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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There have been a few movies made of Lewis Carroll's Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865).This one directed by Nick Willing is a TV movie from 1999.There are some known names in this movie.Tina Majorino does very nice job as Alice.Miranda Richardson is fantastic at The Queen of Hearts with her "Off with the head" routine.Martin Short is brilliant as The Mad Hatter.Whoopi Goldberg is terrific as Cheshire Cat.Ken Dodd is great as Mr. Mouse.Gene Wilder is superb as The Mock Turtle.George Wendt and Robbie Coltrane make a very fine pair as Tweedledee and Tweedledum.Christopher Lloyd is magnificent as The White Knight.Elizabeth Spriggs is marvelous as The Duchess, as is Sheila Hancock as her cook.Ben Kingsley is very good as Major Caterpillar.Peter Ustinov and Pete Postlethwaite are both great as The Walrus and the Carpenter.There are many nice moments in this movie.The most delightful moment must be when Gene Wilder sings "Beautiful Soup".This is great fun for the whole family.

Tideland (2005) looks to Alice with respect so it seemed worth looking and it was not so long before I found a copy of Wonderland, just I am way past the point were I could find this easy to read. Novels of 1860ish were often read little bits at a time, as with bedtime stories for the rather little? Tina Majorino. Corrina and Santa Fe. These are not stories for kids, as I had hoped. Find the Majorino version of Wonderland I should not expect it to be a story for kids but I should expect it to be a story that tries to have something worthwhile to say. Wonderland is widely quoted in features. The hypermarket copy of Alice, nicely low cost, the Majorino version too. Tideland had told me that it was worth trying to get to know this story and this DVD was the key I needed for approaching the novel. Add that this feature is Babelsberg, their Back To The Secret garden is one that I return to more than most features despite the deliberate flaws in the dining room scenes. Could be that they tried to specialise in here and now sort of stuff. * The feature starts off in a way that shows promise to me. Agony too, what early teens with a sense of dignity would not prefer to run rather than go through with singing such a song? Cherry Ripe. The feel of the start reminds me of Pit and the Pendulum applied to Bar Mitzvah, a useful allusion in helping me to start appreciating Alice. Lots of detail in the opening pointed to detail in the story to come, this Alice as a reflection of the real world as shown at the start and the end. Except that it is a reflection. Wonderland is reached by the Rabbit hole to give a world that is up side down. Looking Glass gives a back to front view. If this story does give survival hints then they will likely be convoluted? Down side. Not long into the story I was needing to concentrate more, as if this is also not so easy to read. Chunks do not have the immediacy that the best stories have made one expect, though bits with immediacy do keep on cropping up so it is a case of knowing that they are there and being prepared to try to not drift off beforehand. My own guess is that this might relate to this adaptation keeping to the novel too closely, in parts. Just a guess. A bigger reason is that in these up side down worlds one can get one's concentration messed up, real bad. A complication. I watch this in order to try to get to appreciate the novel and a key way I did that here, after seeing it all the once, was going through this slowly to try to write my own set of chapters. I got the impression that the DVD chapters did loosely follow the book chapters, my DVD version's chapter 8 matching chapter 8 of the novel. Just at chapter 10 the feature changes track and covers three chapters of Looking Glass before returning to Wonderland. Could be that those three give useful supplementary detail, just I find this story to take work from me, I would actually have preferred it to keep to normal feature length and just the Wonderland novel. Except that this meant that I have now skimmed a freeware e form of Looking Glass so I know that it includes stuff that I have never read or seen. I am getting the impression that Carroll has a lot of experience of the up side down worlds. He also has fluency for writing a range of fictional scenarios. But does he believe that there is an escape route or has he not found one at this stage, that is the main detail that I looked for in this story. I assume no, but that he has been able to adapt well.

.......after watching this. OMFG it was horrible. I felt like watching a cross between Rocko's modern life and teletubbies. The effects were HORRIBLE the Acting was HORRIBLE and every thing about the movie was just HORRIBLE!!!!!! As we all know the plot is about a stupid god-ugly girl who sees someone who looks a WHOLE LOT like a teletubbie in a rabbit suit. There was the worst effects ever, like a rat turning into a man, a stupid ugly queen who kept saying "off with there heads" every other breath. I couldn't stand the movie, and worst of all, noticed that I OWN it. I found it in my video collection, and this very second as I'm writing this I'm lighting a fire to burn it. Please, do me a great big favor and stick with Disney's masterpiece. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PIECE OF CRAP!!

It's very good but I know the books too well to accept all the changes. I was really hoping for what amounts to a literal interpretation of the books.I have a big problem with the combining of both stories. Disney did it and I was hoping this one wouldn't. When you mix the two, both stories are diluted. "Through the Looking Glass" is a sequel both written and set a number of years after "Alice in Wonderland". The feel of each is quite different.I really wish the characters had said exactly what was written in the books. They were written in Victorian England and the style is a bit dated, but completely understandable. Lewis Carroll could have been writing screenplays.The cast is superb. No disappointments there. Highlights are Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle, Christopher Lloyd, perfect as the White Knight, Martin Short as the Mad Hatter and George Wendt and Robbie Coltrane as Tweedledum and Tweedledee.The thing I really couldn't stand was the attempt to string all the experiences together with a storyline about Alice performing in front of family members. In Lewis Carroll's own opinion, the stories are pure nonsense, so to try to make sense of them is pointless.I hope that someone finally makes the literal interpretation of each book that I want, with two separate movies. Each book is short, so the film-maker could spend the length of the movie faithfully recreating them.