Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 6
A good introduction to Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland boasts some of the Disney canon's most surreal and twisted images.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
A good introduction to Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland boasts some of the Disney canon's most surreal and twisted images.
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Movie Info
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
Jul 28, 1951 Wide
Feb 1, 2011
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Cast
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Kathryn Beaumont
Alice -
Ed Wynn
Mad Hatter -
Richard Haydn
Caterpillar -
Sterling Holloway
Cheshire Cat -
Jerry Colonna
March Hare -
Verna Felton
Queen of Hearts -
Pat O'Malley
Carpenter, Dee, Dum,... -
Bill Thompson
Dodo, White Rabbit -
Heather Angel
Alice's sister -
Joseph Kearns
Doorknob -
Larry Grey
Bill -
Queenie Leonard
Bird in the Tree -
Dink Trout
King of Hearts -
Doris Lloyd
The Rose -
James MacDonald (II)
Dormouse -
The Mello Men
Card Player -
Don Barclay
Card -
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (6) | DVD (32)
What's really disappointing is the undistinguished animation: the film looks and plays more like the Disney shorts than the Disney features.
Top CriticWalt Disney has gone a long way towards tightening the leisurely, haphazard adventure of Alice in the wonderland of her imagination.
If you are not too particular about the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if you are high on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat slow, uneven pace, you should find this picture entertaining.
...a watchable yet thoroughly forgettable piece of work...
Despite nice elements in this Oscar-nominated Disney feature, the movie was at the time a commercial flop, but deserves to be seen.
I'm not sure there's anyone alive that believes the 1951 film lives up to Lewis Carroll's deathless 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the animated feature remains a perfectly decent slice of kid-friendly surrealism...[Blu-ray]
plays as a series of colorful, but uneven setpieces that lack an interesting or emotionally engaging heroine to tie them together
Charm and relative simplicity play like a time capsule of animated movies past, which remind us of the Disney products that captivated our grandparents.
Surreal Disney classic with wild-card characters.
An emotionally chilly exercise... At the same time it is gorgeous indeed, one of the most singular movies in the Disney canon visually.
Fifty years on the movie is clearly due a reappraisal. It's colourful, fun and as surreal as Disney is ever likely to get, this isn't as good as the books, but works as a cute introduction to them.
An enjoyable if rather pallid rendering of Carroll's classic tale.
The film is dazzling in its use of color and odd shapes and is enhanced by the distinctive voices of Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Jerry Colonna as the March Hare, and Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts.
Disney's animated musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic is enjoyable and contains a few twisted touches and slanted visuals.
Lovely animation and trippy story ruined by never-ending, excruciating songs.
Even as straightforward eye candy, the film is a near miss
Disney was and is a studio with an impenetrably inflated sense of quality control.
a whirlwind ride... Disney's trippiest film
...talented actors lend the film its greatest energy, and without them I might have fallen asleep rather than just feeling a bit listless.
It might not come close to a 5-star Disney Classic, but the breezy animation and colorful characters salvage an annoyingly fractured narrative.
Audience Reviews for Alice in Wonderland
Super Reviewer
That aside, Alice in Wonderland is probably one of Disney's most creative animated films to date just due to how crazy they could go with tis story seeing how nothing makes sense in this nonsensical animated world of Wonderland. Alice is probably one of my favorite animated film leads and the side characters are some of Disney's best, mainly the Mad Hatter and March Hare even though they aren't even in the film for fifteen minutes. My favorite character however is the Cheshire Cat, not just for how Sterling Holloway portrays him, but also how you never know what side he is on, if he's a good guy or a bad guy, and I really enjoy characters that are done like that. The music is also very good for the film, my favorite being the story of the carpenter and walrus just for how strange it is.
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Movies Like Alice in Wonderland
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- Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
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- Alice: Curiouser and curiouser!
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- Mad Hatter: A very merry Un-Birthday to you!
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- Queen of Hearts: So where were you going, my child?
- Alice: Well, I was on my way home and...
- Queen of Hearts: YOUR WAY? ALWAYS GO MY WAY!
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- Queen of Hearts: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
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- Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there [vanishes from tail to head as he says it]
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Foreign Titles
- Alice im Wunderland (DE)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951) (UK)
