emzavon With a title 'Alice' and it's main title image, I assumed it was an adaptation of the original, well it's more in Essence of another thing I noticed was its 'Barberella theme, which was confirmed when jacks blond girlfriend came on ha ha! It's very futuristic/postmodern with its swinging 60's style, it's entertaining and definitely different which makes it tat bit more watchable, reasonably good story,kids loved it, my eldest being 7+11

gavin6942 Alice follows a man through a mirror into Wonderland, which is not the joyful place from the story. It is now ruled by an even more merciless Red Queen, and the inhabitants have a strange sort of addiction to "tea" that is drained from humans outside of Wonderland. Can Alice get back home?Writer-director Nick Willing has previously worked on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" -- he made a version starring Tina Majorino back in 1999, which was one of the closest adaptations ever. A bit dry, but Willing's love of the characters was obvious. Here he returns with a modified story, much less dry, and a whole new spin... this is the masterpiece.All the cast is pretty great, even Caterina Scorsone (Alice) who flails her arms wildly when she runs. Andrew Lee Potts (Hatter) does a great male lead, being both handsome and understandable. Cult icon Matt Frewer is a wonderful White Knight, though they might have used a better beard. Having Colm Meaney (King of Hearts) show up was good, though his role was not made all too clear.The situations were brilliant. The "tea party" being more like a stock market was a good modification, though I don't know why the Dormouse was a woman with a mustache. The room with Doctors Dee and Dumb was genius, and I really liked Mad March (though the Brooklyn accent was a bad choice).Three casting choices failed for me. Philip Winchester (Jack Chase) did not have the charisma he should have to play the romantic interest. He just did not make a strong hero. Tim Curry (Dodo) was doubly wronged: his Dodo made little sense (why the Dodo?) and a character actor of his caliber deserved a bigger role. Lastly, Kathy Bates (Queen of Hearts) was wasted. Anyone could have played the Queen the way she was written (very flat)... using Bates was overkill. This is probably the best thing SyFy did since picking up the rights for "Mystery Science Theater". What is normally a worthless network was spared by this film.

johnstonjames 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.

BHDude The cheap settings (yes, we get it it's in Canada). Lousy acting by the leads and extras (except for Hatter, he brought some fun to the story). The script is awful; the re-imagining of the story is lackluster and lame. None of the subplots made any sense nor did the main plot.This is 1 point above Tinman.They were lazy in production (anyone catch the JVC label on the TV monitors in the lab?). You can tell they borrowed sets or filmed in abandoned office buildings (great job covering up the exit signs with card symbols).Go back to Battlestar Galactica to see how writing, acting, music, editing, and production are done. Give us something (not produced by the Halmi boys) that shows that Science Fiction/Fantasy can be done correctly.