With a title 'Alice' and it's main title image, I assumed it was an adaptation of the original, well it's more in Essence of another thing I noticed was its 'Barberella theme, which was confirmed when jacks blond girlfriend came on ha ha! It's very futuristic/postmodern with its swinging 60's style, it's entertaining and definitely different which makes it tat bit more watchable, reasonably good story,kids loved it, my eldest being 7+11

So two re-imagingings of Alice in Wonderland were released this year. One was from an iconic Hollywood director, the other a smaller production special on the ScyFy network. Guess which one was better? I didn't like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, at all. My opinion is if your going to do a remake, bring something to it, don't tread the trodden ground. His version played it safe. And actually diluted the experience, by a lot. This Alice had an interesting twist on it and although it falters in some key areas, overall it had more than enough charm for me to appreciate the retelling. I liked noticing the characters from the book, and acknowledging the little nods to the original story. The woman who played Alice was infinitely more interesting to me, and I enjoyed the dynamic between the Hatter and Alice. I was surprised at the special effects and thought they were rather good for what the movie was. I also felt the casting was elevated with Kathy Bate's role as the Red Queen. She made me laugh in more than one scene and I thought she did a splendid job. My complaints are a few. While the script can have clever moments, it also falls into generic dialogue. When a director realizes what an opportunity he has with writing scenes in wonderland, and utilizes it properly, I will praise him with countless accolades. As it is, this really has not heightened scripting to any level. The other complaint was the pacing. Towards the final act, it felt very uneven, jumping from action to exposition. It just felt very rough. At the end of the day I gave it a six and unlike the other Alice in Wonderland, I would watch this one, most assuredly, again.

When watching this on DVD I began to realize as I reached the end that the writers got lost somewhere. Being a nearly 3 and one half hour mini-series I can almost understand how this would happen. But when you get to the end and the characters, namely Alice, isn't making any sense from the beginning of the story, it just seems like a jumbled mess.First, the length. Way too long with multiple scenes that use figureheads like Kathy Bates talking about nothing that relates to the plot. Or Alice's making it to the castle, only to be rescued, only to try to return... Time wasters to make what should have been a two-hour TV movie into a two-part mini-series. Essentially dragging the viewers into a long and drawn out and often dull experience which lacks any sort of "wonder" at all. I also can appreciate the need for day-players, or name actors who will help sell a project because people will watch them. But when you have actors like Harry Dean Stanton, and Tim Curry in the show for mere minutes, just so you can put their name on the cover of the DVD, I'm sorry but that's LAME.Caterina Scorsone did a really good job with the subtleties. Her facial expressions during any dramatic scene were perfect. She was not, however, a great pick for the martial art, stand up and fight character she was made into. Her moving speeches towards the end were really really forced, as if she was thinking in her head "who would write this crap?" while saying it. In any case, hats off to her.In essence, avoid this if you can. Poor adaptation using character names for the sake of calling it an Alice in Wonderland tale.

Disney's ALICE cartoon remains the best adaptation of the two famous novels. Maybe the Robert Halmi production team was right in trying a different approach to these old stories, as this two-part ALICE is if nothing else watchable on a rainy Saturday night. It is painfully obvious ALICE is a low-budget Canadian job, and Canadian TV mainstay Matt Frewer is on hand as the White Knight to drive home the point. If you can get beyond this, what we have here is an adult Alice being sucked into Wonderland and facing much political intrigue built around a mystical ring Alice has wisely hidden. Frewer, one of the worst actors on this or any other planet, actually isn't all that bad as the dotty, Quixote-ish White Knight. At the very least, this TV flick isn't any worse than any other fantasy TV movie one sees on NBC or The Hallmark Channel. And it is a cut above anything previously seen on the SciFi Channel.