Director's Blog

Even though Walt Disney's version of Pinocchio, released in February 1940, was only his second animated feature, following Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, it remains, 69 years later, the greatest animated movie ever made. Period. Jumping the gun by a full year, the Disney Studio has released this gem in two 70th anniversary formats, a digitally restored DVD and, better yet, a Blu-ray version. I've never believed that animation was limited to adults, especially the type on display in Pinocchio. But if you need convincing, or haven't seen it in many years -- and even if you own it on VHS or DVD already, it's never looked better -- , these new releases are the perfect time to re-visit this classic. Its technically brilliant and beautiful animation, Oscar-winning song and score, exciting and humorous story, and memorable characters make it worth watching by movie-lovers of all ages. What a critic wrote in 1940 is still true: "In writing of Pinocchio, you are limited only by your own power of enthusiasm."