Liisa Ihmemaassa

13th Full-Length Disney film. Walt Disney had a very warm relationship with Lewis Carroll's classic. In his studio, the Alice Comedies series was created as early as the 1920s, and in the 1930s, Mickey Mouse himself looked through the looking glass. And finally, at the beginning of the 1950s, Alice came after Cinderella. Carroll's little girl is one of the most popular heroines in children's literature, and filmmakers have been drawn to her regularly since 1903. There is therefore not much to say, perhaps just the fact that the production smoothly followed on from Peter Pan and some of the songs prepared for Alice became classics from Wonderland. The splendid animation of the 1950s literally suits the material, and the poetics of nonsense feel absolutely magical. (19.08.2023)

I don't know exactly what it is, but it doesn't bother me at all that the bare essentials of the story have been left out and the film focuses mainly on all the weird and strange nonsense brought to life by the meter of playful fantasy that Alice (who is very likeable and has a really cute voice in the original version, by the way) encounters in Wonderland. This doesn't mean, however, that the film has lost the spirit of Caroll's novel, because at least the scenes with the flowers, the Frost and the Carpenter, the March and the Hatter, the cat Slipper and, of course, the Queen of Hearts have plenty of it. It's magical. (15.08.2015)