geocraftsman Pinocchio and the emperor of the night is a film I am sure would have repelled more 4-year olds than draw them in with its horrifying imagery for a G rating. But as a film for anyone over 9 years old, I think it is a movie that holds up very well, and is often forgotten. I think it even trumps the Disney film! But why? Well, here we go! This was made by filmation, who also created He-man and all the Archiecomics cartoons. The animation is stunning and you can tell a lot of effort was put into it. The characters are believable and fun to watch. Especially the main villain, the emperor of the night, which has that whole Shiva thing going on with more than two arms. This movie is an alternate time line to the original fairytale, in which the event where the blue fairy changed pinocchio happened, but nothing else. At least I think it is. Everyone else I run into thinks it is a direct sequel, but I personally think it has to be an alternate time line, but the film doesn't explain very well, mystifying most people. However, the songs are mostly bland and forgettable. They are okay at best, except for the blue fairy song, which is horrendous. But, this movie has great voice acting and a very ambient and well- defined tone to it. It has great action, and can be suspenseful and fun, especially near the end when Pinocchio and the emperor of the night are battling over buying Pinocchio's soul. The character designs are really cool. I especially love Pinocchio and Gee willikers, the movie's replacement of Jimminy cricket. I also liked their design of the blue fairy over the one from the Disney version. This is a very well done movie with plenty of good things going for it. I recommend to check it out if you are deep into obscure animated movies with an edge that time forgot.

liberty_mks With only a small bit of the plot in my memory I tracked this video down and purchased it and it was worth looking for.This may not be big budget and it may not be well known but it has a really cute story line.It is important to note that this film may be too scary for young kids. Make sure you know what will scare your child. You may want to watch this before you let your kids see it.This movie if full of color and fun songs. The characters are funny. Two bandit thieves trick Pinocchio out of a special gem and he has to go to the Carnival to get it back. The evil Emperor of the night it out to get Pinocchio's free will to destroy the good fairy. Overall it's worth at least giving it a chance. Don't miss great videos just because they aren't blockbusters.If you enjoyed this look for Gallavants Happily Ever After (the continuation of Snow White) Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland

John Bartus a good Pinocchio sequel although the new characters are quite different but cool i guess i have this one on video the whole movie was pretty good and had some scary moments for example the "Scary Transformation Sequence'' that was really wrong but anyway the whole movie was OK for a sequel and plus this movie has new characters like Lt. Grumblebee, Puppetino, The Emperor of the Night, Scalawag, Igor, Twinkle, and Gee Wilikers. i like the new people it fits good for a sequel. so the movie starts as Pinocchio has been a real boy for one whole year and is celebrating his first human birthday but things go wrong when a carnival comes to town and two bums trade Pinocchio's jewel box for a pharaoh's ruby and the plot darkens when he returns home and his father is upset when he finds out Pinocchio traded something for something fake and grounds him for that and Pinocchio believes he was too untrusted to be his real father and runs away from home and ends up at the carnival looking for a job and he goes sees twinkle's performance of "Do what makes you Happy'' after that's done, Puppetino comes out and lures Pinocchio backstage and tells him what it takes to be a performer he shyly admits it and knows what is really going on after seeing his hand and that's when it starts the scary transformation sequence and Pinocchio starts to dance uncontrollably against his will and Puppetino reattaches strings to him Legs and Feet Pinocchio does try to escape however and he gets pulled back to his will and Pinocchio says "i didn't know that i *click* *click*'' and Puppetino swings him around not to mention scary puppet faces in the background and twinkle's face turning sad and Pinocchio has been completely changed back into a puppet and is now the carnival's "only'' attraction. now that's something you should not see in a cartoon.

La Gremlin If I'm not mistaken, I think it's just about my one-year anniversary here at IMDB. Now I'm sure my raging fans (all two of you) are well aware that I can't get enough of weird cartoons. I happened to run into "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" in the bargain bin of a thrift store recently, bought it remembering only that I had rented it several times as a kid, and came away concluding that it's going to take one heck of a cartoon to beat this one!This movie is crazy. It's like somebody wanted to do an animated film of _Faust_, got bored with it, and decided for the heck of it to throw Pinocchio and Gepetto in it (other characters from the _Pinocchio_ story show up in poor disguises). Pinocchio's adventure leads him from an evil carnival to a freakish neon Hell populated by small children and lastly to the domain of a quadrimanous Satan. Along the way, he has run-ins with a wooden insect, a monkey who is eerily prescient of JarJar Binks down to the last stupid big tooth, and a pretty girl puppet owned by Satan's minion. This last character (the puppet, not the minion) is the focus of a crush from Pinocchio, and I guess this is supposed to be romantic but it comes across as very creepy. (I mean, he's a real boy lusting over a *doll* people; look at the looks he's giving her!)This is a very trippy movie. On that level, it isn't half bad. I actually rather enjoyed it.