I am thrilled with the makers' fresh new take on the original story. Placing the setting way into the future and Pinocchio be a robot was such a great idea (I happen to love robots) and he's complete with his innocent and playful nature, he's awesome. Scamboli is one of the best villain names I ever heard of! Scamboli is among my favorite bad guys, hating the children sabotaging construction around his Scamboville yet giving them an amusement park to try to win them over. He's also got a nature loving, imaginative teenage daughter, Maurleen, who kinda gets on his nerves yet he tries to keep her happy...till a point. Scamboli's robot sidekicks Rodo and Cabby are real goofballs, well, Cabby more than Rodo. Rodo rocks for being a wind-up porcupine riding on one wheel! I adored Spencer, Geppetto's butler, a lovable robotic purple penguin who plays Pinocchio's conscience and as a fun bonus he mixes up metaphors! Whoopi Goldberg voicing Cyberina was a major plus! Geppetto was such a warm and caring father, I wish he was my grandpa. I really like every character in this, they're all so appealing. I'd like to mention one other character: the Scambocop. Poor guy suffers all kinds of abuse and humiliation yet out of all the robots in the movie he's got the coolest voice chip! ^_^

The songs "What's the difference (between a robot and a man)" and "Do the Robot" were really catchy. If I had this movie when I was a child, I would have been obsessed with it. It's just bursting with imaginative stuff kids would love. Like the Imagination Game Maurleen gets Pinocchio to play with her. That was so much fun to watch, I wished I could jump through the screen and join them! Dogfish the whale from the book even makes an appearance in Scamboland as a wicked cool ride!

I enjoyed Pinocchio 3000 much more than I did with Robots eight months earlier.