Well to be honest I was pretty much blown away by the artistry, the depth and beauty and the sheer primal power of it. The characterisation is sharp, to the point and witty. The trickster-cad foxy Honest John is immense. I've been humming his song "Hi Fiddle De Dee, an actor's life for me," ever since. The puppet master Stromboli is amusingly monstrous, and rather shocking at the end in his leering abuse. Figaro the kitten is the most patently adorable cartoon creation ever. Pinocchio 'itself' is actually a very funny chap, completely gullible and awkward, with the right prediliction for sin as all children. Not sappy at all. The climax is exciting, and I really wondered, "How the flip are they going to escape this whale?" But the best bit without doubt is the entire Pleasure Island sequence.

Yes, Pleasure Island. See this Dreamworks and weep, as you will never, ever animate anything as awesome. The subtle use of colour and dark cavernous sky to denote menace in the otherwise playground idyll, the just ever-so-wrong grotesquery of the oversize clowns, thugs and policemen balloons and statues that loom over, the sheer rampage that runs through it... and then the pay off! The ape shaped black shadows that run the operation at the demonic Coachman's bidding, the revelation of what goes on, the pitiful cry of the talking donkey, "I want to go home to my mamma!" And then his buddy-in-naughtiness Lampwick changing, the bit where his hands scrabbling on Pinocchio's jacket for help shift into gripless assess hooves - it's all amazing. One of the single greatest overall scenes I've witnessed in animation history.

So yes, five out of five for that film. I don't care if you were a paranoid commie hating sinister fellow, Disney - with such art you're okay in my book.