Pinocchio's Christmas

1980

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 874 874

holiday stop motion christmas

Plot summary

As Geppetto prepares for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet, Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.

Director

Jules Bass Photo
Jules Bass

Top cast

Paul Frees Photo
Paul Frees as Baker
George S. Irving Photo
George S. Irving as Geppetto
Gerry Matthews Photo
Gerry Matthews as (voice)
Tiffany Blake Photo
Tiffany Blake as Child
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Michael_Elliott

Fun From Start to Finish

Pinocchio's Christmas (1980) *** (out of 4) Another winning Rankin/Bass animated film has Pinocchio selling a book that Geppetto bought for him so that he can take the money and buy his father a Christmas gift. Along the way he's cheated out of the money by Fox and Cat and soon Pinocchio finds himself in an all new adventure. I really wasn't aware of this film before running into it on television and I must say that this was one of the better Christmas animations that I've seen. I'm a little surprised that the film isn't better known and just looking around it appears that most people haven't heard of the film, which is a shame. As usual, the animation is a major plus as all of the characters look terrific and I really love how much detail they actually put into Pinocchio. The amount of detail they give the character almost looks so good that you forget that it's not some sort of computer generated effect. Another major plus is the actual story that manages to contain some laughs, drama and of course a message for the kids. I enjoyed several of the flashbacks including a wonderful sequence where we see Geppetto getting the wood and carving what would become Pinocchio. With the commercials this here runs an hour but the added running time certainly pays off and the material is so rich that you really could have turned this into a feature-length film and it still would have been entertaining.
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Reviewed by Baldach 4 / 10

good clay-mation children's movie

A clay- animation film where Pinocchio tries to earn enough money for a Christmas present. And ends up teaching the spirit of Christmas. A good clay animation movie for children with up beat songs. Only objectionable part might be the lack of any mention of religion reasons for Christmas. On a personal note, at the end of the movie there was some fore-shadowing of Pinocchio's future adventures. Just curious if there was a other clay-animation about Pinoccio made?

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