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A fun cheapie-creepie from Canada, ostensibly the sequel to the 1968 German PINOCCHIO but with few similarities except the director, Ron Merk, who goes uncredited here. He made the original film and a third film, PINOCCHIO AND HIS MAGIC SHOW, seemingly all in different countries. This one's a very stagy production with sets that look like art-student designs for a school play. But as Pinocchio is a giant puppet playing amongst live actors, there's a touch of the surreal to it. The whole film has a nice feel of groovy post-60s burnout. Pinocchio's birthday party segways into some nicely-done dimensional animation shorts from the German DEFA studios, including "Puss in Boots" and "The Little Drummer Boy." After the cartoons, an evil wizard shows up and rains on Pin's party, but the good fairy saves the day. An eccentric film, worth watching for the obscurity-conscious.
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