Little Wooden Boy

I was hesitant about watching Guillermo Del Toro's "Pinocchio", just because I didn't know if that was the one that people didn't like.  Apparently, that applies to the other Pinocchio movie released last year.  My thoughts as I watched on Netflix:

• I like that they look like they're made of wood.
• One song and I'm already crying.  I mean, I knew what was coming, and I still cried.
• "Model Fascist Youth" Ha!
• Is Sebastian's middle name "Jiminy"?
• That's how I am about balloons, Gepetto!  I wouldn't have taken it with me.
• Oh, I love the Ahab character!
• I was, like, "Mine, mine, mine" when I saw the seagull, and then BOOM.
• Who knew Mussolini liked puppets?  
• "This-a puppets I do not like."
• "Sometimes fathers say things they only think they mean in the moment.  But they love you."  I am a mess of tears!
• That's no island!
• "Well, I taught it to him, and he taught me right back."
• Oh, he gets his top hat!  And Ewan gets to sing!  

Well, that was beautiful and quite touching.