Every Live-Action Disney Movie Remake Ranked Worst To Best

23. Pinocchio

There's certainly no Disney remake more immediately depressing than Robert Zemeckis' Pinocchio.

As perfect as Tom Hanks seems to play Geppetto on paper, he's given desperately little to do in this mostly charmless, agonisingly forgettable retelling.

Despite Zemeckis' attempts to tug on the audience's heartstrings, this is an oddly emotionally inert take, planing away the edgier elements of the animated version while indulging in a VFX overload that ranges from vaguely neat to a legitimate eyesore.

Beyond a few solid performances and a stirring musical score from the great Alan Silvestri, this is yet another late-period letdown from one of America's most innovative filmmakers.

And it further didn't help that Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated reimagining of Pinocchio was released mere months after this and soundly mopped the floor with it.