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“Vitus,” a sentimental, crowd-pleasing “Pinocchio” fable, turns the child prodigy movie on its ear a bit.

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The title character (pronounced “Vee-toos”) is a budding piano genius, who, like Pinnoch, wants nothing more than to become a real boy. So the movie isn’t so much about the kid triumphing over adversity and realizing his artistic and competitive potential; it’s about how he longs to become someone else: a normal kid.

“As normal as me?” asks his beloved eccentric grandfather played by Bruno Ganz.

“No,” Vitus replies.

“More normal.”

But who wouldn’t want to be more like Bruno Ganz — everyone’s idealized grandfather, even if he did play Hitler in “Downfall“? Grandpa is a kind and wise fellow, as elderly movie mentors always are.

Of course, the boy adores him, and they share a love of flying — whether with hand-crafted balsa-wood bat wings or single-engine aircr