If you don't link it to the original Alice in Wonderland Disney movie, then it is worth watching.I think it would have been better if they named the movie/ mini series something other than Alice so people won't compare it to Alice in Wonderland. They took some ideas from the Disney movie, like going to a "wonderland" and they modified some characters. However, this mini series is not the real version of the cartoon, it has a totally different story.Never the less, I enjoyed watching it, and somehow it made me feel like a kid watching a movie in the 90s. The costumes, scenes, and acting felt like a 90s movie for kids/teenagers.It is a cute/weird movie, watch it if you have some time to kill :)

Nick Willing did do a version of Alice In Wonderland that was pretty decent. Then he decided to make a newer version. One that takes place a lot longer in the future. Plus the fact that Wonderland is very different. Imagine Wonderland not being so beautiful but more of an updated poor trashy industrial feel. All the characters are human; including the white rabbit and the caterpillar. Yes he does have a nice all star cast, but he also made the Cheshire Cat show up for a split second and added a serial killer with a porcelain rabbit head. Also did I mention that Alice knows karate. Anyways, it was an interesting take on the story, but the movie was just too boring at parts. Kathy Bates did make a great Red Queen and I really enjoyed Andrew Lee Potts as the Hatter. But everyone else was just up to par. Caterina Scorsone plays Alice and she was OK, but to me, she didn't really seem girly enough. The whole story of this film really seemed pretty interesting and I wanted it to work, but like I said, it was just too boring at parts.

i thought this was a blast. i didn't really get it. but i thought it was really cool and a lot of fun. it wasn't really the children's classic at all but something updated and modified for adults.that's just fine with me since i own on DVD so many versions of 'Alice' and many of them are very faithful that i don't think i could stomach another attempt at "faithful". and i liked the fact that this was for adults, the Tim Burton movie was original and did it's own thing, but it was still basically aimed at a 'kid' audience.the story was pretty weird and it's message, something about instant gratification, seemed to get lost in all the kooky goings on. the white rabbit/March hare was really scary and so were Tweedle Dumm and Tweedle Dee. Kathy Bates was also scary as the Queen and she was basically playing the same character she did in 'About Schmidt'. now that's scary.i'm sure this whole thing is going to leave me permanently confused for the rest of my days, and i'm sure the movie had a very good moral. that is if you happen to be an oyster. beware the scary rabbit.

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.