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A very naughty, grimly stubborn (live) Alice lives in a large, semi-derelict building. An accident in her bedroom starts a surreal voyage trying to follow the white rabbit trough magical passages, trying out food shrinks or enlarges her. She takes little account of the trouble she causes to the strange inhabitants, mostly animals. She ends up in front of the royal couple, with the king insisting on a trial (albeit pro forma), while the queen is determined to have her head chopped off like many of the army playing cards.
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By far the most inventive take on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." It's the same story as the book. Alice falls asleep next to her mother and finds herself chasing after a rabbit. Trying to keep up with the rabbit leads her to different adventures. But the actual film is far from anything that has been tried before with this particular story. Alice is the only real person acting, all of the animals are old nineteenth century stop motion animation dolls, toys, and other assorted things. The rabbit starts out as being stuffed and nailed into a glass case. He comes to life, rips the nails out with his teeth, dresses himself, then breaks the glass with his pair of scissors.
All of the animals that attacked her in the house when she was too big to get out were all skeletons. Instead of just having one large caterpillar, there was quite a few of different ones. Which weren't caterpillars, but socks instead. The room Alice entered that had them in it was filled with holes, the caterpillars would jump in and out of each hole for transportation. The Queen, King, and all of their men were actual playing cards. The jacks that were battling were cut out from their cards, as was the King and Queen. All of the other followers were just regular playing cards.
Mad Hatter and March Hare were suppose to be really wacky and wild, which wasn't quite the case here. Mad Hatter was an old toy that had a moving mouth with a large top hat that covered his eyes. March Hare was a stuffed wind-up doll that constantly needed to be wound-up. Mad Hatter would shout that he needs a clean cup, then he would calmly move to another chair as March Hare jumped into a wheel chair and quickly pushed himself over to a new chair. Then the gopher that popped out of the tea pot was a wolf that had been made into a carpet. He slithered around the table and licked out the remains of tea from each cup.
No Cheshire Cat or Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Which was a bit of a let down since those were some of the best characters in other adaptations of the book. Another problem was that each time one of the characters would say something, it would be followed by a close up of Alice's lips saying "Said the Rabbit", but replace rabbit with whoever was speaking at the time. There wasn't much dialogue though, so the lips close up could have been a lot worse. The Queen and King, along with their servants being real cards was a clever idea, but it didn't come together all that well on the screen.
The stop motion animation that was used didn't really look that sharp, but they did the best anyone else could have using those certain methods. Only one actress in the entire film, which did a good job for being so young. Really not much different than all of the other films regarding the story and way they happen, but really different in the filming aspect. By far the best film about the book so far.
Final Conclusion: 8/10
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#1:
Crispy
- added March 10, 2005 at 3:49am
the Tweedles weren't part of Alice in Wonderland.
Rather, the sequel "Through the Looking Glass"
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#2:
Christopher
- added March 11, 2005 at 2:49am
Thanks for the news flash, Tom Brokaw.
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#3:
Tristan
- added September 15, 2007 at 11:08am
Brilliant movie. It was creepy, unsettling, and
very very weird.
I also recently read the
book, so I found that out too. But they were in
the Disney animated version, so if you want to get
nitpicky, go after Disney.
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