Alice in Wonderland

UPC: 786936801811

Studio: Walt Disney

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Excellent For Children]

Summary: This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Chasing after the White Rabbit, who runs into view singing "I'm Late! I'm Late!," Alice falls down the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy alternate world of Wonderland. She grows and shrinks after following the instructions of a haughty caterpillar, attends a "Very Merry Unbirthday" party in the garden of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, stands in awe as the Cheshire Cat spouts philosophy, listens in rapt attention as Tweedledum and Tweedledee relate the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter (a sequence usually cut when Alice is shown on TV), and closes out her day with a hectic croquet game at the home of the Red Queen. The music and production design of Alice in Wonderland is marvelous, but the film is too much of a good thing, much too frantic to do full honor to the whimsical Carroll original, and far too episodic to hang together as a unified feature film. One tactical error is having Alice weep at mid-point, declaring her wish to go home: This is Alice in Wonderland, Walt, not Wizard of Oz! Its storytelling shortcomings aside, Alice in Wonderland is superior family entertainment (never mind the efforts in the 1970s to palm off the picture as a psychedelic "head" film). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Awards: Best Musical Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Disc 1: Deleted scene: "Pig and Pepper"
"Reflections on Alice" featurette
Virtual Wonderland party
Disc #2: An Alice comedy: "Alice's Wonderland"
"From Wonderland to never land"
Original theatrical soundtrack

Alice in Wonderland

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/30/2010

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 75 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Alice in Wonderland (Feature)
1. Opening Credits ("Alice In Wonderland")
2. Alice's History Lesson
3. "In A World Of My Own"
4. The White Rabbit ("I'm Late")
5. Curiouser And Curiouser
6. The Bottle On the Table
7. Through the Keyhole In a Bottle
8. Alice Meets Tweedledee and Tweedledum ("How D'Ye Do and Shake Hands")
9. "The Walrus and The Carpenter"
10. The White Rabbit's House
11. A Lizard With a Ladder
12. A Garden Of Talking Flowers
13. "All In The Golden Afternoon"
14. Advice From a Caterpillar
15. More Ups and Downs For Alice
16. The Cheshire Cat
17. A Mad Tea Party ("The Unbirthday Song")
18. Who's Got the Time?
19. The Tulgey Wood
20. "Very Good Advice"
21. The Cheshire Cat Again
22. "Painting The Roses Red"
23. The Match Of the Cards
24. The Queen Of Hearts
25. A Game Of Croquet
26. Alice's Trail
27. The Chase

Craig Butler

Not fully appreciated upon its initial release by either critics or audiences, Alice in Wonderland has grown in stature over the years. Its primary failing is that its conventional approach (in both script and design) fails to capture the special dreamlike quality of the Lewis Carroll source material. However, on its own terms, the film is enormously entertaining. The animation is top-notch throughout, but especially so in the sequences involving the Cheshire Cat, the climactic card chase, Alice's many changes of size, and the wonderful Mad Hatter tea party. The actors providing the voices are extremely well cast and are responsible for a great deal of the film's success. Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna capture the inspired lunacy of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare respectively, and Sterling Holloway is an appropriately disturbing Cheshire Cat. Kathryn Beaumont's Alice is charming, stubborn, bewildered, bossy, prissy, obedient, polite, and irritated by turns, and Beaumont makes the many swift changes believable. Also noteworthy is the score, most of which consists of very short and sometimes incomplete numbers, but still is quite beguiling. Pay special attention to the lovely "In a World of My Own" and the lush "All in the Golden Afternoon." Although Alice in Wonderland may have been taken somewhat for granted originally, the next films for this directing triumvirate -- Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp -- would be recognized immediately as animated classics. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Pat O'Malley  Actor 
Hamilton Luske  Actor 
Pat O'Malley  Actor 
Pat O'Malley  Actor 
Wilfred Jackson  Actor 
Bill Thompson  Actor 
Milt Banta  Screenwriter 
Del Connell  Screenwriter 
Bill Cottrell  Screenwriter 
Walt Disney  Producer 
Clyde Geronimi  Director 
Joe Grant  Screenwriter 
Winston Hibler  Screenwriter 
Dick Huemer  Screenwriter 
Wilfred Jackson  Director 
Sol Kaplan  Composer (Music Score) 
Dick Kelsey  Screenwriter 
Hamilton Luske  Director 
Tom Oreb  Screenwriter 
Bill Peet  Screenwriter 
Erdman Penner  Screenwriter 
Joe Rinaldi  Screenwriter 
Ted Sears  Screenwriter 
John Walbridge  Screenwriter 
Oliver Wallace  Composer (Music Score) 
Kathryn Beaumont  Actor 
Ed Wynn  Actor 
Richard Haydn  Actor 
Sterling Holloway  Actor 
Jerry Colonna  Actor 
Verna Felton  Actor 
Pat O'Malley  Actor 
Bill Thompson  Actor 
Heather Angel  Actor 
Joseph Kearns  Actor 
Larry Grey  Actor 
Queenie Leonard  Actor 
Dink Trout  Actor 
Doris Lloyd  Actor 
James MacDonald  Actor 
The Mello Men  Actor 
Don Barclay  Actor 

Country: USA