Tag: Pinocchio

Lilo & Stitch (2025)

While I never saw the full movie, I saw enough clips on YouTube to see why most people agree movie remakes don’t get as unnecessary (let alone bad) as 1998’s remake of the Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho.

Apparently, when asked why he did the (nearly) shot for shot remake in the first place, director Gus Van Sant responded “So no one else had to.” This mindset is the only silver lining I can think of for Disney with their live action remakes, whether good or bad, and the remake of Lilo & Stitch falls in the latter category.

3 1/2 Stars Movies

Wish (2023)

Just as I was a few minutes away from the theater to see Wish (the 62nd animated feature from the company), I thought to myself: How many times has that word been used in their past films?

Songs that came to mind include “I’m Wishing” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), “A Dream is a Wish your Heart makes” from Cinderella (1950), and, of course, the king of all Disney songs, “When you wish upon a star” from Pinocchio (1940). If one were to make a word cloud of the dialogue (and songs) in Disney films, “Wish” would most likely turn up more than any other word (with the possible exception of “Dream”). With that logic, it seemed a movie like Wish would be inevitable to be released on the centennial of the most known movie studio in history.

Tags Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Disney, Encanto, Fantasia, Frozen, G, Moana, Pinocchio, Rated G, The Lion King, Victor Garber, Wish

3 1/2 Stars

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Not long into The Little Mermaid, I wondered if I should now be disqualified from reviewing any more of the live action remakes.

As a nineties kid, I am not alone in saying how much Disney meant to me, especially when I think back to the VHS collection I had (no one had a better VHS case like Disney: those things felt bulletproof). Now we are in the remake stage.

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Post author By Mark A. Lester
Post date December 22, 2022
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Two weeks ago, I was experiencing back pain that I was more than likely sure were kidney stones. While the pain was not as severe as it had been in the past, it lasted enough days for me to double check with the doctor. Well, turns out it wasn’t a kidney stone…it was two.

My friend Peter said it best: “You are one stone away from an Infinity Gauntlet”.

Tags 2000 Mules, 2022, AMsterdam, Black Adam, Dinesh D'Souza, Don't worry darling, Hocus Pocus 2, Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Dominion, Moonfall, Moonshot, Morbius, Pinocchio, Spiderhead, The Gray Man, The Lost City, Uncharted

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Pinocchio (2022)

There is no way I can discuss the live action remake of Pinocchio without talking in depth about the 1940 animated masterpiece.

Maybe I just can’t see past the end of my nose, but it is what it is.

Tags 2022, Cynthia Erivo, Disney, Keegan-Michael Key, Lewin Lloyd, Live Action Remake, Lorraine Bracco, Luke Evans, Movie Reviews, PG, Pinocchio, Rated PG, Remake, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks