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A Disappointing Continuation

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Yeah ... I don't think I'm as big of a fan of this as many people are. It undeniably has a lot of amazing imagery ... it also has a lot of tiresome rummaging around in drawers and similar tedium. I like it, but if it's the best screen version of "Alice in Wonderland", that's largely because of how abysmally unimaginative and dreary most other versions are.

There are many adaptations of Lewis Carroll's classic story. Not all of them are great, a few being pretty bad, but most of them are decent to great though a perfect one is yet to be made.Of all the adaptations of 'Alice in Wonderland', Jan Svankmajer's is the darkest, the most surreal and the most bizarre. As well as the most original, while remarkably staying true to the book's spirit and maintaining most crucial details and characters. Whether 'Alice' is the best 'Alice in Wonderland' adaptation is up for debate, for me it isn't, but it's one of the better and more interesting ones.'Alice's' dialogue and way of narrating does get annoyingly repetitive and is at times unnecessary. It is also a shame about the omission of The Cheshire Cat, one of the book's best characters and often a breath-of-fresh-air scene-stealer.However, 'Alice' looks stunning with lovingly detailed austerely dilapidated interior sets and so many of the stop-motion images, surreal in nature, are fantastically nightmarish (like the fish, skeleton birds and the raw meat), complete with beautiful and atmospheric cinematography. The soundtrack consists of loud, continuous sound effects, that add very well to the strangeness and eeriness.Svankmajer's style shines through loud and clear while still not masking Carroll's storytelling which shines brighter even with the darker tone and modern setting (rather than the dream-like picturesque one). Some may consider the story rambling and episodic, as timeless as the book is it does have an episodic nature so that respect was appropriate. This episodic nature was put to good and imaginative use here, and there are some great scenes especially the Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. The wonderland characters make their impact, especially White Rabbit in an expanded role and the awesome Caterpillar.Krystyna Kohoutova is a very strong Alice, understated and winsome.Overall, a dark and unique adaptation and a very good one. 8/10 Bethany Cox

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 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.