Razzie nominated director Roberto Benigni had tremendous success with his brilliant Life Is Beautiful, but I can't say the same for this Italian remake of the famous story by Carlo Collodi, . Basically, the Blue Fairy (Life Is Beautiful's Nicoletta Braschi, Glenn Close dubbing) gives wood carver Geppetto (Carlo Giuffrè, David Suchet dubbing) a special log, which he turns into a puppet. This puppet comes alive quickly, and being carved into pine is given the name Pinocchio (Razzie winning Roberto Benigni, Breckin Meyer dubbing). Geppetto wants his new "son" to go to school and ultimately be a good boy, but throughout the film Pinocchio is swayed away from doing this by many things that lead him into trouble. Pinocchio does want to be a good boy, and keeps telling himself, the Blue Fairy and The Talking Cricket (Peppe Barra, John Cleese dubbing) he has learnt lessons and will be, but he just keeps breaking that promise. He earns some gold and swindled from it by The Cat (Max Cavallari, Eddie Griffin dubbing) and The Fox (Bruno Arena, Cheech Marin dubbing), he is put into a puppet show, he goes to jail, he nearly gets turned into a donkey, and he ends up in the belly of a whale with his father. But in the end, for working so hard for his father, Pinocchio earns his right to be turned into a real boy, with his old puppet self resting on a chair, and his old shadow momentarily following him. Also starring Mino Bellei (Eric Idle dubbing) as Medoro, Kim Rossi Stuart (Topher Grace dubbing) as Lucignolo/Leonardo, James Belushi as Farmer, Franco Javarone (Hitch's Kevin James dubbing) as Mangiafuoco, and Queen Latifah (dubbing only) as Dove. If I didn't know better, I would say Benigni was trying to stick more to source material with Pinocchio being a very naughty boy, but it just doesn't work. The costumes are ridiculous, the special effects (apart from the whale) and nose growing look quite pathetic, and the acting, especially by irritating Benigni (and Meyer's dubbing), is terrible, it is a nauseating fantasy adventure. It was nominated the Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Remake or Sequel, Worst Screen Couple for Benigni and Braschi and Worst Screenplay. Pretty poor!