Starring……………Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg and Robbie Coltrane
Directed by ……………….Nick Willing
Synopsis
Alice falls Down rabbit Hole, and finds herself in wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Warning spoilers ahead
My Review
Another Alice in wonderland review this time it 1998 or 1999 version with a few stars that I know in it so will it be good have to wait and see the one playing Alice is Tina Majorino who don’t know much about don’t think I see many of her films so will be something to see how she does playing Alice in this one.
So after see first 15 mins of this Alice in wonderland version what do I think well not that I have not have a huge problem Alice dress is yellow and not blue so find that a little interesting guess they went with another version of her dress also when Alice lands in worderland there many many doors around where the heck they lead to is question all of them are locked though as first 15 mins is something and will say it a good start so hopefully rest of the film will stay on that root too also again many names are in this too looking forward to see how there characters play out too this is long movie so look for this review to go long as well.
Alice got wet so then they are trying to find a way to get her dry bye doing silly stuff by having a race then get reward then leave what point of that not sure so then she runs into rabbit then finds his house and if you read the story that right she drink potion and got huge I see many of versions of this story so I know this one by heart then rabbit see and we’ll fall though the window funny he fall and fall unit it so then he hires 2 guys to go see who in house so only way they get her out is too burn down the house then cake appears out of nowhere she eats that and well bring her back size well small.
Pretty much after that Alice is back in woods who will she meet next the caterpillar who played by Ben Kingsley to me Caterpillar character is like a character getting stoned or maybe he magic that didn’t last long but he gives her hints on how to get tall and small then she finds a way to get back normal size then a castle show is that queen of hearts if so that something so she goes she meets a guy who odd but then go in it not queen yet but she meets a lady with a very creepy baby and Cheshire Cat played by Whoopi Goldberg she look very odd with her face on cat this should be something to see hope she funny though sure now a lot of Cheshire Cat but the question Is will cat be on Alice side in story Cheshire shows up at time like I said early never know who show up and which character they play after she leaves the Cheshire Cat shows up again and talk to Alice again this interesting role for Whoopi Goldberg here in my view after talking to her she leaves and it tea party time and Martin short is mad hatter too he look funny I am a fan of his movies so he is good at playing characters like and must say they did a great job making him look like mad hatter too the tea party does go on a little longer about probably due to movie being 2 hours and 13 mins long so tea party goes on for 10 mins then Alice leaves hats off to Martin short for playing mad hatter.
Next she goes though door abd meets someone painting the flowers red this happens 1 hour unit film that where red queen shows and her voice is annoying she is played Miranda Richardson they could of least got someone better to play her because when she yells her voice is annoyed I had to a few aspirin after that one lol then after she see Cheshire Cat not full body just ahead cat does stuck around a little some.
So only a hour left let see if it gets better or not after that Alice goes though a maze so who will she meet next and who show up next she then meets a turtle and it Gene Wilder that right candyman is now a Turtle funny though he is another great actor who could play any roles and shine but too me he look silly though again funny.
Lots of actors In this one have interesting roles and characters in this I mean even gene wilder show up and dance that goes on for about 5 mins then Alice leaves after talking to them.
After Alice finds another book that could lead her home or could lead to something dark then 2 guys knights show up 1 white knight and it doc brown from future must be lost in time travel just joking it just Christopher Lloyd who is playing a white knight goofing one too but funny as seem like in last hour they are making it more comedy way with goofing moments and jokes but don’t mind I he was good as white knight.
After he leaves Alice meets flowers who only talk that didn’t last long as they upset her a little so got back on road and meets t brothers one played bye Robbie Coltrane and George Wendt then they start telling story of walrus and oysters give flashbacks to 1951 version some though Robbie and George did good as goofing brothers then they put on weird suits and look like they are ready to go at it both run out of gas then a dark cloud comes over and queen guards tell her to go back with for a trial which means the movie is close to end see this in many versions of story so wonder how this will go.
Only 13 mins mad hatter shows up again and sings and queen gets mad guess she don’t like singing I will say the costumes do look good in this one though for 1999 or 1998 version though mad hatter leaves so I bet Alice will be call up next yep and she eats a cake and gets tall again then king tells her to leave wonderland due to her being tall after talking a huge apple comes down as card starts to fall down as dark this after rabbit says you don’t need us and she some how lands home and so so how does the movie with singing as characters from wonderland was back in there human form as they show highlights of movie fast and ends in happy way.
Well after getting though 2hours and 13 mins of that have to say it was good movie characters did good bye actors though this was not best one some scenes was a little long though only one character that was little bit annoying was red queen otherwise again it was good version of story.
Well that it I have writing a lot in my view it was good to get another review up unit next time have a good rest of your day.
Alice in worderland (1999) or (1998) rating 7/10
