Very funny to open an Alice In Wonderland adaptation with a shout out to the NRA as well as a year-book like credits sequence where you can see such featured players as “Mouse” and “Frog” but really all in all this is a pretty cute and unique adaptation. There are some really creative liberties taken and the jump in possible effects is really impressive (especially from the last one that was just from two years prior). A lot of the sets are legitimately really great, as is the use of scale. The costumes feel like a mix of the 1915 one and the 1931 version, and I’d still say I prefer the 1915 ones for the some of them but there are a lot that feel like improvements (I really love the frog). The Cheshire Cat is also really brilliant, I was surprised how great he looked! Feels like such a massive leap in just around fifteen years (clearly ignoring the previous one which seems like a fluke of some kind).
Id say there are still some things I prefer of the 1915 one, but there are some notable things that I think push this version over the edge, like its sense of humour. It’s by far the funniest of all three so far. Also just the amount of neat technical improvements make it really enjoyable, especially off the backs of the last two. No clue how this looks so good when the 1931 one felt so cheap and drab. This felt like it was actually taking advantage of the fact of being a talkie! And it’s just creative, when the Walrus and Oyster cartoon started I was so pleasantly surprised. I’d say that those little fun touches help really sell the imagination and sAnyway, I’d even go as far to say that in many ways this feels like a precourser in form to The Wizard Of Oz, which is a really high compliment since that’s sort of the gold standard. Quite good!
Extra points for Cary Grant as the turtle because he genuinely touched my heart a little bit.
Very funny to open an Alice In Wonderland adaptation with a shout out to the NRA as well as a year-book like credits sequence where you can see such featured players as “Mouse” and “Frog” but really all in all this is a pretty cute and unique adaptation. There are some really creative liberties taken and the jump in possible effects is really impressive (especially from the last one that was just from two years prior). A lot of the sets are legitimately really great, as is the use of scale. The costumes feel like a mix of the 1915 one and the 1931 version, and I’d still say I prefer the 1915 ones for the some of them but there are a lot that feel like improvements (I really love the frog). The Cheshire Cat is also really brilliant, I was surprised how great he looked! Feels like such a massive leap in just around fifteen years (clearly ignoring the previous one which seems like a fluke of some kind).
Id say there are still some things I prefer of the 1915 one, but there are some notable things that I think push this version over the edge, like its sense of humour. It’s by far the funniest of all three so far. Also just the amount of neat technical improvements make it really enjoyable, especially off the backs of the last two. No clue how this looks so good when the 1931 one felt so cheap and drab. This felt like it was actually taking advantage of the fact of being a talkie! And it’s just creative, when the Walrus and Oyster cartoon started I was so pleasantly surprised. I’d say that those little fun touches help really sell the imagination and sAnyway, I’d even go as far to say that in many ways this feels like a precourser in form to The Wizard Of Oz, which is a really high compliment since that’s sort of the gold standard. Quite good!
Extra points for Cary Grant as the turtle because he genuinely touched my heart a little bit.
