MartinHafer
Unlike a typical Alice comedy, this one begins in the real world. Alice is being a class clown and her prank gets her in trouble. While sitting in the dunce chair, she begins to dream of wild adventures--all of which occur with her in the cartoon world. The adventure consists of her and her animal friends doing battle with an evil teacher and her evil textbooks. The teacher, not surprisingly, looks a lot like a cartoon version of her real one! Apart from Alice being a bit faded in a few portions (possibly due to film decomposition), this is another good Alice film from Walt Disney. The pace is brisk, cute little Virginia Davis is just fine as Alice and the film still holds up reasonably well today. It has a silly sort of charm that most of the films have and it's all in good fun. Well worth seeing.
Michael_Elliott
Alice Gets in Dutch (1924) *** (out of 4)Alice finds herself in another adventure after the teacher sits her in the corner where she dreams out a little revenge. Once again the mixture of live action and animation work wonderfully well together in this cute short.Alice's Wild West Show (1924) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Wonderful Disney short has Alice (Virginia Davis from their Alice's Wonderland) putting on a Wild West show only to have the neighborhood bully show up and try to wreck it. The mix of live action and animation here is very well done and highly entertaining especially one scene where Alice's coach is being chased by Indians. A lot of laughs and some nice suspense as well.
tavm
Alice Gets in Dutch begins in live-action with the title character in a classroom with a lot of other kids, one of whom looks like Mickey Daniels of the Our Gang shorts, singing off-key. The teacher seems stern with her hair bun and glasses. The freckle-faced child who looks like Mickey starts to blow a balloon which he passes to Alice. Teacher notices Alice with balloon and takes it from her. When she pops it, it spreads ink on her face. Alice is sent to corner with dunce cap. She daydreams having animated fun dancing with musical animals. Teacher, with horns, comes out of school with books of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic walking behind her. They shoot cannonballs that hit Alice and her friends (no real harm though, as this is just a cartoon). Alice and pals retaliate by shooting cayenne pepper from their cannon which causes the books to sneeze their cover and pages out! When teacher retaliates by shooting pepper back, the cat on Alice's side accidentally sneezes his face off! The animated teacher eventually pokes Alice with a cane as we fade back to live-action one doing the same as Alice wakes up. The end. Highly amusing short worth seeing if you're a Walt Disnty enthusiast.
boblipton
An extensive live set up goes into this early Alice short: our heroine is in a schoolroom where she gets into trouble and is made to sit in a corner with a dunce's cap on, whereupon she falls asleep and dreams of cartoonland. Spec O'Donnell is one of her classmates in the live sequence.Other people commenting on this series have made claims that Alice was a 'groundbreaking' series combining, as it did, live action and animation. In actual fact, Fleischer's 'Out of the Inkwell' series had been in production for six years at this time and had much better production values and scripts. Nonetheless, it is a pleasure to see a print of this early Disney short on the newest Disney Treasures DVD. Take my advice and skip the Leonard Maltin introduction which apologizes for there actually being anything of interest here. Thanks for getting it out to us, Leonard. Worth seeing if you are a Disneyphile or interested in the history of animation.
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