just watch it!

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Great Film overall

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I just caught this by chance on SyFy today. It was incredible. I'm shocked I'd never even heard of it. Surely not for every taste, but it kept me watching until the end.Alice In Wonderland was already a 'shroom trip of literature, but this was taken to another level. A great update to an already wigged-out tale. The British guy that played the Mad Hatter, Andrew Potts, really made this thing for me. He was excellent. Truly odd in every way. I know some people aren't up for such things, but one thing is for sure, you won't be bored.The only people I recognized in this were Colm Meaney and Kathy Bates, as the King and Queen of Hearts. Their parts were fairly small, but everyone in this thing seemed perfect for their roles. Bates was supremely evil. A great job by all involved here.

After watching Tin Man I expected Alice to be much of the same. Indeed this mini series does the same thing, a re-telling of a classic fairy tale and here is is Alice in Wonderland, It changes things so you do get a different story but still with many references to the original story and characters. Although fantasy and fairy tales movies in more modern settings rarely work for me, this movie does the job well. It has enough fantasy elements and depth to keep me interested and intrigued until the end. Children probably won't enjoy it as it dark and confusing at times but definitely not as complex as the original story. While not perfect it's enjoyable and worth several views.

Alice follows a man through a mirror into Wonderland, which is not the joyful place from the story. It is now ruled by an even more merciless Red Queen, and the inhabitants have a strange sort of addiction to "tea" that is drained from humans outside of Wonderland. Can Alice get back home?Writer-director Nick Willing has previously worked on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" -- he made a version starring Tina Majorino back in 1999, which was one of the closest adaptations ever. A bit dry, but Willing's love of the characters was obvious. Here he returns with a modified story, much less dry, and a whole new spin... this is the masterpiece.All the cast is pretty great, even Caterina Scorsone (Alice) who flails her arms wildly when she runs. Andrew Lee Potts (Hatter) does a great male lead, being both handsome and understandable. Cult icon Matt Frewer is a wonderful White Knight, though they might have used a better beard. Having Colm Meaney (King of Hearts) show up was good, though his role was not made all too clear.The situations were brilliant. The "tea party" being more like a stock market was a good modification, though I don't know why the Dormouse was a woman with a mustache. The room with Doctors Dee and Dumb was genius, and I really liked Mad March (though the Brooklyn accent was a bad choice).Three casting choices failed for me. Philip Winchester (Jack Chase) did not have the charisma he should have to play the romantic interest. He just did not make a strong hero. Tim Curry (Dodo) was doubly wronged: his Dodo made little sense (why the Dodo?) and a character actor of his caliber deserved a bigger role. Lastly, Kathy Bates (Queen of Hearts) was wasted. Anyone could have played the Queen the way she was written (very flat)... using Bates was overkill. This is probably the best thing SyFy did since picking up the rights for "Mystery Science Theater". What is normally a worthless network was spared by this film.

This was an absolute total rip-off garbage of the classic books. Alice was NOT suggested to play an adult which she was supposed to play a teenager not an overacted drama queen adult. I thought this was one of my worst movies of the year far worst than bedtime stories, spiderwick, and bolt those were some of the movies that came out over a year now and those that I kinda disliked but this film was worst than these movies. It was boring, slow, garbage-like, lame, and weak that I had to turn around and watch War of the worlds now I can't understand how much people like this movie and others don't but if it were me, I would lower the rating. I expected this movie to be a charming movie with a girl that looked like a child in the ad but I knew it was a grown up but only cared about the script and the film, they were both lame. Alice in Wonderland is not my choice fairy tale but quite charming, this Alice was terrible, it made me turn around to change the channel and never expect to watch it again not even as a grandmother. I hope they don't put this trash on TV ever again unless they're going to do it every once in a while.