Everyone Is Losing It Over Pinocchio’s Yassified Voice In New Film Trailer
"Very progressive to make Pinocchio a twink."
The trailer for Lionsgate’s animation, Pinocchio: A True Story dropped and gone viral because people think Pinocchio sounds gay as hell.
There are four totally separate Pinocchio films coming in 2022. We’ll unpack that in a moment, but the first of these projects to drop a trailer has made a splash thanks to the titular puppet sounding…yassified, if you will.
In the trailer for Pinocchio: A True Story, he is voiced by veteran comic and voice actor Pauly Shore. A veteran actor he may be, 54-year-old Shore has certainly made some choices in his latest voice work for the famous adolescent wooden puppet.
First posted on the Cringetopia Subreddit, the cursed clip from the trailer has been making the rounds on Twitter and TikTok over the weekend. Even the official Lionsgate TikTok account got in on the action, posting the clip with the caption, “the yassification of #pinocchio”. What a world.
The film appears to be a pretty standard kids movie fare: the famous undead toy is branching out and joining the circus. It’s a trailer that would normally go relatively noticed, if not for the voice.
im crying, they yassified pinocchio https://t.co/Uqno1KjnkV
— bleat house (@sycamore_goat) February 1, 2022
very progressive to make Pinocchio a twink
— awr (@awr_hey) February 1, 2022
Yassifying Pinocchio might work in Lionsgate’s favour — after all, they have to work to set the film apart from the three other completely separate Pinocchio projects coming out this year.
That’s right in 2022, we’re getting four Pinocchio films. Other than Pinocchio: A True Story, we’re also getting Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, set to be a stop-motion animation coming to Netflix later this year. Disney is also releasing their own live-action version starring Tom Hanks and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But if none of those satisfies you, there will be a fourth option in the anticipated Russian animated feature, Pinocchio and the Water of Life.
Pinocchio: A True Story will be available on-demand and on DVD in all his twink glory from 22 March.