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Alice In Wonderland [1951] [DVD]

DVD ~ Hamilton Luske|Clyde Geronimi|Kathryn Beaumont|Ed Wynn
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hamilton Luske|Clyde Geronimi|Kathryn Beaumont|Ed Wynn
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Feb 1999
  • Run Time: 72 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CXYP
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,517 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Imaginatively rendered but slightly chilly, this 1951 Disney adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is also appropriately surreal. Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) has all the anticipated experiences: shrinking and growing, meeting the White Rabbit, having tea with the Mad Hatter, and so on. The characterisation is very strong, illustrating how hard the Disney team worked to bring screen personality to Carroll's eccentric creations. For a Disney film, however, it seems more the self-satisfied sum of its inventiveness than a truly engaging experience. --Tom Keogh


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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Follow the white rabbit Neo - no sorry, I mean Alice, 22 Jul 2004
By Amanda Richards "Hotpurplekoolaid" (ECD, Guyana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alice in Wonderland [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I just spent a couple of hours looking at this wonderful movie and the extra features. The aptly named Masterpiece Edition is worth every penny, and like The Matrix, should be included in any movie collection, whether you have a child to hide behind or not.

Beautifully adapted and animated from Lewis Carroll's highly imaginative, high-trippin' classic, the imagery and illustrated puns amaze and amuse, especially the little things like the rocking-horse fly, the bread-and-butter flies, the vultures, the pencil and hammer birds, the momeraths, and the bird in the tree (Queenie Leonard) yelling "Ser-peeeeeeeent !"

The animators drew each frame based on the portrayals by the actors voicing the parts, and the stand-outs are Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, Bill Thompson as the White Rabbit, and the very flexible and versatile J. Pat O'Malley as Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee, the Walrus AND the Carpenter, in one of the best scenes in the movie.

With fourteen songs, this is the most musical Disney around, but unfortunately, the songs are not very easy to sing along to, making me sound like William Hung every time I try to impress people with my thorough knowledge of the lyrics.

There are lots of interesting tidbits in the extras, such as the discarded Cheshire Cat song, and the fact that one of the songs was later re-worded for Peter Pan. There are other links between Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, but you'll have to watch the extras to find out just what, cause I'm not telling.

For those who don't want to watch the previews at the beginning of the DVD, just press "Menu" and get plugged directly into Wonderland.

Amanda Richards, July 18, 2004

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars classic disney, 28 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Alice In Wonderland [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
this is the disney classic brought to you in the new medium tidied up print for DVD. great songs and had my 3 year old daughter enthralled. Bonus material includes a Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the looking glass, tarilers, a documentary on 'the making off' from 1951 and an art gallery
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars More Disney than Carroll, 9 Feb 2002
By Dennis E. Sisterson (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alice In Wonderland [DVD] [1951] (DVD)
An entertaining and inventive interpretetion of Lewis Carroll's book, albeit one which neglects most of the author's clever logic-play in favour of mere absurdity. Certainly not the definitive version of the book - which has yet to be made - but a fun film.
Incidentally the studio's attitiude towards the source text might be guessed at by the fact that the opening credits not only get the name of the book wrong - they also mis-spell the author's name!
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