Top cast:Robert De Niro,Ray Liotta,Joe Pesci
Director:Alessandro Genovesi
Genre:Documentary
Region:Macau
Year:2007
Storyline:The erroneous book, with a turning, ""black-hole""-like center, vacuumed him into itself, until he had to literally pull himself out with an elongated face.It allowed for realistic camera movements, separate foregrounding planes, and dolly shots, in two scenes in particular:the expensively-made, zooming-in shot into the village he morning after Pinocchio came to life, as doors opened to homes and children ran, birds flew, and people emergedJiminy""s POV of the landscape as he was leapingImpressive animation work (in the days long before computer animation) was also evident in many sequences:the radiant flames of the fireplace in the workshopthe band figures atop a wooden musical boxCleo the fish""s view of Pinocchio through the glass of her fishbowlJiminy""s chase after the two villains who have convinced Pinocchio to join them for a life of theatrical show-businessPinocchio""s stage debut, singing and dancing with other marionettesPinocchio trapped inside a hanging bird cage on Stromboli""s jostling wagon during a thunderstorm, with flashes of lightning briefly illuminating the lifeless marionettes that hung corpse-like all around hima forlorn Geppetto, searching desperately for his lost son, watching as the carriage that imprisoned Pinocchio passed him by in the rainthe shimmering underwater view ofvarious ropical fish, sea anemones, seahorses, clams and shoals of fish before Monstro the whale appearedthe whale""s capture of a school of tuna, the sneeze hat sends a torrent of water (and the raft) from its mouth, and he whale""s pursuit of them on a raftThe lively soundtrack, with five songs, perfectly complemented he story: the film""s theme song "When You Wish Upon a Star" (sung wice), "Little Woodenhead," "Give a Little Whistle," "Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor""s Life for Me)," and "I""ve Got No Strings.During the spaceship""s flight to Earth, the baby was wired to support survival, and a computer (with Jor-El""s voice) taught the baby, as it grew, about literature, mathematics, history and science from many worlds and galaxies.They arrived just as the wedding ceremony commenced - Shrek burst in to interrupt, crying out: "I object" as he ran to the altar, where Farquaad was about to kiss Fiona to seal the forced marriage.Beginning of FlashbackRobie related the story in flashback (a common technique in film noirs), about how Richard had ended up spending two years in prison, beginning with a preface about how the protagonist had first met a deadly and derangedfemme fatalesocialite on a train - she changed his life forever:Some might say I lost the case for him.