Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

betty dalton "Alice" suffers from an undramatic storyline. There is drama alright, but it is immediately sugarcoated. So this movie wanders a bit between wanting to be a comedy (without great jokes, bummer) and wanting to be dramatic, but served with too much sugar on top. It is still charming, acting is great, soundtrack is lovely. It is still a lovely Woody Allen film, but the sum total just falls flat. The mood of this picture is almost identical to the boring life style Alice is leading. She has got everything she could desire for moneywise, but she feels unfulfilled. She visits a chinese doctor who prescribes for her a special herbal medicine, which makes her invisible. Yes, that sounds silly. It is silly, but this is suppose to be the fun part. And although being invisible triggers some jokes, it becomes somewhat childish too after the first gimmick of being invisible has worn off. However new opportunities open up with these invisible making chinese medicine. Her life becomes adventurous again. But not without having to face some losses too...As I said at the very start. This movie just doesnt reach the quality of Woody Allen's earlier work. There are much better dramatic and funny pictures of Woody Allen to be found. Watch "Hannah and her Sisters" for a much better drama about marital betrayal. Watch " Purple Rose of Cairo" for a much better romantic comedy. And dont forget about some other classics that you must give a try because director and writer Woody Allen has made such a wonderful line of work. Really anything from the eighties down to the seventies is worth watching. Halfway through the nineties Woody Allen lost some of his magic touch that sparkled so brightly in his older work. "Alice" is still a charming picture. More senior older people who are first time viewers will surely enjoy this movie. But for younger people who long for more romance or comedy or long for more true to life drama there are a lot of much better Woody Allen films out there.

HotToastyRag When I first saw Alice, I didn't know it was a Woody Allen movie, but I can imagine if I'd been expecting the usual stammering joke fest, I might have wondered where Woody's influence went. He doesn't always make strict comedies, though, and this movie proves it.Mia Farrow and William Hurt are married, have two children, and live the high-life. But Mia, in the title role, is unsatisfied and she doesn't know why. She visits a Chinese acupuncturist to help with some back pain and enters a journey of self-discovery.Mia does a wonderful job in this slightly off-beat flick. Just as in The Purple Rose of Cairo when she rises above an unhappy marriage and finds herself, she expresses curiosity, sadness, hope, and invigoration all at the right times. I happen to be a Mia Farrow fan, so I was expecting to like this movie, but my mom doesn't like her nearly as much as I do, and she still really enjoyed Alice. As always in Woody Allen movies, there's a large cast, and this one includes Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Cybill Shepherd, Joe Montegna, June Squibb, Julie Kavner, Bernadette Peters, Gwen Verdon, and Bob Balaban. Alice is thoughtful and sweet, and a great movie to watch when you're pondering the universe.

morrison-dylan-fan With a poll being held on IMDb's Classic Film board for the best titles of 1990,I decided to take a look at Woody Allen's IMDb page.Discovering that Allen had made a film which appears to have become almost forgotten about,I decided that it would be a good time to find out if Alice did live here anymore.The plot:Taking her kids to school, socialite Alice Tate runs into a handsome man dropping his kid off at the school.With having been married to Doug for 16 years,Alice's life has become one that is focused on material possessions,partly related to the spark in her marriage having burnt out long ago.Talking to her friends about feeling attracted to someone other than Doug,Alice's friends advise her to a herbalist doctor called Yang.Meeting Yang,Alice starts to tell Yang about the sudden feeling that are developing.After getting Alice to reveal her inner feeling via hypnosis,Yang gives Alice a packet of herbs,which he claims will make her act on her impulsive feelings.Taking all the herbs,Alice soon enters a new & exciting wonderland.View on the film:Staying behind the camera,writer/director Woody Allen and cinematographer Carlo Di Palma use superbly-handled tracking shots to show all of the material possessions being at a distance from the "real" Alice.Sliding the movie into wonderful flights of fantasy,Allen dips into Alice's mind by startling infer red flashbacks,and a visit from a Ghost of Christmas Past-style character.Despite filming not being the easiest experience, (with Allen checking himself into hospital,shortly after finishing the films multiple re-shoots) the screenplay by Allen expertly cracks the shell of Alice's high-end,shallow life,thanks to Allen showing the riches to have drained any excitement from Alice's life.Enchanting Alice (and the audience) with the appearance of Dr.Yang,Allen reveals a real joy in taking advantage of the fantasy opportunity,as Allen uses Yang's herbs to take Alice from being invisible,to flying across a vast city.Made just before he passed away, Keye Luke gives a splendid performance as Yang,with Luke giving Yang a real sense of excitement,over helping Alice to peel away to her true self.Whilst her performance does contain some hints of being twee,Mia Farrow does very well at keeping Alice largely on the charming side,with Farrow giving Alice an excellent nervous energy,as Alice starts to turn away from her closed-in life,and begins to look into the looking glass.

movie reviews Alice (Mia Farrow) is a guileless rich New York housewife who shops looks beautiful for her husband Doug (William Hurt) and takes care of her kids from time to time.She encounter Joe Mantenga at her children's school and is smitten...through the help of a Chinese acupuncturist herbalist hypnotist she embarks on a magical odyssey and discovers what her real values are.It is a unique and creative movie where by Alice appears invisible is able to fly with ghosts and other things much like Alice in Wonderland.There are a couple funny lines but this is not a comedy...it treats with a light touch matters such as fidelity in a far more palatable manner (in my opinion) than the contemporary dreadfully serious (and lousy) film by Allen entitled: Another Woman.Prepare to be entertained and left also with feelings a drama might leave as well... perfect.About the only reservations I have is Allen's constant dated use of upper middle class pseudo intellectual (for want of a better phrase) New Yorkers...you get the opinion he takes them as important social markers for his own prestige. But then one must remember that Allen was born in 1935 he is essentially of another generation one where divorce fidelity and upper middle class props were boiler plate and serious frameworks.