History Animation / PinocchioATrueStory

* RepulsiveRingmaster: Modjafucco is a hideous-looking, greedy ringmaster who uses his performers as distractions so he and his henchmen cat and Fox can break into the audience's houses and rob them blind. [[spoiler: He also bought Bella from a child trafficker when she was small and kept her at the circus her whole life, not even trying to find her real father.]]

* AdaptationAmalgamation: Downplayed, but a fair amount of the movie's plot elements and characters can seem slightly less out-of-left-field when you consider how much of it came from Pinocchio's Russian equivalent; [[Literature/TheGoldenKeyOrTheAdventuresOfBuratino The Adventures of Buratino]]

** In the movie Pinocchio is blonde instead of black-haired like in the book.
** Lucia, the stand-in for the Fairy with Blue Hair is also a blonde.

** While Gepetto in the original book did love Pinocchio, he was also kind of a GrumpyOldMan and a very strict father to his son. In the movie, Jepetto is an overall friendly old man and a doting father, who's only flaw is that he's a little overprotective. And even that is shown to be justified, as Pinocchio's status as a living puppet often paints a target on his back.

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* TakeThat: "[Leonardo] won't do either. He'd grow up to be a selfish actor!"

* SwissArmyTears: [[spoiler: Bella [[DisneyDeath brings Pinocchio back to life]] through by shedding a tear on his body.]]

* AdaptationDistillation: The movie leaves out many of the original story's segments, like Pinocchio's misadventures with the Fox and Cat, his trip to The Isle of Toys and subsequent transformation into a donkey and his and Gepetto's being SwallowedWhole by the dogfish.

* LighterAndSofter: This might just be one of the cleanest adaptations of the book. While there are some dark elements, like Pinocchio getting shot that one time, it's only played for BlackComedy. The movie emits most of the book's darker plot-beats like The Isle of Toys and the donkey-transformation, Cat and Fox torturing and trying to kill Pinocchio or even the brief time Pinocchio spends inside a giant dogfish.

* HongKongDub: The English dub really doesn't try to match their new dialogue with the original mouth flaps, resulting in the characters' mouths frequently moving after they've finished talking.

The English version, distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}, stars Creator/PaulyShore as Pinocchio and Creator/TomKenny as his creator and father Jepetto.

* RepulsiveRingmaster: Modjafucco is a hideous-looking, greedy ringmaster who uses his perfomers as distractions so he and his henchmen cat and Fox can break into the audience's houses and rob them blind. [[spoiler: He also bought Bella from a child trafficker when she was small and kept her at the circus her whole life, not even trying to find her real father.]]

** Modjafucco, the RepulsiveRingmaster of the circus, who uses his performer to lure in and distract people, so he can break into their homes and rob them of everything valuable they own.

The English version, distributed by ''{{Creator/Lionsgate}}'', stars Creator/PaulyShore as Pinocchio and Creator/TomKenny as his creator and father Jepetto.

''Pinocchio: A True Story'' is a Russian [=CGI=] movie based loosely on ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi. It was written by Vasily Rovenskiy, who also directed the movie, and Maksim and Vadim Sveshnikov. The film was released on February 17, 2022 after multiple delays caused by the UsefulNotes/{{COVID19Pandemic}}.