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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19960726
Author:Eric Brace; Eve Zibart; Desson Howe

Capsules reviews by Desson Howe unless noted. OPENINGS

THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (G) -- With this vivid, rococo and flashingly sinister version of Carlo Collodi's cautionary children's tale, the Jim Henson Creature Shop makes both "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Independence Day" seem a little vulgar. A seamless mix of live and animatronic acting, it dispenses with Disney's fairy, but keeps the guardian cricket Pepe (voice of David Doyle) that made Jiminy Cricket famous, so to speak. Martin Landau is Gepetto, a little exaggerated sometimes but only in keeping with the general tone, ...

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