Alice - Through the Looking Glass

Alice - Through the Looking Glass


Studio: Good Times Video
Product Type: DVD
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Yawn, Gov'ner.
  • The Only Alice Movie that Really Gets It
  • A Bit Rushed at the Beginning
  • Cute!
  • an Enchanting Fantasy
 Alice Through the Looking Glass
Starring: Jonathan Bailey , Ian Holm , Paulette Williams , Charlotte Curley , and Geoffrey Palmer
Director: John Henderson
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B0006FO9C4
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Product Description

Alice traveled to Wonderland once-but now she takes another journey to a fascinating world with memorable characters...Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, Red King and Queen, Red and White Knights, and Jabberwocky. Join Alice on this enchanted and magical adventure sure to delight and amaze the whole family!

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  • Running Time 86 Min

    Format: DVD MOVIE

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    A delicious combination of live-action, animation, and special effects tells the fantastical adventures of Alice as she returns to Wonderland, in this imaginative adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic story of the same name. Kate Beckinsale plays Alice, a young girl who steps through a magical mirror and is transported from the real world into an enchanted one of talking insects, nonsensical questions, and reversals of logic. Her journey is marked by mostly incomprehensible encounters with quirky characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Red Queen and White Queen, and Humpty Dumpty. Beckinsale's Alice is a believable blend of curiosity, poise, and impertinence whose presence in nearly every scene carries the film. Other strong performances include Desmond Barritt, as Humpty, who recites a chilling rendition of "Beware the Jabberwocky," and Ian Holm (The Lord of the Rings), as White Knight, with a soliloquy as colorful as his hair. If, as Carroll states at the end of his tale, "all life is but a dream," this wacky version is one to remember. (Ages 10 and older) --Lynn Gibson

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Yawn, Gov'ner........2007-06-03

    "Easy stomach." [Lewis Carroll] Alice is 7-1/2 now. She has "B" cups and runs around in high heels. She encounters a numbing variety of nuisances each of whom vyes for the title of Most Least Relevant. Her adventure is enhanced by the technical marvel of the shoulder mounted camera. Mm-mm. This is an English picture so everybody talks everybody to death and there is nothing to wake you up when it is over. Read the book first because you probably won't understand most of them. Or want to. Don't attribute this croaker to Carroll. Pin it on Tennyson of some lesser worthy. "All in the sleepy afternoon rode the six hundred ..." If you insist on insulting yourself anyway, make sure you can get your money back. In American dollars.

    5 out of 5 stars The Only Alice Movie that Really Gets It.......2007-04-20

    No, this is not 100% true to the book. Obviously not, since it starts in the present and stars an adult Alice. But it is one of the few Alices that keeps to the events of the one book, instead of blending both, and it is the only one I have seen to successfully convey the absurdism, the surrealism, the silliness, and the disturbing qualities--as well as the occasional touching moments. The movie is worth seeing if only for Ian Holm's beautifully melancholy rendition of "A-Sitting on a Gate" (or whatever the song is called!). Yes, the filmmakers clearly spent all their money on their cast, and not much on sets and special effects, but they supply in imagination what they lack in budget.

    4 out of 5 stars A Bit Rushed at the Beginning.......2007-02-04

    This is quite an interesting version of Through the Looking Glass because its screenplay uses little else than direct book quotation. Of course, I can only imagine how challenging pulling off such a feat can be, since Carroll had SO much stuff to say. How to cram it all in? Well, you can try going very, very fast. And that's exactly what this movie does for the first 40 minutes or so. I mean it blazes from one chapter to the next, and as a result the characters seem a bit under-established and it's tough for the viewer to know what the heck is going on. However, the last half of the movie slows down quite a bit to an appropriate pace, and is quite enjoyable, at least to anyone who's read the book.

    Another thing to consider in attempting to translate a Carroll book to film is carrying out the dialogue successfully without making the film seem too talky. Speeding through lines DOES make the time spent on talking shorter, but I don't know if that's such a good idea. I mean, speeding through the Walrus and the Carpenter poem completely ruined it for me. It sounded mumbled and I couldn't even hear most of it since some rather loud background music was playing during the entire scene.

    The excessive amount of incredibly witty dialogue doesn't work near as well on the screen as it does in print, but I wouldn't say this film is bad, or even average. Heck, I was very pleased to see that it contained the Wasp in a Wig chapter, and the train scene is incredibly spooky, moreso than it is in the book. There's no denying that this movie does a very good job with the spooky stuff, and the white queen running in super-fast motion darn sure creeped me out. You know, odd as it is, I never felt creeped out reading a Carroll book. I always found his works to be darn funny and thought-provoking (the good kind of provoking) at the same time. What fond memories of the book this Through the Looking Glass DVD brought back to me!

    4 out of 5 stars Cute!.......2007-01-18

    I liked it, it was an interesting version. I never thought that I'd see Kate Beckingsale playing Alice. It was funny how her hair kept changing with like every scene.

    5 out of 5 stars an Enchanting Fantasy.......2006-12-18

    I think the Brits really made an enchanting fantasy tale here (I prefer this one to Hollywood's efforts). All the British voices are especially elegant and persuasive (never overdone)- and witty. Older actors are good here, as often in British TV shows (Americans seem to insist on the younger). I liked the music on the soundtrack (especially with the end credits), and found Kate Beckinsale absolutely lovely, and nice as Alice.
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      Release Date: 2006-06-20
      Alice - Through the Looking Glass
      Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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      ASIN: B00022LILQ
      Release Date: 2004-07-27

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Saturday Morning Fare.......2004-11-27

      A somewhat rushed feeling, animated romp through various settings called 'squares' so Alice can reach the Red Queen's castle, square 8, and become a queen herself. Other than that not much any of the film has a lot of meaning or interest.

      Despite the popular actors of the time used as voices there is little tying it into Carrol's poems other than the characters' names.
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      ASIN: B00022LITI
      Release Date: 2004-07-27

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Two versions of Alice, not a set.......2004-11-27

      This is two DVDs but they are separate versions by different studios, not a follow on to one another.

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      Non-Disney version;
      Similar, but more kid focused than the Disney version. And a bit closer to the actual book.

      The Caucus race song drags on far too long however but my niece is usually glued to the screen during the Mad Hatter's coloring song.

      This was done in an Asian lab and has the distinctive animation similar to Heathcliff and other afternoon cartoons.


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      Saturday Morning Fare;
      A somewhat rushed feeling, animated romp through various settings called 'squares' so Alice can reach the Red Queen's castle, square 8, and become a queen herself. Other than that not much any of the film has a lot of meaning or interest.

      Despite the popular actors of the time used as voices there is little tying it into Carrol's poems other than the characters' names.
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        ASIN: B0007R6Y06
        Alice Through the Looking Glass
        Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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        ASIN: B00005QW5H
        Release Date: 2001-11-06

        Customer Reviews:

        3 out of 5 stars questing for the other reviews.......2004-12-25

        is this the same movie that harry harris put out on vhs? if so i will buy this dvd. please let me knoe.
        amanda

        1 out of 5 stars Beware..This not what you probably think it is!.......2001-12-19

        If you're thinking this is a companion to the classic Disney film Alice in Wonderland, be advised it is not. It is an extremely juvenile bit of animation which probably only a small child will find appealing. It is too bad that a picture of the box is not presented here for customers to judge if it is, indeed, the version that they are looking for.

        4 out of 5 stars Go Alice!.......2001-12-07

        This is a well-done DVD, great for all "Alice" fans! My seven year old really enjoyed the feature - - I heard her laugh often at the show, which featured colorful and wacky characters. She stayed with the program for the full 70-plus minutes, a very good indicator of a good program.
        I also liked the features built into the DVD, which included moving menus, a special song gallery and three languages, english, spanish and french. Since my daughter is taking Spanish in school, this was particularly useful.
        Overall, this version provides great entertainment and great value.

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