Tim Raynor
Didn???t ???Jefferson Airplane??? make a song based off this movie? I think it was called, ???Go Ask Alice???? This film has so many innuendos of the drug culture it makes me wonder what Walt and his team were doing in those days. It is certainly a daring film for the time it was created, but, nevertheless, one of my least favorite of the Disney lot.
The story is strange, bizarre, somewhat subdued, but it is never really clever and even more so pointless. Maybe it???s for the best since the entire film is based solely on Alice in the middle of her own dream. Anyone???s dream is hard enough to figure out, so don???t even try to understand this movie. ???Alice in Wonderland??? is full of some wonderful animation, and an endless sea of LSD imagination. There is plenty of singing; however, most of the music is a bit too old fashioned for my taste. I really don???t like any singing in animated movies, but, if I were too choose, I???d end up picking Disney films with a little more upbeat tunes, such as, ???Jungle Book,??? ???Aladdin,??? or ???Lion King.???
Since having a daughter around for the last eleven years I???ve built up an extensive library of Disney on VHS. Some of them I???ve managed to replace with the DVD versions. However, Alice will have to wait quite a while before I get the urge to replace her. There are far, too, many other Disney movies I???m more fond of that need updating to DVD.
For the most part, it isn???t that ???Alice in Wonderland??? is an awful movie, and I was intrigued by the whole theme; however, it???s just not the better of Disney classics. Had it packed a little more energy and spunk I may have been a bit more entertained. Unfortunately, it comes across strange, diluted, and mediocre work from an animation studio that have done far better classics.
6/10
The story is strange, bizarre, somewhat subdued, but it is never really clever and even more so pointless. Maybe it???s for the best since the entire film is based solely on Alice in the middle of her own dream. Anyone???s dream is hard enough to figure out, so don???t even try to understand this movie. ???Alice in Wonderland??? is full of some wonderful animation, and an endless sea of LSD imagination. There is plenty of singing; however, most of the music is a bit too old fashioned for my taste. I really don???t like any singing in animated movies, but, if I were too choose, I???d end up picking Disney films with a little more upbeat tunes, such as, ???Jungle Book,??? ???Aladdin,??? or ???Lion King.???
Since having a daughter around for the last eleven years I???ve built up an extensive library of Disney on VHS. Some of them I???ve managed to replace with the DVD versions. However, Alice will have to wait quite a while before I get the urge to replace her. There are far, too, many other Disney movies I???m more fond of that need updating to DVD.
For the most part, it isn???t that ???Alice in Wonderland??? is an awful movie, and I was intrigued by the whole theme; however, it???s just not the better of Disney classics. Had it packed a little more energy and spunk I may have been a bit more entertained. Unfortunately, it comes across strange, diluted, and mediocre work from an animation studio that have done far better classics.
6/10
