Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Lenny's description:
1999. This adaptation of Through the Looking Glass is a combination of live-action, animation, and special effects.

Its screenplay uses mostly direct book quotation.

Seller's description:
Alice is taking another journey to a fascinating world with memorable characters - tweedledum & tweedledee humpty dumpty red king & queen red & white knights & jabberwocky. Join alice on this enchanted & magical adventure sure to delight & amaze. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Kate Beckinsale Penelope Wilton Run time: 86 minutes Rating: Nr

Amazon.com:
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


Product details:

Item number (ASIN): B0006FO9C4
Actor: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Siân Phillips, Geoffrey Palmer
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
Creator: John Ignatius, Guy Collins, Paul Frift, Simon Johnson, Trevor Eve, Lewis Carroll, Nick Vivian
Director: John Henderson
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English, Spanish
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Original Release Date: January 1, 1999
Package Dimensions: 60 x 530 x 740 (hundredths-inches)
Package Quantity: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Running Time: 83, minutes
Theatrical Release Date: 1999

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Rating: - How disapointing
I love Alice in Wonderland (the book) but this movie was just off. The filming style was very unpleasant and the actress playing Alice was actually an Adult. They couldn't make wonderland any dryer.

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Rating: - A Valliant Effort
This adaptation of Alices Adventures Through the Looking Glass is the closest video production to an accurate, unabridged performance of the book tales. Not a mixed up combination of the two Classic works of literature (Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a different story), this video captured much of the essence of the tale dramatically and whimsically. The tone is appropriate to the book and therefore more intellectual as a socio-political commentary than most productions. While it is not the complete tale, it makes good use of the scenes it chooses to depict. Psychodramatic impact is in good balance with the authors intent. What it can't suggest dramatically it attempts to videographically impress upon the viewer. Clever and artsy with eccentricity on a whole new scale. Bizarre. Worth looking at for the enthusiast.

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Rating: - The Only Alice Movie that Really Gets it
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. (Original review April 2007)

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Rating: - Awesome Movie
I love this version of Alice Through the Looking Glass. I remember watching it a while back on tv, and have been looking for it for a while. Kate Beckinsale was great as Alice, and while the beginning was out of the ordinary, the rest of the movie was closer to the original premise of the book.

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Rating: - Beyond Comprehension!
Why was this made? This has no audience: too hard for children to understand and no saving grace for adults who love this classic story! NOT WORTH EVEN ONE STAR!!!!

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