Alice in Wonderland

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Summary: A pleasnt movie that is easy to get absorbed into.
Review: Alice In Wonderland is a movie that is pleasnt and has real plot unlike other movies being made now. The actors in the movie are outstanding. Alice did a wonderful job. Everybody in the movie worked very hard. I loved it and I could never turn a chance down of seeing it.

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Summary: A delightful adventure for the whole family!
Review: One of the year's best family films. With an all star cast portraying the leading characters it was sure to be a hit. Maybe, it's not true to the EXACT written version by Lewis Carroll, but so what!! It was fun and entertaining for our little ones, our teenagers, and us alike! And it had a good morale message tied into it too!! I recommennd it heartedly!

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Summary: Interesting
Review: This is a great comedy\adventure for people with good imaginations. But that isn't my source.

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Summary: Very well-done and faithful rendition of Carroll's story
Review: I saw this version (and taped it) when it aired on TV in February. I thought it was very good. I just read Lewis Carroll's book and saw it again. (I have now read a couple of chapters of Through the Looking-Glass) It was very faithful, at least to the first book. (I don't know about the second one yet.) I thought most of the actors did a pretty good job. Tina Majorino was okay, and even though the scenes with Martin Short as the Mad Hatter and Miranda Richardson as the Queen of Hearts go on too long, they're good for a few laughs. Many of the other "stars", such as Whoopi Goldberg as the Chesire Cat and Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle, did well, also. It was a nice touch to have almost all the characters in WOnderland really be people at the party in the beginning, since in the book I kind of wondered why she picked those characters to dream about. The special effects and design were very well-done, too. All-around enjoyable fare. Hopefully the video won't edit out stuff that was on TV, like they did with the video version of Merlin. Lucky for me, I taped it (Alice in Wonderland, not Merlin) when it was on TV.

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Summary: Re: A Viewer from Pennsylvania 6/23/99
Review: I am also an Alice collector and I agree with you wholeheartedly except for one thing. An amazing version of Alice in Wonderland DOES exist..."Alice" by Jan Svankmajer (1988). It's not 100% accurate to the book, but it captures the madness beautifully. The two stars I've given this TV version are for the nice visuals in some scenes.

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Summary: This was the most wonderful movie ever.
Review: I am 13 years old, and I have not outgrown alice in wonderland. Not by a long shot. so when i saw this movie, I thought Oh great, that stupid alice and wonderland I'd seen for years by disney. WRONG! This was a wonderful movie. It followed the stories really well, and from Tina Majorino *who played alice* to Pete postlethwaite *the carpenter in the play* this was a great casting job, and I adored it.

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Summary: Of course it's great
Review: What are some of these people talking about? This adaption of the famous Alice stories is by far the most excellent! And as nearly every character look was borrowed from Tenniel's original illustrations, which nearly every person who reads the book sees, it does the best job of any of keeping imaginations satisfied as possible. I'll admit, there is no way an Alice movie will please everyone, but consider this: they did everything possible to keep the image you take from the book. Also, if one will notice as they watch, all but 3 songs of the 9 or so were written by Carroll himself and included in the text of the book! And nightmarish aspects are everywhere. An ominous void of a cloud chases Alice throughout the film, for instance, and the whole story is of Alice's fear (I won't give it away). This is much better than the horrid 1985 miniseries and even better than the humorous and beautifully animated (and voiced, come to think of it). I thoroughly recommend at least a chance and am sure that the majority of people who give one viewing won't be able to stop themselves from another.

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Summary: Another ALICE.
Review: I really don't like this film... at all. ALICE IN WONDERLAND is my favourite story, it is perhaps more of an obsession than a favorite, and I collect different copies of the book and different versions of the film. This, I feel safe in saying, is the least satisfying of them. None of the ALICE film versions are very good, but this is perhaps the worst. Ironic, too, because this version has the advantage of technology over imagination. It is everything a televison film is: a colorful spectacle full of dizzying computer effects and familiar faces from TV and movies. But what else? Very little, at all. ALICE's story is, as we all know, a fantasy, but it is fantasy at its highest level: it moves and manipulates the own personal interpretation of every individual who reads it, and so crystalizing its events on film is sure to be a failing venture, because it is presented as the maker sees it, and not as the viewer does. I think people should just give up trying to make ALICE into a movie: it's never going to work. The story is fantastic, even mystical, in its nature, and confining it to set faces and a running time simply cannot happen with any high level of success. And another complaint: we all know ALICE is a children's story, but haven't these people ever noticed that it is actually a very FRIGHTENING children's story? Think about it, movie-makers: a little kid is lost in a surrealistic world full of eccentric, and, we may say, fairly "unsound" characters. So why are we painting it over with a shiny coat and filling it with cheesy songs? ALICE is a dark story, and it is annoying to see dazzling children's films about it. Few children even LIKE the story, it is too weird for them. And if a child DOES like the story, sit him down in front of the book, not some lackluster film version of it. I appreciate how the makers attempted to make the movie at least remotely surreal, and it does have its moments (Alice falling down the rabbit hole and her encounter with the White Knight come to mind), but on the whole, this film, like all of its predecessors, holds very little of the charming and menacing feel that the book does. The only way I might ENJOY this one is if I drop acid before I watch it, maybe then it would appear as bizarre and nightmarish as I think it is. But, unfortunately, I don't do drugs. So, in short, read the book. And if you hate reading, or the only form of entertainment you appreciate is the ranting and raving that comes in over the brain-melting televsion set, I suggest you stick to the Disney version. Moving illustrations help form some of the unconscious feel of the story, at least better than any of the live action ones do.

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Summary: better than other alices movies but not as true to book!
Review: Sticks to the regular ALICE book, up untill the LOOKING-GLASS scenes they start to run short on time, so cut out 1/2 of the LOOKING-GLASS ,this ALICE was more to the first 1/2 of the story but still little things were cut, changed, etc. where could have not made a difference but over all, better than rest but not as good and as true to the story as could be.

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Summary: Magical, entertaining, funny, and dazzling
Review: Carroll's infamous tale has been made into movies nearly a dozen times, however this version does a good job of keeping true to the text. The story is entertaining and the Hollywood big-shot cast is quite funny. Although originally TV-ready this version may be frightening to young children...especially if they were expecting Disney. The strength of this production lies in the special effects...most notably on DVD. It is for movies like this that you bought a DVD player in the first place.