The movie starts out with our narrator and soon to be conscience of the film, Jiminy Cricket, who singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" sets up one of the major themes of the film. Pinocchio is the story about a lonely old woodworker named Geppetto. Geppetto lives in his workshop with his feisty cat named Figaro and his little goldfish Cleo. After making a new marionette puppet that he names Pinocchio, Geppetto wishes on a falling star that Pinocchio could be much more then wood but a real life boy. That night the Blue Fairy arrives to grant that very wish with a catch. If Pinocchio wants to be flesh and blood, he needs to prove himself worthy and to listen to his conscience. Easier said then done Jiminy Cricket quickly finds as they are both tested the very next day. As Pinocchio heads to school, he is confronted by two con artists named Honest John and the mute cat Gideon who convince him to become an actor. From there we watch as Pinocchio is constantly put to the test as poor Jiminy Cricket is stuck in the middle of it all.

So begins our tale of Pinocchio’s constant challenge of finding right and wrong in a world that is full of temptation. Can Pinocchio find his way and achieve his goal to be a real boy? Well it is Disney but you’ll have to see for yourself to get the whole story.

As with Sleeping Beauty, the Pinocchio 2-Disc Platinum blu-ray release is also full of hours of bonus material for you to enjoy after the feature. On disc one we have the film re-mastered for high definition looking and sounding better then it has ever looked. You can also watch the film with a commentary track with Leonard Maltin, Eric Goldberg and J. B. Kaufman or with Pinocchio’s Matter of Facts – a pop-up of fun facts about the making of the feature. Also on this disc is an option called Disney Song Selection. This is a feature that allows you to sing along with all your favorite songs with lyric at the bottom of the screen.

On Disc two is where all the bonus features they’ve dusted off from the Disney archives can be found. No Strings Attached: The Making of Pinocchio is an almost hour long feature on the making of Pinocchio. There are two deleted scenes and an alternate ending complete with introductions. The Sweat Box feature is in reference to the projection room at Disney Studios and is a six and a half minute featurette on their artistic process in making animated film. There’s also a featurette on Live Action Reference Footage, Pinocchio Art Galleries, a Deleted song called “Honest John,” a feature on the art of making wooden toys entitled Geppettos Then And Now and two games for the family in the Games & Activities section. If that still isn’t enough, the Platinum edition comes with a third disc in a standard DVD copy of the film.

Pinocchio is a story that holds up even today with moments of sentiment, as with all of Disney’s films, yet has moments that will scare you into doing the right thing. Walt Disney Studios has once again out done themselves in digging deep into their archive to bring you everything you could ever wish for from Pinocchio. It’s amazing this is the 70th anniversary of this film that now thanks to this re-mastered edition, doesn’t look its age.

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