{"id":22791,"date":"2016-10-16T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22791"},"modified":"2016-10-16T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T20:01:20","slug":"alice-in-wonderland-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/16\/alice-in-wonderland-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Wonderland (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aliceinwonderland1951\"<\/a>Disney\u2019s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll\u2019s \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d is perhaps one of their most iconic animated productions. And yet it\u2019s one of my least favorite Disney films of all time. More so than \u201cHunchback of Notre Dame\u201d even. Alice, as played by Kathryn Beaumont, is a restless British girl who falls down a rabbit hole when she attempts to chase a talking rabbit who is insistent on reaching an appointment. After falling down a rabbit hole, she enters in to Wonderland where nothing is ever what it quite seems in her world. Up is down, big is small, and everything garners some sense of sentience that makes her exploration of this world even more menacing and baffling than she imagined.<\/p>\n

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Along the way, Alice encounters a series of unusual characters including the mischievous Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and twins Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Along the way she arouses the wrath of the dictatorial Queen of Hearts, who insists Alice remain subservient or lose her head. Meanwhile, directors Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske have a good time playing with the environment of Wonderland, making every seemingly mundane element in to an aspect of the environment Alice must be wary of. There was always just something about \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d that never clicked with me. It\u2019s not only much too short, but a lot of the attempted eccentricity that Lewis Carroll spewed forth is lost in the translation of Disney\u2019s animated style and music.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d was always that movie I watched as a kid when there was absolutely nothing on television, and it made for a mediocre diversion. Years later, it\u2019s still<\/strong><\/em> a mediocre diversion, and<\/strong><\/em> a pretty sub-par Disney production that also never quite realizes the scope of Wonderland on the animated medium. There\u2019s just something so shrill about this version of \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d despite the sheer limitless potential for Wonderland to be another brilliant landscape in the vein of Neverland or the Hundred Acre Woods. I respect \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d for its legacy and catchy musical numbers, but overall it\u2019s one of Disney\u2019s lesser quality animated adaptations.<\/p>\n