Alice in Wonderland (1999)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

one of my absolute favorites!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

If one looks at this version of Alice in Wonderland - a star studded 3 hour mini series or a cut down 2 hour standalone movie - in isolation from Lewis Carroll's book(s), then one must come to the conclusion that it is an excellent piece of work - imaginative, beautifully designed, showcasing some stunning effects work, and populated with very good performances.But it is almost impossible to look at an adaptation of Carroll's work without comparing it to the source material and, notwithstanding the strengths of the adaptation, one's attention is always drawn to the differences. And those differences (which, the makers will surely argue, are there because a literary work cannot be adapted literally for the screen) always - for Alice, always - are for the worse. The additions to the story - poor. The non-Carroll dialogue - poor. The inconsistent visualisation of characters - disconcerting and varying between good and poor.Tina Majorino's Alice is a long way from my personal envisaged Alice, but is nonetheless very good. Her English accent is excellent.

This may be one of the great unknown or under-appreciated films. I am a big fan of Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", and for near perfect translation of the former, this is the only live-action film to compete with Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and to do so more faithfully to the book without glaring omissions and amalgamations between the two works. The cast is marvelous featuring Tina Majorino as the titular character (you may know her most famously from Napoleon Dynamite) with perhaps the film's best performance from a perfect Mad Hatter played by Martin Short. The special effects are impressive for a 1999 TV movie and the imaginative sets and costumes are clearly inspired by the original Sir John Tenniel sketches, going as far as including the heads-to-large-for-their-bodies proportions. I would be remiss to neglect mentioning the astounding work of Jim Henson's Puppet Studio to masterfully bring Carrol's creatures to life, from the White Rabbit to the Gryphon. I give a ten without a hint of hyperbole, for as far as a live action film adaption of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland goes, I eagerly await Tim Burton's attempt to see if this can be topped.

What could have been a magic Alice using the formula of top Stars in the cameo roles as in the 1933 version, is dulled by excessive length and an unnecessary sub plot, concerning Alice's shyness in performing a song for a family gathering.Also combining scenes from Through the Looking Glass while pleasant in themselves, extends the running time, and the pedestrian pace of the film. Sure there are some magic moments, and fortunately the designers have called upon Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for their characters, and the dialog when it is from Lewis Carroll's text is happily nonsense. It is bits that are not by Carroll that detract sadly.It could have been much better, and even Tina Majorino doesn't make an especially attractive Alice. Perhaps re-editing it down to about 90 minutes would make it a winner, but we'll never know. A pity because some of the segments are very good indeed, with guests like Whoopy Goldberg, Martin Short, Ben Kingsley, Miranda Richardson, Peter Ustinov, and Pete Postlethwaite enjoying themselves immensely

It's very good but I know the books too well to accept all the changes. I was really hoping for what amounts to a literal interpretation of the books.I have a big problem with the combining of both stories. Disney did it and I was hoping this one wouldn't. When you mix the two, both stories are diluted. "Through the Looking Glass" is a sequel both written and set a number of years after "Alice in Wonderland". The feel of each is quite different.I really wish the characters had said exactly what was written in the books. They were written in Victorian England and the style is a bit dated, but completely understandable. Lewis Carroll could have been writing screenplays.The cast is superb. No disappointments there. Highlights are Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle, Christopher Lloyd, perfect as the White Knight, Martin Short as the Mad Hatter and George Wendt and Robbie Coltrane as Tweedledum and Tweedledee.The thing I really couldn't stand was the attempt to string all the experiences together with a storyline about Alice performing in front of family members. In Lewis Carroll's own opinion, the stories are pure nonsense, so to try to make sense of them is pointless.I hope that someone finally makes the literal interpretation of each book that I want, with two separate movies. Each book is short, so the film-maker could spend the length of the movie faithfully recreating them.