gcd70 Enormous cast (including Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd and George Wendt) conspire to waste their collective talent on this dreary homage to Lewis Carroll's famous children's fable. Goldberg grins like an idiot throughout, while the rest of the cast behave similarly. Tina Majorino is at odds as to what she should be doing with her lost Alice. Gene Wilder does his usual comic turn as the mock-turtle, while Martin Short is the only shining light as none other than the mad hatter.Whatever fun the cast had making the film does not appear evident on screen. Perhaps they had no fun at all.Saturday, July 31, 1999 - T.V.

waltcosmos When I was 17, even though I was already reading Harrold Robbins, William Burroughs, Iceberg Slim, I also had developed a fascination for the Alice books. Couldn't quite put my finger on it. Course, when I turned 24, I discovered a take on Lewis Carroll that I would have never guessed in a million years, something that justified my re-reading the books with this new knowledge. It was mostly the revelations of his metaphores. The garden Alice was trying to get into, the unexplained growing up and growing down, the idea of the oppressors being "nothing but a pack of cards"...I won't mention what they represent as I am under a restrictive mandate to maintain the secret but it definitely changes the whole picture.This movie followed the book to a certain extent...I'm not crazy about the blending of both stories into one, to tell you the truth. It loses it's thematic thread. That is, one story is essentially about a card game, the other is about a chess game. Who plays chess and poker at the same time? Many of the scenes were surprisingly hilarious. Robbie Coltrane and George Wendt's part as Tweedledee and Tweedledum was a standout. Martin Short literally SHONE in his big courtroom scene. And the scene where Alice comes across the Duchess and her cook for the first time was excellent.However, what was particularly odd was that on the DVD, there were short bios for the main actors...and they said NOTHING about Tina being in Napolean Dynamite, they didn't breathe a WORD about Robbie Coltrane's recurring role in the Harry Potter movies...was this some kind of weird English idiosyncrasy? Then I noticed that this movie was made in 1999, way before those movies I mentioned were ever done. Still, the DVD was made AFTER them, right? You'd think they'd give a backstory.

raymond-15 When you fall down a very deep hole like Alice did, hitting your head on the way down, it is almost certain you'll end up with a sore head and more than likely a certain amount of concussion. In her concussed state Alice begins to experience wild imaginings. At least that is how I explain her strange behaviour.Lewis Carroll seems to have a fixation about body size with Alice only too ready to experiment drinking from unmarked bottles on more than one occasion. When the world becomes all out of proportion, the story takes on a dream-like quality and when Alice cries the whole floor is awash with tears. It's strange how we accept all the nonsense that makes up our dreams. Alice accepts all these weird happenings too.Alice (Tina Majorino) is not the sweet little blond that one might expect in this fantastic tale, but a determined brunette ready and willing to argue a point or save someone in distress. She even fronts up to the screeching Queen of Hearts who seems to be determined that everyone should lose their head.I feel that some of the scenes were too long. I also find some of the scenes not very funny. The knight falling repeatedly from his horse does not send one off into fits of laughter. I also find Tweedledum and Tweedledee a bit of a bore. On the other hand I think that Whoopi Goldberg steals the show as the grinning Cheshire cat. I just cannot forget that face.Some of the sets are top class. My favourite is the Court of Law where the whole building is built of playing cards. And like any house of cards collapses in the end.Alice's imagination runs riot when she sees flamingos being used as croquet mallets. but then, as I said, anything goes in a dream.The story is nicely rounded off when in the end we see the family and friends and relatives and household staff gathered together to hear Alice sing a little song. There is something mischievous about this scene as we recognize the all too familiar faces of Alice's subterranean Wonderland.

marc_copil It's brilliant, all the characters are beautiful and you will never forget them, once you'll see the movie. Miranda Richardson has made an excellent Queen, she's just adorable when she plays hysterical, and I'm upset that my English it's not enough developed, so I could tell you more about it. And Alice is at the right age and look to be perfect, naive and willing to learn but not to be pushed too hard into it, I will associate her face and looks with Lewis Carroll's Alice forever. The images in the movie, it's a complete fairy tale, but exiting enough for adult's too. If you forget about the childhood and the your playground this movie will remind you the days when every one of us could be an Alice in Wonderland .I can draw a million pictures from this movie, it's full of frames which you just had to frame it and put it onto your wall, and obtain a perfect painting