Disney Pinocchio DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Walt Disney&s second full-length animated feature is a timeless breathtakingly beautiful classic Based on an 1800s story by Carlo Collodi it stars Jiminy Cricket (voiced by Cliff Edwards) as a vagabond insect who spends a rainy night at the shop of toymaker Geppetto The Blue Fairy brings a marionette to life after Geppetto wishes on a star for a son & Jiminy Cricket is appointed the new boy&s conscience He has a devil of a time keeping up as Pinocchio is willingly lured through various forms of temptation the most frightening of which leads him to Pleasure Island where he drinks smokes & is almost turned into a jackass This sequence as well as Pinocchio&s brave rescue of Geppetto from the belly of a whale ranks among the most memorable in the history of animation With such songs as When You Wish Upon a Star this is about as magical as cinema can get a sublimely beautiful coming-of-age story for all to treasure