Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) | Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn

Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) | Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn | Fun Disney classic

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	Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn Walt Disney Home Video, 1998 average customer review:based on 217 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Trippy Before Its Time

I am forced to admit that Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" is dated by today's comparison of fantasy animation. But then again, historically, it was a wild film of its day. Although I'm 60 today, I can still sense Alice in Wonderland "trippy" effects, wild and really "out there." Better yet, this film can still stand up to "today's" trippy animation. It's a winner!

Fun Disney classic

A wonderful take on the Lewis Carroll tome, with the usual fun Disney touches, and family-friendly. A great time for everyone.

Alice and Wonderland

This was a great gift for my niece for Easter. She really loves the colors in this dvd.

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One of Disney's best...

Not going to go into an in-depth review. The Masterpiece Edition has a nice case and cool extras. One of my favorites.

DISNEY ON DRUGS: "ALICE" IS AN ENTERTAINING, BUT NEVER COHESIVE, MIXED BAG

The two DVD set of "Alice In Wonderland" (1951) comes fully loaded with diverting "extras." Yet nothing can disguise the fact that Walt Disney was clueless in terms of the story, and how to successfully adapt it to the animated film medium. Disney's most offbeat cartoon feature is a disconnected hodgepodge of episodes from Lewis Carroll's original book and its sequel "Through The Looking-Glass." It's all very, and strangely, entertaining, but it is never cohesive. Paramount's 1933 live-action B&W "Alice In Wonderland" (unavailable) also combines episodes from both books, but is much more faithful to Carroll. What went wrong here? Perhaps the story is just too odd and cold-- and not nearly as warm or inviting or emotionally involving as MGM's 1939 Classic "The Wizard Of Oz." But I think it has more to do with the fact that every Disney animated film,-- from "Snow White" to "Cinderella", to "Alice In Wonderland" to "Peter Pan" and beyond-- forces the original story to undergo a process I've come to call "Disneyfication." With "Alice", critics seriously grumbled for the first time, but certainly not the last time, that Disney was violating classic literature. The same charge was also brought against the "Disneyfication" of "Peter Pan"-- although "Peter Pan" is a slightly more successful adaptation.
As for the DVD Extras: Two vintage TV programs show Kathryn Beaumont, the excellent voice and model for Alice, in full costume and character, and a deleted song details the close connection between "Alice" and "Peter Pan." Beaumont was also the voice and model for Wendy in "Peter Pan." Forget the kids; there are kicks galore for adults here. The overall DVD package is a loopy mixed bag filled with not-so-subtextual drug references. A lot of others-- Lewis Carroll, Disney and his Staff-- obviously ate and drank strange stuff along with Alice.

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