Product Details

• Actors: Arnold Stang, Jess Cain, Peter Lazar
• Directors: Ray Goosens
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Prescott Entertainment, Inc.
• VHS Release Date: January 31, 1991
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1929406010
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,213 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Everyone's favorite puppet is back... Pinocchio! The beloved boy, who long ago captured our hearts and ignited our imagination, is about to blast off on a fantastic journey into outer space. Get set for a sci-fi adventure of cosmic proportions. The suspense grows, along with his nose, when Pinocchio is swallowed up in one galactic gulp by Astro, the flying atomic whale. Headed for a collision course with planet Earth, Pinocchio and his space friend, Nurtle, the Twurtle, must find a way to stop this whale of an "Astro-roid" from destroying the galaxy. Join Pinocchio and the entire gang... Geppetto, the Blue Fairy, the Sly Fox and the Cool Cat for an awesome animated adventure that's truly out of this world!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Antiseptic reworking of a classic tale!, June 4, 2001

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Jaime Contreras "donjaime" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pinocchio In Outer Space [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I last saw this French/English animated film in 2000 on VHS. The copy is good, but I need to buy a new copy. The storyline follows familiar ground with a twist. Pinocchio goes into space to battle Monstro, the space-whale who threatens to destroy the earth. Our hero is helped by Nurtle the space turtle and the power of hypnotism, which Pinocchio thinks he has mastered. The songs are cute, but forgettable, our wooden friend is now blonde, but Gepetto, the fox and the cat and the good fairy return. The video is good clean fun and a family treat. I hope to get my kids to sit down and watch the film with me. It is safe and entertaining.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You have to wonder: what were they thinking?, July 16, 2009

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Serge Gorodish "Serge" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinocchio in Outer Space (DVD)

If you have always had the urge to see Pinocchio incinerated by an atomic mushroom cloud, then this is the movie for you. It starts out as a rather lame remake of the Disney story, complete with second-rate songs (Geppetto in particular looks suspiciously similar to the Disney version) except that Pinocchio is for some reason now living in contemporary New Jersey. Once Pinocchio makes it to outer space, though, they junk the musical stuff and the story turns into a fairly decent kid-level space opera. The underground scenes seem inspired by FORBIDDEN PLANET with some overtones of THE JETSONS. Although the story is a fantasy, various serious science facts are scattered throughout. It's the kind of movie with dialog such as, "They've been feeding the animals radioactive food to stimulate mutations!" followed by an explanation of what mutations are. According to the producer's commentary it seems the outer-space part came first, and it was later decided to make Pinocchio the main character because he is the one fairy-tale character who ponders moral issues. You have to admire the audacity of the concept. The ending seems to promise a sequel, but so far as I know this was never made. What would have come next? "Pinocchio versus Frankenstein"? "Beverly Hills Pinocchio"?

5.0 out of 5 stars Pinocchio in Outer Space, September 4, 2011

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This review is from: Pinocchio in Outer Space (DVD)

I was a kid when this movie first hit the theaters. My grandmother took me to see it in the afternoon, and I loved it so much I begged my mother to take me again that night. Since then, I've only seen it once on TV, so when the VHS was available in the '80's, I scooped it up. Now that I've replaced it with the DVD, I'm extremely happy. It's unabridged and complete, unlike some movies Disney has put on DVD. The visuals are beautiful, just as I remember them, and the widescreen feature makes me feel like a kid in the theater again. The sound has no defects and has not been altered, unlike a DVD set I got a few years ago from Rhino. Plus, the menu includes a commentary, the opening toy shop musical sequence without overlaid titles, and a mini space science documentary that preceded the theatrical release which I had completely forgotten about since it's never been shown on TV. The project was created by an executive at Filmation, which made many Saturday-morning cartoons such as Star Trek and Buck Rogers, and a theatrical Snow White sequel in the '90's, and was produced by an animation studio in Belgium. It was originally released by Universal, then Columbia distributed the VHS, so I'm grateful that Imagine Entertainment was finally able to market such a high-quality recording on DVD. This is one of three animated treasures from my childhood, and I'm very happy to have completed my collection.