Truly Dreadful Film

To me, this movie is perfection.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

A dark and surreal adaptation of Alice in Wonderland combining stop- motion animation and live action. It's not really a children's movie but as the dreams of Alice are unravelled in the wonderland, here more like a nightmare land, the close-up shots of narrations that represents an innocent child are quite distracting. This film is really daring in using such a popular children's story and turning it into a nightmarishly dark and surreal adaptation that shows Alice's dreams in which she's living the trauma that represents the things happening in real life. It's the repetition of certain events that clarify her view of the world treating her.

Alice In Wonderland isn't exactly the most sane thing ever written, even in the context of children's stories. I have never read the books but I have been around seeing other versions (2010, being them more recent one I've seen) and I saw this film and I kind of liked it.While past adaptations have been directly aimed at kids or had a leaning towards kids and adults, Alice (1988) is most definitely for adults. You can kind of tell when you find out the director of this film also did Faust. The imagery, while creative, would give any child nightmares for a week at the least (and this is coming from someone who glorifies "Return To Oz" as all family entertainment).The stop-motion animation for this film is suitably "dream-like". I mean its weird, its unusual, its nothing that you'd ever forget. But, hey, so were the books. The Rabbit is a little freaky as were the other "creative" animation. The girl playing Alice does a remarkable job and even provides the voices for all the main characters giving it a kind of "you're reading the book" feel to it.Now the creativity, alone, has to be spoken for. Why? I firmly believe if you put Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton and Andrei Tarkovskiy in a bag, shook it up, and told the end result to write something, it wouldn't be anywhere near as imaginative as this. One "animal" is literally bird wings and feet attached to a bed. Another is a crocodile with a skull head, eyelids (as freaky as that sounds) and the tip of the tail is bone.I have to say, there is no plot to this film. It is literally a girl looking around her room and creating a "story" out of it. If you think that this would be interesting then this is certainly for you, if you want a bright, cheery film for your kids while you, yourself, re-experience memories...steer clear.

I found this film to be one of the most fascinating and beautifully made adaptations of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece: While the Disney version captured perfectly well the humor, joy and lighthearted elements of the "Alice in Wonderland" books, this movie does a great work portraying in a very original manner the other side of the same story, showing how dark and twisted it could be…And yet, this is strangely faithful to the original story (Well, at least to a certain point) The result, in my opinion, was fairly impressive, being one of the best and most memorable works of Jan Švankmajer, combining perfectly well stop-motion animation with live-action, while at the same time it includes many of the recurring motifs in the rest of the movies and shorts directed by this Czech filmmaker.I would recommend this movie to any viewer who wasn't completely satisfied by the Disney version of this same story, since "Alice" is able to show the dark and mature side of what is often considered just an ordinary fairy tale, despite being much more complex than that.9.5/10

I watched this as a kid, it was on channel 4 or something, DEAR GOD IT WAS DISTURBING. I can't believe people thought this was for children, I wouldn't let my children watch it. Although most children would probably find it boring, I actually quite liked it. But I am now having regular therapy sessions and I blame this entirely.... AND THE NIGHTMARES.JUST.WON'T.STOP..... The image of the white rabbit chattering it's teeth will be forever burned into my brain. CANNOT UNSEE!!!.... NOOOOOO!!!Anyway I have been searching for this for years, it's not very well known so was hard to find. I was curious to find out what it was called so that I could watch it again, I am a glutton for punishment. And I felt that I needed more therapy, I quite like being driven mad by bizarre and random images.Those teeth! NOOOOOO!!!