Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night [VHS]

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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night [VHS] Review

A year after Pinocchio (Voiced by Scott Grimes) became human thanks to his fairy godmother (Voiced by Rickie Lee Jones), a mysterious creepy carnival comes to town and sets itself all nicely in the opening. The next day Pinocchio had his very first birthday thanks to his father Gheppeto (Voiced by Tom Bosley) and the Fairy Godmother as he is told by her that he must not take his freedom of humanity for granted or else he'll become a puppet again. His father assigns him to deliver a jewelbox to the mayor in town but gets distracted on the way. A con-artist raccoon named Scalawag (voiced by Ed Asner) and his monkey assistant Igor (Voiced by Frank Welker) swindle him as they give him a worthless fake ruby for the box, it upsets his father so much that he decies to runaway and it also upsets his new living toy bug named Gee Willakers (Voiced by Don Knotts). He decides that he wants to join the carnival but gets seduced by a lovely girl puppet named Twinkle (Voiced by Lana Beeson) who is the main star of the show but is tricked by an evil puppeteer named Puppetino (Voiced by William Windom) who is the title villain's minion and he transforms Pinocchio back into a puppet. He does get rescued by his fairy godmother later to be human again as he must find the two scoundrels that swindled him earlier yet he does as they go after the traveling carnival only to end up in the nightmarish hellish realm of the empire of the night conducted by the diabolical Emperor (Voiced by James Earl Jones) who wants Pinocchio's soul.

Co-starring Jonathan Harris and Linda Gary, this is an awesome and overlooked animated fantasy gem from Filmation (Makers of He-Man, She-Ra, Bravestarr, Ghost Busters, Fat Albert and Star Trek animated) and New World Pictures in 1987. The film took five years of hard work from the company as it was their most expensive project ever but unfortunately it did bad at the box-office and got mixed reviews as now it has a small cult following. I'd say this is Filmation's best animated movie around! i love how it doesn't focus on stock animation that the company is known for but actual true animation and i also like how it's faithful to Collodi's vision of the Pinocchio books. It's a nice sequel to the classic fairy tale and up there with Disney's Pinocchio as the second best Pinocchio movie ever, this movie is just as dark as Carlo Collodi's book and Disney's version but more disturbing and eerie even with that horrifying moment where Puppetino turns Pinocchio into a puppet.

The songs are quite good like the powerful "Love is the Light Inside Your heart" to the fun and upbeat "Your a Star". I also love how well animated and drawn this movie is and the voice acting by the cast is solid including the brilliantly executed Emperor himself. I was 6 in 1987 as i remembered on christmas night i went to see this at the mall with my mother and this scared the living crap out of me yet i loved it the same as i do with Disney's version but some parts creeped me out at that age. It's one of my favorite animated movies of all time and a perfection companion for anyone who loves Disney's version or who likes rare cult animated movies.

Starz/Anchor Bay or Shout Factory need to release this on DVD badly in a special edition but look online for this movie to take a look as it's a lost diamond in the rough but maybe too intense for small children as it nearly got a PG rating, great fun.

Also recommended: Disney's "Pinocchio", "Wizards", "Making Contact (a.k.a. Joey)", "Fire and Ice", "He-Man and She-Ra Secret of the Sword", "The Dark Crystal", "Return to Oz", "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory", "Aladdin", "The Last Unicorn", "The Secret of NIMH", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Spirited Away" and "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs".

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