Alicia I love this movie so much

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Eric Stevenson I wouldn't recommend this version, but I wouldn't say I hate it either. I guess it was just mediocre. I guess the good technically outweighed the bad. The reason I saw this was because it was the longest film version of "Alice In Wonderland". It was weird, because I was expecting this big epic movie. Of course, the Tim Burton movie version and its sequel didn't do it very well. I think this is probably better than those. It seems to capture the spirit of the book more. I really should get around to reading the book.I believe I've seen every movie version of it now and I can easily say the Disney version is the best one. One fault with this movie was how it was, well, too long. It's not a complicated story and it just seems to go on too long. I guess that might be justified in adapting a book, but other versions have done it better. The puppets are pretty good. I am really freaked out by Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire cat. She looks really scary looking and that's actually probably the worst thing about the movie! Still, it's great to see such a cast of talented actors. I found out this was Gene Wilder's last movie and may he rest in peace. **1/2

gcd70 Enormous cast (including Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd and George Wendt) conspire to waste their collective talent on this dreary homage to Lewis Carroll's famous children's fable. Goldberg grins like an idiot throughout, while the rest of the cast behave similarly. Tina Majorino is at odds as to what she should be doing with her lost Alice. Gene Wilder does his usual comic turn as the mock-turtle, while Martin Short is the only shining light as none other than the mad hatter.Whatever fun the cast had making the film does not appear evident on screen. Perhaps they had no fun at all.Saturday, July 31, 1999 - T.V.

vip_ebriega My Take: A visually-entertaining made-for-TV effort.When I watched this movie when I was a kid, I really loved it. And it didn't differ when I grew up. I still love this movie. It's so abundant in ideas and imaginative wonder, also sharing the imagery of Lewis Carroll's classic story. It stars a very familiar cast. Their's Miranda Richardson (Queen of Hearts), Christopher Lloyd (White Knight), Ben Kingsley (Sgt. Caterpillar), Robbie Coltrane (Ned Tweddledum), Martin Short (Mad Hatter), Gene Wilder (Mock Turtle), Pete Postletwaite (Carpenter), Peter Ustinov (Walrus) and of course, Whoopi Goldberg as the mysterious Cheshire Cat. Tina Majorino is perfect as Alice, with a fine British accent to fit her role. I remember seeing her younger in Kevin Costner's "Waterworld", but she was quite memorable, for me, in this film. The strange creatures and make-up effects are great too, as supplied by the artists at Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Not the best in a long line of 'Alice' adaptations, but it's curious settings and trippy characters is faithful to the pages of Carroll's classic story. TV movie rating: ***1/2 out of 5.

mail-1208 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.