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In 1999, NBC broadcast a novel version of Alice in Wonderland, created by the same folks who produced Gulliver’s Travels, Merlin, and Noah’s Ark. This star-studded version had Tina Majorino (from Waterworld) as a winsome Alice, and other stars like Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat, Miranda Richardson (Crying Game) as a rather high-pitched, shrill Queen of Hearts, and Martin Short as a very comical Wrathful Hatter. There are plenty of other stars, of course, but these are the ones you will spy the most. This particular production is a loose adaptation, really. It incorporates portions of both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. And it adds a novel twist – Alice runs after the White Rabbit not out of curiosity from boredom but rather to flee from having to vow a song in front of many strangers at her parents’ party. Her adventures in Wonderland as thus partially about how she summons the courage to overcome this stage-fright, and when she does, she returns to the steady world. In the meantime, we survey the usual enchanting episodes in Wonderland – the Exasperated Tea Cup party, the croquet match, Twiddledee and Twiddledum, the trial of tarts, the Duchess and her baby pig and cheshire cat, etc. There are even a few songs scattered here and there in the film – the songs, for the most portion, are nothing special but they do not distract mighty from the movie (some folks may also remember a 4-hour TV miniseries on the Alice books, filled with songs, from the 1980s; this was also star-studded and probably more faithful to the books but the songs were annoying) .
The best thing about this unique Alice film are the special effects. They are unbelievable and earn a most bizarre, surreal, and intelligent version of Wonderland. This makes the film expansive fun to recognize at. Also, Tina Majorino does a mountainous job as Alice, and we really grow to really like her and sympathize for her as the film progresses. Martin Short, as I mentioned, is pleasing humorous, too. This is definitely a film the whole family can savor, and there is nothing offensive in the film at all. If you liked this film when you first saw it on TV, win it! I did! Currently, it sells for less than 10 dollars on some internet sites! Quite a bargain.
Finally, honest a few words on the DVD itself. The colors are apt and the record quality is certain and outstanding. Sound quality is quite kindly – it won’t give the subwoofers any workout, but nonetheless, it sounds very suitable for a TV broadcast. Extras on the disc include the usual suspects – film production notes, cast notes, trailer, discontinuance captioning (instead of subtitles) . There is also a cramped share showing the recent illustrations of the Alice books, and lastly, a runt fraction about the inspiration for the Alice books (quite informative for those who do not know about the real-life inspiration for Alice) .
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So, all in all, the DVD is worth the choose and makes for many fun re-watching sessions for the kids. A pleasant family recommendation!
If you are reading this you are probably trying to determine if this ‘Alice’ adaptation is worth watching or you may have already watched it and are wondering about the reaction of other viewers.
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It is the most faithful (to the book) adaptation so far (faint praise as most efforts might as well have been fresh screenplays) and the sets, special effects, make-up and Muppets are light-years better than what others have tried.
But all is not apt with this version of ‘Wonderland’ so Carroll fans should not net their hopes up too high. The adaptation involves some subtraction and a lot of addition (or as the Mock Turtle would say some ‘Ambition and Distraction’) . Unfortunately what was added does not launch to compensate for what was left out, it only pads the running length.
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They added three scenes from ‘Through the Looking Glass’. Stuck between the ‘Lobster Quadrille’ and the ‘Who Stole the Tarts’ chapters are: ‘Tweedledum and Tweedledee’, ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, and ‘It’s My Occupy Invention’ with the White Knight. So the recent myth takes a not very spellbinding detour-although the Walrus-Carpenter bits are fun and it is animated to watch a pre-Hagrid Robbie Coltrane as Tweedledum. Fortunately they group the three scenes together and it is not as disruptive as placing them separately at different points in the memoir.
Historically, the model for the characters are the illustrations that Carroll commissioned John Tenniel to gash on wood blocks. Although Carroll based the personality of his title character on ten-year-old brunette Alice Liddell, Tenniel customary another model and gave the illustrated Alice her features and her long blonde hair. Although the movie generally deferred to Tenniel’s illustrations, they made a well-known error in casting Tina Majorino as Alice. She was 13-14 during the filming and looks ludicrous in the role. She was also quite hideous at that age and you are thankful that the director broken-down mostly wide shots so you don’t have her face filling the conceal. Thankfully her acting is so flat that she does not call noteworthy attention to herself. But the overall do would have been so distinguished better if they had aged a younger actress (could they have made it three years earlier and faded a 10-11 year-old Kiera Knightley) .
The movie works in spite of a unpleasant Alice, in vast fragment because of the other major deviation from the Tenniel study. That would be casting Miranda Richardson as the Queen of Hearts. Instead of a beefy and shocking queen we glean a delicately resplendent one, and a hauntingly over-the-top performance. But it works because the performance is consistent with Carroll’s belief of the queen as: ‘a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion-a blind and aimless Fury’.
And in her surreal make-up you can’t choose your eyes off Richardson (you literally focus on her face and ogle nothing else that is in the frame) . Her performance was so inspired that she has been playing fairy anecdote queens ever since.
All the Muppet characters are satisfactory but for some reason they made Bill the Lizard a man instead of a muppet lizard. Did the producer owe someone a favor? Bill’s scene at the Rabbits’s House is the third best in the movie; only the croquet match and the trial are better.
And they messed with Carroll’s dialogue for no useful purpose or discernible logic. For example they kept all the ‘Mock Turtle’s’ puns, which are hard to follow even in print, while deleting some of the best lines from Alice’s scene with the ‘Cheshire Cat’; and the tea-party dialogue (and editing) is a shambles. You can’t always protest when an unusual line was omitted but you can divulge when something was added by the hack they hired to do the adaptation-all are humdrum and some so unique that they are like hearing an off-key sign on a flute.
Carroll’s dialogue and Alice’s thoughts are really the essence of the record.
Someday a director will shoot this thing with mega-reaction shots of Alice (played by a fine looking ‘young’ actress) and with voiceovers of her thoughts-then we will have something that really communicates Alice’s curiosity, courage, kindness, intelligence, dignity, and sense of justice. Most famous is to communicate her simple wonder (the only wonder about Majorino is how she got the role) . The reader was meant to identify with these qualities but only Disney’s Alice effectively exhibited them. It’s murky when it is easier to identify with the book and with a cartoon Alice than with any of the actresses who have played the role.
Although some portion of each chapter is included (Down the Rabbit-Hole, The Pool of Tears, The Caucus-Race, Cramped Bill, Advice from a Caterpillar, Pig and Pepper, A Enraged Tea-Party, The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, The Mock Turtle’s Yarn, The Lobster Quadrille, Who Stole the Tarts, and Alice’s Evidence), the bookend pieces of the record where Alice is not dreaming are missing. Instead there is a ‘Wizard of Oz’ kind of scene with the actors out of costume, playing guests at a garden party. This is done entirely to tie in with the writer’s annoyingly artless addition of a preachy « the prove must go on » theme which works to deflate each scene in which it is inserted.
This is the only unforgivable change to the account. Wonderland was not a process of self-discovery or personal development, it was a gift to the genuine Alice (and to future children) and should always slay with the thoughts of Alice’s older sister after hearing the details of the dream: ‘Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same miniature sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman, and how she would retain, through all the years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would obtain about her other petite children, and obtain their eyes colorful and enthusiastic with many a curious myth, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and score a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her occupy child-life, and the elated summer days’. This is Carroll telling us why he made up the legend.
Bottom line it is the best of the Alice films, a exiguous too long but mild worth watching-especially for the Miranda Richardson scenes.
Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.
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