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Remarkably, this put me exactly on the movies wavelength.
Also, the titular role is played by a puppet.
Its that kind of movie.)
But then, for the most part, she stays a puppet.
(Theres one brief exception, which I dare not reveal.)
And what a puppet she is!
And like Pinocchio, there are no strings on her.
(Shes most often paired up with Driver, who is acting enough for the both of them.)
Which is not to say that shes unemotional.
When shes frightened, her eyebrows lift in a perfect expression of dismay.
Kids on the Disney Channel have to train for years to hit those beats, and she nails it.
By this point, Driver has metamorphosed into an evil stage dad complete with villainous trilby.
If it is, the puppeteers wont be the only ones giving Annette a hand.
