One thing you can count on these days is not having to wait too long between Disney live-action remakes of its own animated favorites, with recent years giving us fancy new versions of, among others, "Aladdin," "The Lion King," "Mulan" and "Dumbo."
It is the latter — director Tim Burton's uneven 2019 update of the 1941 classic — that most comes to mind when thinking about Disney's new take on "Pinocchio," a blend of live-action and computer-generated imagery that debuts this week on streaming platform Disney+.
Instead of Burton, we get another director with a lifetime of filmmaking behind him, Robert Zemeckis, whose fingerprints can be seen all over the movie, mostly but not always for the better.
