Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is charming with impeccable attention to detail 

This Pinocchio is a story of “imperfect fathers and imperfect sons”

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - (L-R) Gepetto (voiced by David Bradley) and Pinocchio (voiced by Gregory Mann). Picture: Netflix © 2022 

★★★★☆

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG) is an animated tale that opens in 1916, with narrator, Sebastian J Cricket ( Ewan McGregor), telling how woodworker, Geppetto (David Bradley), lost his beloved son, Carlo (Gregory Mann), to a bomb dropped on their village.