10 Most Expensive Movies With 0% On Rotten Tomatoes

4. Pinocchio - $40-45 Million

Ridiculous 6 Adam Sandler
Miramax Films

This is not the Disney original nor its modern-day remake, nor the recent Guillermo del Toro adaptation, but rather an Italian language version of the story released in 2002.

Well, we say "version", but the original story of Pinocchio was in Italian, so maybe all the other ones were the "versions".

Pinocchio (2002) should have turned out a lot better than it did. It was directed by and starred Roberto Benigni, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Life is Beautiful. Sadly, things turned out very ugly for Benigni when his movie was dubbed into English.

Yes, the original version of Pinocchio (2002) went down alright in the director's native land, but it absolutely perished when it made the journey to America. Benigni's voice was dubbed by actor Breckin Meyer, who was 22 years younger than him. This jarred massively and the critics were not pleased.

Pinocchio (2002) ultimately went down as a very expensive vanity project for the director, with a budget of anywhere between $40 million and $45 million spent.

Benigni might be a talented actor, but his nose would grow a hundred times larger if he ever said he was pleased with how this one turned out.

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