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Release Date: 23 August, 1999 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (18 total) |
Alice in Wonderland Reviews
Oh no, no more Alice in Wonderland remakes, please!
The earlier versions of Alice in Wonderland (eg. 1951 cartoon edition) was, well, good. Cheerful. Happy. This 1999 version is at the bottom of the ones I've seen. The only thing that grabs you a bit is Alice shrinking and growing and the walls all changing. But nothing else pretty much amuses me, in fact, everything else is complete dull waste-your-money blogs. Don't watch this version... at least don't buy it. Use this review and instead borrow or rent it. (Get the earlier ones)
NOT A CARTOONISH VERSION
Lewis Carrol,when entertaining the liddel children one summer came up with a rather novel little story in which Alice Liddel would find herself in"wonderland",a place not entirely unlike Victorian England,but odd and charming(which 19th century England was not)...later Carrol(who was in fact the ,an Oxford Don,noted photographer,and local celebrity),would fill out the story told to little Alice Liddel and the charming"alice through the looking glass"was born..Apparently the book itself is no longer read,inasmuchas most of the reviews of this,the only really faithful adaptation of the work,compare it badly to the cartoon version by Disney...Carrol's humour was always grounded in 19th century current events,and many of the curious little poems included in the work were not so much"nonsense"as they were clever adaptations of events and personalities of the time period...The fact that young children,like Alice Liddel(then about ten years old) could recognise the grown-up aspects of the Carrol story while at the same time being entertained says much for the level of education given children then(and says much about the ABSENCE of such education now)..If one wants an entertaining,but largely gutted version of "Alice in wonderland" one should skip this film and opt for the Disney product...it is slick and uncompicated,and requires no thinking whatsover,a perfect film for the MTV generation...If ,on the other hand,YOU HAVE ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK,and want a film that reflects what Carrol actually wrote,then skip Disney & buy THIS version...you won't be disappointed...
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