Australian.
The song about finding the will sounds like the scene in Les Miserables where the Thenardiers go up to Javert.
o/ in the absence of a victim, dear inspector, may I go? o/
lolz
Greetings from New Zealand. I had this on Videotape as a toddler.
Yoram Gross is also the creator of Blinky Bill, which also only had 2 voice actors and I recognise the music from here from Blinky Bill.
2:21 And look at all those farm animals! They got wet in the rain! They're completely useless now... :(
+Laevateinn102 I'll admit, I read that in that old man's voice from Phelous' videos.
+MadameSomnambule I believe that was the point, yes xD
Don't you dare taint a good review show with that obnoxious meme.
Laevateinn102 Wrong critic mate.
Heeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
I like The Boxtrolls it's got a 6.8 on IMDB, which I think is incredibly unfair.
It did pretty good on Rotten Tomatoes though.
Hopefully, I want to watch their next film Kubo and the Two Strings. It sounds good and is set in Japan, I like stop motion and Japan, so I hope it's good.
ademetal I love stop motion.
+ademetal You mean people are putting LIES on the internet? That's horrible! --Cool Cat
+ademetal I just gave it a 10. Hopefully that helps.
Nooo if you combine a bunch of fairytales you get a decent brodway musical called into the woods
Or one of my personal favorite episodes of Rocko's Modern Life.
thought it hilarious in parts and worth the memories of laughter
did anyone else notice the eyes on the picture of grandpa when grandma was talking about the riddle? what the hell was that about, was grandpa alive and bob didn't care to tell us?
I'm watching this review and I'm wondering, when was this made? This looks like a 70s or early 80s animation. I looked it up and it was made in 1991. WTF.
Another point I’d like to make is, the three opening songs have almost no art direction in them. It’s just people moving and singing. It reminds me of the songs from Land Before Time 3, characters just singing and moving about the screen.
Am I the only one who thinks that guy is David Seville from Alvin and the chipmunks?
+Oz-suka ALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY did you buy The Magic Riddle on VHS!?
Am i the only one who thinks that Cindy looks like Kagome from Inuyasha? Because that's the only reason i clicked on this video,
actually now that you say that, he does, I was trying to figure out what he looked like to me, and BAM there it is, thanks
Oz-suka no
The prince looks like Jackie Chan
One of my favorite reviews of your's, Bob.
I'm honestly curious if this movie was even originally in English. Half the time, the lip syncing doesn't even match what the characters are saying.
It was made in Australia, so no, but good point.
I recognized the narrator's/Cindy's voice immediately. She played Nutsy the Koala in the 1990's Blinky Bill animated television series.
15:18 If I remember correctly, in the original story of Pinocchio his nose didn't always grow, it was just a one-time thing that happened when he tried lying to the fairy in blue. Later adaptations took the scene and ran with it, making Pinocchio's nose growing a permanent thing that happened every single time he lied, and now that's what people remember. But in the original, Pinocchio should have been able to be an actor without any issues.
Everyone chin looks like an Adams apple and it bugs the crap out of me.
First of all: the Riddler opening was hilarious.
Second of all: on the one hand, as an aspiring actor, I personally believe there is a lot more to acting than "professional lying." On the other hand...yeah...Pinocchio's not an especially good liar NOR an especially good actor, and the nose does give it away, so... (shrugs) Search me how that plan would succeed.
Third of all: I'm pretty sure skinny jeans weren't available in medieval times, or whatever "ye olde time era" this bloody film is supposed to take place in...heck, I don't think even SHREK had characters in such modern clothing...
This is all.
The time period isn't even consistent! I mean, if Cindy has skinny jeans, shouldn't Widow be able to find a half-decent bra? :/
PINGAS!
How fitting considering that Pinnochio looks like Snively in this film.
0:31 - Fables? ABC's Once Upon A Time?
Into the Woods?
I happen...
To be the....
Most famoussssss....
OF *ALL!*
PokeDude011 Hey hey HEY! Keep your nose in your pants, sir! >:( lol
There are, like, children here!
I'm a duck
+Doug McCoy An ugly duckling?
+Bobsheaux why am I fat
So... Cindy is Cinderella, Snow White, little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty? She had the same problems the princesses had in one day? Wow this girl is really unlucky X)
The grandma KNEW Cindy was treated like a slave by the widow and did NOTHING to rescue her? It's nice to help her with the cleaning but that's not gonna make her life better. She could invite her to her house. Guess the old lady forgot to ask her.
This was supposed to be about a riddle right?
Um... I actually kind of like that Cindy was all the princesses...
...
Yeah....
That's what I knew about this rebel Princess Lady Duchess.
the animation reminds me of the CDI LOZ games.
George Emdin At least it looks better than CDI Zelda. lol
I also noticed how it's hard to tell when it takes place, but I think it's probably what stands out most in this movie. I know it's just an animated kids movie, based on multiple fairy tales told by a woman who we see mixing them, so I can see how something like that can happen, but all these stories where supposedly set around the same time period - say the 1500's or 1600's. Here, the fashion and style is all over the place; to put it bluntly, Phillip looks like someone you expect to be in those stories, widow and her daughters are in early 20th century attire, and don't tell me you seen a woman dressed like Cindy prior to the 1980's.
Chris Case Maybe the 1950s. Cindy kinda looks like she could be from Lil Abner to me. lol
The setting of in the movie is the present (1992) that it was made.
Okay, I swear this movie had multiple screenwriters - there's no way it could possibly be this inconsistent unless that were to happen. (Unless, you know, the writer just didn't care.) And even then, did no-one look over the script before production on the film began?
Fairy tale logic. It’s confusing, yet it works.
3:18 yes the animation is ugly but I actually find Cindy somewhat attractive.
13:10 Now this thing follows LotT logic, but instead of magic moonbeams, its magic kisses. XD
Emily McMahan I thought that said LOTR and was very confused
12:37 WHAT?! WHAT!? WHAT!? WHAT!?...WHAT!? *at pinoccio* ... _WHAAAAAAAA!?_
Yoram Gross made Blinky Bill. Not the new cg one the cartoon.
Dorothy Wall made Blinky Bill. Yoram Gross just handled the 1992 movie/tv adaptations of the character.
He was Australian
"pardon me while i grab a bucket"
got ya covered dude
the stepmother looks like an old washed up Betty Boop
I have this weird thought at 8:53 you can see dust and cobwebs around grandpa's picture and the the table. Since grandma loves to clean so much , why in the world her own house is so filthy. You don't get this kind of cobwebs in a day.
It's certainly not the best written movie I've ever seen, but it's awkward weirdness made it a oddly entertaining film to watch.
Is this pre-"Must be a Bobsheaux!"?
This movie reminds me of those Awful Phoenix Games Cartoons. Only Longer and more Annoying
But better at english and less pixelated
HiperPivociarz
Yeah.
Hooray! How great!
@@monstercombo007 You can only polish a turd so much.
I'm just surprised that Mr. Gross didn't used live action backgrounds as he did with his other films.
To be honest I like the animation. I like that the characters are all different. And that silly song is kind of funny :) 6:39
The widow looks like a witch!😂😂😂😂
The only thing I recall from the same Yoram Gross was the Blinky Bill Animated series.
My gosh... could this thing be worse than The Christmas Tree? Wait- was this made by the same people who made The Christmas Tree?!
No, but they came out the same year (1991). Scary coincidence...
+MrJustinArt It must be the work of an enemy Stand!
Wanna see something weirder and creepier, the 1960(ish) film The Magic Christmas Tree
When was this made? Those 2 sisters were like the ones in the MLP movie with the Smooze, and I swear those notes in the the song about the swan were stolen from "Can you feel the feel the love tonight" from Lion King....
Nice job with the Scooby gag in the hall
17:57 where did she come from cotton-eyed joe?