Audience reviews
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Kagami-Jishi77
This is not an animation, it’s an experience
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I heard of this animated film some years ago but only now I got the chance to watch it. Possibly even before this movie I was aware of Mari Shimizu’s doll art - intriguing, haunting pieces.
This is not an “Alice in Wonderland” adaptation - more of a retelling or variation, akin to the 2010 one which was more of a commercial success. That’s what I like about Carroll’s books - I often find it better to watch movies playing with their themes rather than watching one less or more accurate adaptation after another.
“Alice in Dreamland” is partly darkly stylish, partly goofy with its animation of dolls running through the changing background. It’s like a doll that might be very realistic and remind us of a living person but is still artificial an…
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As a big fan of the original Alice in Wonderland book, I'm often attracted to its multiple adaptations. The vast majority is not all that impressive, to be honest. I expected this one to not be so good as well, especially considering the low score and the negative reviews here in MAL. Boy, was I wrong.
I'm not one to say stupid things like "if you disliked (thing), it's because you didn't understand it," regarding any kind of media, but I really can't avoid thinking that the reason why so many peope disliked Alice in Dreamland was simply because it was very different from what they expected. It is a weird-looking movie, definitely something very different from 99% of anime. It can hardly be called an anime.
But enough introduction, let's go to the review.
• Story - 6/10
The story is a…
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Alice in Dreamland is an independent anime film from 2015. Of course, it's based on the classic novel, Gulliver's Travels. You can just tell from the name. Let's dive in and see how it goes.
Story:
Alice is a young girl who loves reading. One day, she's approached by the White Rabbit, who she recognises from stories. He needs her to come with him because Wonderland is being consumed by the darkness and if she doesn't come help them, Tim Burton will make it grim, gritty and irredeemably stupid forever. Thus begins the quest to save the beloved classic from Tim Burton. And you might say "Ktulu, they're saving it from the Darkness, not Tim Burton." But if you think about it, the Darkness wants to twist the story into a grim, gritty version. Which sounds like Tim Burton to me.
The biggest…
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Alice in Dreamland is one of the latest attempts at retelling the Lewis Caroll classic story, infamous for their rather senseless attempt to make sense of the nonsense that is the mad, wonderful world and story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. To set itself apart from its predecessors, Alice in Dreamland upped up the ante in the madness scale. And by jove, they did it. What could be madder than dolls with mouths that never move, prancing about in the most cost-saving way possible, in various admittedly surreal, bizarre, and horrifically beautiful backdrops, to play a patchwork failure of a story?
The MacGuffin of the story is the status of “Queen of the Stories”. Why is it significant? How can it help conquer the "Darkness" that’s also never explained? What were they on when they made…
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