Product description

Alice In Wonderland (Special Edition) [DVD]

Price: £13.70
RRP: £17.99
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 5017188813532
Label : Walt Disney Home Video
Manufacturer : Walt Disney Home Video
Publisher : Walt Disney Home Video
Release date : 2005-04-11
Title : Alice In Wonderland (Special Edition) [DVD]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Universal, suitable for all
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Region code : 2
Running time : 75
Studio : Walt Disney Home Video

Customer reviews

review by: nisciun date: 2009-05-28 rating:

alice wonderland dvd
Packaging was perfect, and the dvd as well. After about 7 working days i received it from UK to Italy. Not bad at all!This classic movie is not available in Italy now, and it was the only way to get it (for a present) before next issue by walt disney.

review by: date: 2009-03-24 rating:

Disnay Alice,
Disappointing in many ways, the figures owed nothing to Tenniel, as an Alice fan I think the bbc did it better; however, the songs were great.

review by: date: 2008-12-12 rating:

"Mustard? Now Let's Not Be Silly."
One day while Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) is trying to pay attention to her lessons, she sees a White Rabbit (Bill Thompson) go by. This is no ordinary White Rabbit, however. He's looking at his pocket watch and worrying about being late. Curious, Alice follows him only to fall down a hole and land in Wonderland. br / br /And what sort of place is Wonderland? It's a place where anything and everything can talk. Besides the animals, we've got a talking doorknob. Eating and drinking can make Alice grow and shrink. As she tries to follow the White Rabbit and find out where he is going, she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee (J. Pat O'Malley), joins an Unbirthday Party with the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn) and the March Hare (Jerry Colonna), has a couple run ins with the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), gets lost in a strange wood, and has plays crochet with the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton). Will she ever get home? br / br /It had been years since I'd seen this, so I had forgotten just how many songs there are in the movie. Just about every character sings one at some point. But there is a reason you don't remember most of them. They're just okay. br / br /Really, this movie is just a series of adventures loosely held together by the White Rabbit. While that works for the books this movie is based on, it doesn't work quite as well here. I tend to get bored before we meet up with the Queen. Still, there are several funny scenes and several enjoyable songs. br / br /Honestly, I enjoyed it more then I remember enjoying it. The kids will particularly love this wacky tale.

review by: Tom Thatcher date: 2008-09-26 rating:

Exceptional rendition of classic story
It is almost unbelievable, but a cursory reading of some of the reviews would suggest that some Amazon customers have not read, or even heard of, the Lewis Carroll classics "Alice Through The Looking Glass" and "Alice In Wonderland." br / br /This film is one of the most mature and thoughtful of all Disney films, and manages to capture some of the dreamy, frightening, enchanting and nightmarish atmosphere of the books. Alice is a children's story in name only: it is best described as a semi-benign nightmare of epic proportions. br / br /Alice's chase down the rabbit hole leads to her encounters with many odd characters culled from both books, from Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee to the Walrus and the Carpenter to the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar. Much has been made of the caterpillar with the hookah, not without some justification, one feels, and likewise the Cheshire Cat - all very surreal and distant. When Alice grows very quickly after eating the biscuit, the next 10 minutes of images are beyond all doubt of an extremely lewd nature, and once you have grasped this it becomes very obvious. I am astonished that Disney got away with it as it is so blatant, but it is charmingly done ..... I have always thought this but have seen it suggested elsewhere in print only recently. br / br /The music in the DVD is very good and the voices are just superb. Alice's precise, confused, petulant and adolescent nature is well-captured by the ever-excellent Kathryn Beaumont. Disney Stalwart Pat O'Malley sings and acts his way through the film in superb form (T Dum and T Dee, Walrus and Carpenter)and Sterling Holloway is as classy as ever. Songs that really work are "Unbirthday" "Painting the Roses Red" "Father William" and many others. br / br /Highly recommended, and any film that has one Dink Trout as the King of Hearts gets my vote. Probably the closest Disney ever came to getting the right "feel" to a film and in places this is actually pretty subversive. Watch it again with a very open mind .............. twee it ain't.

review by: date: 2008-05-26 rating:

The weirdest film I've ever seen?
Alice In Wonderland isn't your average Disney film. It starts off with the posh girl singing with the plants in some park and then daydreams and is sucked into a loopy world where she goes through hundreds of doors and meets loads of odd characters ranging from the loveable white rabbit, the annoying mad hatter and the funny Queen of Hearts. br / br /It's not a disney film that I'd recommend for those just getting into disney as it lacks the innocence and you really have to watch it to understand it whereas the true classics are just great forms of escapism as well as wonderful films. This one however may indeed leave you in Wonderland wondering what on earth it's all about and questioning whether it was worth the money or not. Buy The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Cinderella, Toy Story, Hercules or Mary Poppins instead if you haven't already as those won't disappoint.

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