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Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio! The legendary masterpiece that inspired millions to believe in their dreams has reawakened with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration that shines brilliantly on 2-disc DVD. Now, for the first time ever, the richly detailed animation, unforgettable award-winning music When You Wish Upon A Star and heartwarming adventure-filled story comes to life like never before. Plus, all-new dazzling bonus features transport you into Pinocchio’s fantastic world! Join Geppetto’s beloved puppet with Jiminy Cricket as his guide on a thrilling quest that tests Pinocchio’s bravery, loyalty and honesty, virtues he must learn to become a real boy. The one and only Pinocchio will live on forever in the heart of anyone who has wished upon a star.
Bonus Features include the Pinocchio Knows Trivia Challenge, an all-new Making Of Pinocchio, the Sweat Box, Walt Disney’s Artistic Review Process, Disney View, Expand Your Viewing Experience Beyond The Original Aspect Ratio Of The Film, Cine-Explore, Disney BD-Live: Connect, Explore And Interact, all-new When You Wish Upon A Star; Music Video Performed By Meaghan Jette Martin, Pinocchio’s Puzzles Game, 18 Puzzles In A Multi-Tiered Game, Pinocchio’s Matter Of Facts Discover More About Pinocchio’s World With Pop-Up Trivia, Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes, Alternate Ending
DAVE KEHR, NEW YORK TIMES
“The new “Pinocchio” looks magnificent, with a richness of color and a tight definition that evoke the theatrical experience.”
CHRIS NASHAWATY, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“You won’t find a sweeter story or a tidier morality tale about the virtues of being ”brave, truthful, and unselfish.” Grown-ups will eat up the commentaries and featurettes about Disney’s band of merry-prankster animators, and kids can spend hours with the disc’s interactive puzzles and Pop-Up Video-style factoids. You really couldn’t ask for more.”
KENNETH BROWN, BLU-RAY.COM
“Simply put, the 3-disc Blu-ray edition of Pinocchio should already have a comfortable home on every true filmfan’s shelves. Buy it without any further delay.”
HARRY KNOWLES, AINTITCOOL.COM
“An absolute must for animation lovers!”
Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition + Standard DVD+ BD Live) [Blu-ray] Reviews By Customers
I recently bought Pinocchio on Blue Ray, and was blown away by the colors and the quality! I was skeptical that it could look much better than before, but the Blue Ray did make a huge difference. I’d recommend this to anyone who wants to add a high quality classic to their collection. It’s worth the extra money.
Cheap Way Out – James H. Fraghia – FLORIDA, USA
Disney took the cheap way out by releasing this movie in 4×3 full screen format instead of one of the widescreen formats that Blu Ray disks are normally released in. This is the only Blu Ray disc I have seen in 4 x 3 format. I returned the Blu Ray disc because I refuse to pay Disney’s premium price for a non widescreen Blu Ray of Pinoccio. I hope Disney re releases it in widescreen because it is an excellent movie.
Pinocchio (Two Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition) – Karen L. Lettieri –
I bought this wonderful Pinocchio two disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition CD. I really enjoyed watched it and the price and shipping were really great. Thank you.
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The Truman Show [Blu-ray] Reviews By Customers
From the opening interview with Christoph, the creator of The Truman Show, where he very quickly and rather arrogantly states: “Yes, It is staged but it is not fake” I was hooked. Gott in himmel (god in heaven)!, what could that possibly mean? I suppose Cristoph the creator and producer is telling us that, even though every aspect of Truman’s life is staged, his reaction to the scripted events are real. While he may have a point it occurred to me that perhaps Cristoph could predict within a fairly specific range of possible reactions, how Truman might react to a particular stimulus. So are we all being played?
What do we learn from the masses who are watching Truman’s life as it unfolds? Do they see in the scripting of his life, how scripted and mundane their own lives have become? Do they yearn to break free from the yoke of routine, of sameness or do they, in fact, find some comfort and safety in routine? How will they react as Truman discovers the truth about his life? Sit down, enjoy the ride and prepare your brain and your preconceived notions about what is life and living to be twisted painfully in the wind!
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“We accept the reality of the world as it is presented.” – Andreas Faust – Tasmanian Autonomous Zone
This film by Peter Weir (Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society) has some themes in common with ‘Dark City’ (by another Australian director, Alex Proyas) as well as the British sixties TV show ‘The Prisoner’, although it doesn’t go into as much philosophical depth as either of those. It’s still a worthwhile film, however.
‘The Truman Show’ is clever in the way it gradually reveals the artificial nature of central character Truman’s world. Jim Carey performs well as Truman – an actor people love or hate, but he suits the role admirably here, despite not being able to resist breaking out into his trademark exaggerated flourishes. Weir is a director who knows how to play the viewer’s emotions, and the pathos of activists trying to tell Truman his life is a charade is beautiful. Truman’s producers believe they can ‘handle’ him, but his spirit breaks out regardless in the end – a lesson to would-be totalitarians everywhere.
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Seamless – rbnn – Berkeley, CA United States
Tightly-crafted film, well ahead of its time – this was released before the spate of reality shows and youtube videos documenting everyday life. Extremely well acted and extremely thought provoking. Perhaps slightly too maudlin at times, and the details of Truman’s final plot were somewhat unclear; a great film though.
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A spiritual form of cannibalism – Automated Message – SF
Oh, that I could be so lucky as to have Truman’s life. Not only does he get to break the spell of consumerism with which we’re so bewitched, enslaved by, really. In Truman’s “reality,” there really is somebody behind the controls and he’s actually a very sweet man. The wizard, in fact, is not a munchkin gone power-mad, but just a down-on-his-luck fellow stuck in a box for so long that the touch of a woman is but a distant, stained-glassed memory.
Everybody Loves Truman! What’s there to complain about: Are you trying to tell me, Mr. Weir, (you, whose hippie-dippy “The Mosquito Coast” found Han Solo getting preachy, stuck in some frozen-in-carbonite jungle planet dreamworld), that we don’t all want to be superstars, gawked at by every living human breathing thing? Do I instead want to discover that my life as an empty consumer chaneling my techno-slave ethics is merely due to somebody pushing a series of buttons behind the temporal screen? And I can forsake that and go meet my merry, beret-encrusted maker in Booth 33. And once ultimately in heaven, to then sit on a gooey cloud and weave tinkles from a 150-pound solid gold harp forever and ever and ever.
I would much rather talk to you through my shaving mirror, wittious, without restraint, oh so very amusing in my “innocent” ways. Forrest Gump teams up with The Prisoner in this hapless, “Thelma & Louise” for the manly man’s soul. Tarzan with a twinkle in his eye and a gymnastically inclined eyebrow and a tie hanging from his neck, a robotic Gomer Pyle spreading bland cheer like a throat coughs up the bubonic plague. Blindfolded ministers riding hamsters through the dark alleys with roses in their teeth, forest fires in their hearts.
Saddest of all is how, with nary a quickened pulse, we demote the role of a human to a laboratory animal as a form of wholesome entertainment. No wonder we’re going to hell in a ham basket, folks.
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