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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960726
Author:Arnold, Gary

"I don't get it, is he a boy or a puppet?" This head-scratcher, entrusted to a clueless bystander in "The Adventures of Pinocchio," a curiously stilted and superfluous remake of the Carlo Collodi fable, underlines the rudimentary shortcomings of the movie itself.

Pinocchio is clearly an animatronic puppet when this question is asked. He clomps around town on extremely stiff limbs and presents a carved, wood-grainy visage to astonished townsfolk after emerging from the workshop of Martin Landau's Geppetto as a miraculously vocal, ambulatory, stringless marionette.

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