Kristyna Kohoutova, Camilla Power

A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the c...( read more  read more... )omplex (the White Rabbit) to the incredibly simple (the Caterpillar, consisting of a sock, a couple of glass eyes and a pair of false teeth). The original story is followed reasonably faithfully, though those familiar with this director's other films won't be the least bit surprised by the numerous digressions into Svankmajer territory, living slabs of meat and all. As the opening narration says, it's a film made for children... perhaps?

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Unrated, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Jan Svankmajer

Release Date: January 1, 1988

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DVD Release Date: April 11, 2000

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  • November 11, 2008
    This movie was as awesome in parts as it was tedious. But it was an experience as necessary as Death bed. The props and sets were really cool, and I only wish there were a bigger budget to supplement the director's uncanny creativity. The pacing, dubbing, and sound effects wore m...( read more)e down.

    P.S. Make sure to watch the short after the credits--it's my single favorite part of the movie.
  • October 22, 2008
    Not really a review but just a feedback:

    Well, this one is definitely an old, bizzare, dark film version of Alice in wonderland, but I feel like the stop motion animation, acting and the filming techniques used in this movie was just too old even for my generation to watch...( read more).

    The stop motion animation kinda reminded me of the overly jurrasic, black and white gojira and king kong movies theyd show on sunday nights when I was a kid.

    Perhaps I wouldve appreciated this better if I had been able to watch it back in the late 80s - early 90s or something..
  • September 9, 2008
    a most bizarre and wonderful take on lewis carroll's surreal classic. genius stop-motion animation. pretty sure it's not for everyone and definitely not for children
  • August 2, 2008
    Certainly some neat old skool stop and go animation. The movie would have gotten a solid 4 stars had they not ruined the movie with their "artsy" style of ALWAYS putting a shot of Alice's mouth saying something like "said the white rabbit" after EVERY SINGLE line of dialog throu...( read more)ghout the whole movie. Once was enough, and after a while it was just stupid. Otherwise it was neat to see a taxidermy rabbit cutting off the heads of marionettes.
  • March 31, 2008
    An interesting (and at times visually disturbing) ADULT version of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland'. And by "ADULT", I mean it will probably be too freaky (and possibly nightmare inducing) for the average child.

    It succeeds (for the most part) in "out surrealing' the org...( read more)inal story and putting a very creepy spin on it, by using lots of stop motion animation to bring to life an eclectic array of inanimate objects (largely taxidermied animals) as the charaters of the story.

    The are a few moments in the film where it felt that the director was trying a bit too hard to be quirky/surreal, but all in all it was a very interesting an enjoyable journey.
  • November 19, 2009
    It made me slightly uncomfortable, for a few reasons. In some parts, because it didn't feel like it was going anywhere ("I want a clean cup!"), other times because it was just plain creepy ("I want a clean cup!"). Good ending though.
  • November 8, 2009
    Ce film m'a vraiment marquée!!!
  • November 4, 2009
    Fantastica en el surrealismo!
  • October 13, 2009

  • October 12, 2009
    Very tedious and very bizarre. Maybe one day I will make alice movies.. there can never be to many.. :p

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  • inuyashagirl2
    December 3, 2006
    this is one of my favs. it todally is full of darkness and weird scenes full of dead animals and twisted stuff. this is truly a dark and demented classic!

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