Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

In 1951 Walt Disney and co. Surprised the masses by opting to adapt Lewis Carroll's hallucinogenic mind-trip Alice in Wonderland into an animated feature film. More surprising still is great it turned out to be.Alice in Wonderland follows our young heroine bored of her monotonous everyday lessons. She spots on odd looking White Rabbit and follows it into a hole, she falls into Wonderland, a world of nonsense. She finds herself lost and surrounded by a cast of bizarre and puzzling characters.Alice in Wonderland is top notch entertainment. The animation is gorgeous, even 67 years later. The music is perfect, every song is great and memorable. The characters are brilliant. Cheshire Cat, Mad hatter, March Hare, The Dodo Bird, the list goes on and on. Every character is fun and memorable. This film is also filled with plenty of fun and quotable lines. I find that I quote fun lines from this film more then any other Disney film.On top of that they weave her hallucinogenic trip into an important life-lesson for children to learn.Personally I find this to be a perfect piece of animation.

When I was six, I had my tonsils out. The anaesthetist used ether and I hallucinated. My mother had bought me two comic books. One was Krazy Kat and the other the Disney "Alice in Wonderland." If you wanted something to set you up for delirium try those on for size. When I finally saw the movie, I was reminded of those subconscious images. This is an excellent animated film. I love its hard edge and portrayal of Lewis Carol's characters. It also features some wonderful songs. The Queen of Hearts is maniacal and the Mad Hatter diabolical. All the images of random craziness are in here, brought to life with artistic skill, making them unforgettable images.

Alice is a daydreaming young girl. She finds learning poems and listening to literature boring. She prefers stories with pictures and to live inside her imagination. One day, while enduring just such a poetry reading, she spots a large white rabbit...dressed in a jacket and carrying a large watch. He scurries off, saying he's late, for a very important date. She follows him through the forest. He then disappears down a rabbit hole. Alice follows, leading her to all manner of discoveries, characters and adventures.A wonderful, imaginative adaptation of Lew Carroll's famous novel. Captures well the sheer randomness, weirdness and wonder of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.Great animation, even by today's standards. But, then again, this is a Walt Disney production, so that is a given.Voices are spot-on. Kathryn Beaumont, at 12/13 years old, shines as Alice. Disney must have liked her performance too - she provided the voice of Wendy in Peter Pan, two years later.The quintessential adaptation.

Classic Disney adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous story may not please all purists but, for my money, it's the best film version of the story yet. For those who don't know the tale, it's about a young girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole and winds up in a strange world full of bizarre, colorful characters. As with most of the great Disney animated films from the Golden Age, two of the main pluses here are the lively songs and the gorgeous animation, with rich colors and some beautiful backgrounds. Of the songs, my favorite is "All in a Golden Afternoon." The movie's full of memorable characters like the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts. Terrific voice work from Kathryn Beaumont, Sterling Holloway, Richard Hayden, Ed Wynn, J. Pat O'Malley, Verna Felton, and many others. It's one of those movies everyone should see at least once, preferably when you're still young enough to be wowed by its charms. Like many others, I first saw it as a kid and it left a great impression on me. I still enjoy it as an adult, but on a different level.