Perfect cast and a good story

Lack of good storyline.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

If you are a fan of random, loud, annoying noises and pictures; solely intended to be an eye/ear sore, then this is the film for you. I used to have very vivid, haunting, random dreams of shapes and noises when I was a child that used to haunt me at night. This film is very similar to those dreams.You would have to be another level of pretentious to give this film a positive rating, or refer to it as "art"It is nonsense for the sake of nonsense. The sole intention of this film is to wind people up. I think Jan Svankmajer did this film for a laugh to see what he could get away with, knowing full well that some so called "film critics" would still give it rave reviews, however skin crawlingly pointlessIf I could stop one person from watching this film with this review I feel that I would have made the world a slightly better placeThe only possible use for this movie would be for torture. This is far more psychologically harmful than waterboardingIt angers me that this film exists and the fact that it won an award makes me sick

A loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, this otherworldly piece of work marks the first feature-length filmmaking from Czech stop- motion animation master Jan Svankmajer since he threw himself into this line of work in the 1960s. It is live action combines stop-motion, Alice is play by the cherubic Kohoutová, while her smaller version and other characters are all made of puppets (mostly grotesque) and cards ("off with their heads", the Red Heart Queen often commands), and "the wonderland" is set in a neglected building, often Alice stumbles into a room with surrealistic happenings and there is always a desk with a drawer, and whenever Alice tries to open the drawer, she would mechanically pull out the drawer knob first, take a stumble, then use some instrument to open it. The repetition is rather unexciting for the feature-length, the same can be referred to the annoying close-up to Alice's lips whenever she do the voice-over of the lines of herself (sometimes her thoughts) and all the puppet characters, with the obdurate emphasis of mentioning the addresser in the end of each sentence. As much as I admire the fluid technique of the animation and its fantastic imagination of concocting such a surrealistic template, I can not dispel the awareness of some certain degree of frustration and boredom from time to time. Furthermore, it is not a children's film in any sense, the setting is creepy and uncanny, the characters including the white rabbit, the mad hatter, the March hare, the caterpillar, the frog and the fish, are more germane to appear in nightmares than day dreams, their behavior is irrational and repetitive, so is Alice's robotic acting, too amateur to invite viewers being involved profoundly. The recurring visual themes begin to take its toll in the long run, maybe short is a much more appropriate media for Svankmajer's art form, in any case, it is a beguiling novelty with some innovate ideas, plus it must take meticulous elbow grease to pull off such a big project, although I can be hardly enjoy this film, stand in awe of the final product, Svankmajer is a one-of-a-kind virtuoso in this particular tributary, this is a fact no one can contradict and the film is a true eye-opener if judging on its own merits.

If we remember that Lewis Carroll(Charles Dodgson)was a pedophile, it adds another dimension to his book and to this movie. He was obsessed with little girls. He borrowed them from their mothers who probably did not know that he was taking photographs of them nearly nude. If literary Alice's childhood featured sexual abuse, it would explain s great deal about her nightmares. Victorian children were severely repressed, required to be seen but not heard. Alice in the movie is in effect a life-size doll who goes from being normal size to tiny and then to very large. But becoming larger does not bestow on Alice any power to control the bizarre events in her dream. Except for demolishing poor Bill the lizard (phallic symbol), she is helpless until the very end when she wakes up before the Red Queen can cut off her head. In the book at the very end Alice says defiantly to the royal court, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

If you'd like a lumpy ceramic ashtray from a mental patient's therapy session, then this might be the movie for you. Like garbage art, not bound to any rules of quality, Jan Svankmajer here puts some little girl into filthy decrepit locations and films poorly executed stop action experiments with no connection to plot. Some who don't understand that random isn't the same as art may simply adore it. One possibility for college kids chasing a good time - It may be bad enough to watch as one of those movies 'so bad it's good'? - the little girl says 'Said the white rabbit' about 150 times which can be fun to echo back at your dad or film history instructor who made you watch this.