“Pinocchio” (**1/2 out of four) was a visually enthralling but dramatically hollow live-action/CGI adapation of the classic Disney tale about the title puppet (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who is brought to life by his magical owner (Tom Hanks) and is then corrupted by the real world and then his inventor has to rescue him and attempt to restore the both of them to safety and security in an unsafe and insecure world. Full of eye-popping visuals (Pleasure Island and the final whale scenes are a wow) which give you your money’s worth but film as a whole comes up empty since the script, story, and characters are so mild and threadbare. Worth a look for family audiences and animation fans but this still bears the mark of another remake simply made for money, and not much else.