When a magical piece of wood falls into his hands, Geppetto carves from it his greatest creation, Pinocchio, a marvelously endowed puppet with life. Pinocchio's dreams of becoming a real boy are complicated by his misadventures among a host of otherworldly creatures - a fox and cat bandit duo, an asthmatic dogfish, a talking cricket, and others - until that he meets a blue-haired fairy, whose only wish is to make his dreams come true.