I finally caved and bought this film before it gets sucked back into the vault! I suppose it's exactly what they want you to do: freak out and buy it before it goes away. Well, Disney, you win. Alice in Wonderland has now joined the ranks of the Cinema Nerds film collection. Might need to buy another shelf.
In case you live in a cave, Alice in Wonderland is the story of a young girl who follows a rabbit into a rabbit hole and she falls down down down into a strange land with plenty of strange characters. She grows, she shrinks, she talks to flowers and caterpillars and mad hatters and everything else in between. I'm personally not a big fan of Alice as a character...she's so uppity, haha, and the same actress voices Wendy in Peter Pan and I hate Wendy too. But the film is so lively and colorful, and it has some really great silly moments. Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter "seasoning" the watch never fails to crack me up ("MUSTARD??") and the Caterpillar-turned-butterfly screaming in Alice's face ("THE MUSHROOM OF COURSE!!!") is always good for a laugh. Disney favorite Sterling Holloway is great as the Cheshire Cat, and the animation of the flowers is lovely, not to mention the gorgeous backgrounds that celebrated artist Mary Blair created the concept art for. This film's worth a revisit if you haven't seen it in a while. It will at least have to hold me over until the next batch of Disney classics is released!
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