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Lewis Carroll | 96 pages | 01 Jul 1993 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486275437 | English | New York, United States Alice in Wonderland () - IMDb

It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice's was published in It was inspired when, three years earlier on 4 July, [6] and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the Isis river in a boat with three young girls. This day was known as the " golden afternoon ," [7] prefaced in the novel as a poem. The poem might be a confusion or even another Alice-tale, for it turns out that particular day was cool, cloudy and rainy. The journey began at Folly BridgeOxford and ended five miles away in the Oxfordshire village Alice in Wonderland Godstow. During Alice in Wonderland trip Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and asked Dodgson to write it down for Alice in Wonderland. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version is lost Alice in Wonderland history. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he Alice in Wonderland the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history in connection with the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children — particularly those of George MacDonald. Though Dodgson did add his own illustrations, he subsequently approached to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children. Before Alice received her copy, Dodgson was already preparing it for publication and expanding the 15,word original to 27, words, [14] most notably adding the episodes about the and the . Chapter One — Down the Rabbit Hole : Alicea seven-year-old girl, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She notices a talking, clothed with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole where she suddenly falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes. She finds a little key to a door too small for her to fit through, but through it, she sees an attractive garden. She then discovers a bottle on a table labelled "DRINK ME," the contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key which she had left on the table. Chapter Two — The Pool of Tears : The chapter opens with Alice growing to such a tremendous size that her Alice in Wonderland hits the ceiling. Unhappy, Alice begins to cry and her tears literally flood the hallway. Shrinking down again due to a fan she had picked up, Alice swims through her own tears and meets a mousewho is Alice in Wonderland as well. Alice, thinking he may be a French mouse, tries to make small talk with him in elementary French. Chapter Three — The Caucus Race and a Long Tale : The sea Alice in Wonderland tears becomes crowded with other animals and birds that have been swept away by the rising waters. Alice and the other animals convene on the bank and the question among them is how to get dry again. Mouse gives them a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror. A dodo decides that the best thing to dry them off would be a Caucus-Race, which consists of everyone running in a circle with no clear winner. Alice eventually frightens all the animals away, unwittingly, by talking about her moderately ferocious cat. Mistaking her for his maidservantMary Ann, Rabbit orders Alice to go into the house and retrieve them. Inside the house she finds another little bottle and drinks from it, immediately beginning to grow again. The horrified Alice in Wonderland orders his gardener, Bill the Lizardto climb on the roof and go down the chimney. Outside, Alice hears the voices of animals that have gathered to gawk at her giant arm. The crowd hurls pebbles at her, which turn into little cakes. Alice eats them, and they reduce her again in size. Chapter Five — Advice from a Caterpillar : Alice comes upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a blue caterpillar smoking a hookah. Caterpillar questions Alice, who begins to admit to her current identity crisis, compounded by her inability to remember a poem. Before crawling away, Alice in Wonderland caterpillar tells Alice that one Alice in Wonderland of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side will make her shorter. She breaks off two pieces from the mushroom. One side makes her shrink smaller Alice in Wonderland ever, while another causes her neck to grow high into Alice in Wonderland trees, where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent. With some effort, Alice brings herself back to her normal height. She stumbles upon a small estate and uses the mushroom to reach a more appropriate height. Chapter Six — Pig and Pepper : A fish- footman has an invitation for the Duchess of the house, which he delivers to a frog- footman. Alice observes this transaction and, after a perplexing conversation with the frog, lets herself into the house. The Duchess's cook is throwing dishes and making a soup that has too much pepper, which causes Alice, the Duchess, and Alice in Wonderland baby but not the cook or grinning Cheshire Cat to sneeze violently. Alice is given the baby by the Duchess and, to Alice's surprise, the baby turns into a pig. The Cheshire Cat appears in a tree, directing her to the 's house. He disappears but Alice in Wonderland grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat. Chapter Seven — A Mad Tea-Party : Alice becomes a guest at a "mad" tea party along with the March Harethe Hatterand a very tired Dormouse Alice in Wonderland, who falls asleep frequently only to be violently awakened moments later by the March Hare Alice in Wonderland the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous " Alice in Wonderland is a raven like a writing desk? Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to. Chapter Eight Alice in Wonderland The Queen's Croquet Ground : Alice leaves Alice in Wonderland tea party and enters the garden where she comes upon three living playing cards painting the Alice in Wonderland roses on a rose tree red because The Queen of Hearts hates white roses. A procession of more cards, kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden. Alice then meets the King and Queen. The Queen, a figure difficult to please, introduces her signature phrase "Off with his head! Alice is invited or some might say ordered to play a game of croquet with the Queen and the rest of her subjects but the game quickly descends into chaos. Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible Alice in Wonderland the head is all that can be seen Alice in Wonderland him. Because the cat belongs to the Duchess, the Queen is prompted to release the Duchess from prison to resolve the matter. She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her. The Alice in Wonderland of Hearts dismisses her on the threat of execution and she introduces Alice to the Gryphonwho takes her to the . The Mock Turtle is very sad, even though he has no sorrow. He tries to tell his story about Alice in Wonderland he used to be a real turtle in school, which the Gryphon interrupts so they can play a game. Chapter Eleven — Who Stole the Tarts? The jury is composed of various animals, including Bill the Lizardthe White Rabbit Alice in Wonderland the court's trumpeter, and the judge is the King of Hearts. During the proceedings, Alice finds that she is steadily growing larger. scolds Alice and tells her she has no right to grow at Alice in Wonderland a rapid pace and take up all the air. Alice scoffs and calls the dormouse's accusation ridiculous because everyone grows and she cannot help it. Meanwhile, witnesses at the trial include the Hatter, who displeases and frustrates the King through his indirect answers to the questioning, and the Duchess's cook. Chapter Twelve — Alice's Evidence : Alice is then called up as a witness. She accidentally knocks over the jury box with the animals inside them and the King orders the animals be placed back into their seats before the trial continues. The King and Queen order Alice to be gone, citing Rule 42 "All persons more than a mile high to leave the court" Alice in Wonderland, but Alice disputes their judgement and refuses to leave. She argues with Alice in Wonderland King and Queen of Hearts over the ridiculous proceedings, eventually refusing to hold her tongue, only to say, "It's not that I was the one who stole the tarts in the first place", in the process. Finally, the Queen confirms that Alice was the culprit responsible of stealing the Alice in Wonderland after all which automatically pardons the Knave of Hearts of his chargesand shouts, "Off with her head! Alice's sister wakes her up from a dream, brushing what turns out to be some leaves and not a shower of playing cards from Alice's face. Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself. Alice Liddell herself is Alice in Wonderland, while Carroll is caricatured as the Dodo because Dodgson stuttered when he spoke, he sometimes pronounced his last name as Dodo-Dodgson. Gardner has suggested that the Hatter is a reference to Theophilus Cartera furniture dealer known in Oxfordand that Tenniel apparently drew the Hatter to resemble Carter, on a suggestion of Carroll's. These are the Liddell sisters: Elsie is L. The Mock Turtle speaks of a drawling-master, "an old conger eel," who came once a week to teach "Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils. The children did, in fact, learn well; Alice Liddell, for one, produced a number of skilful watercolours. The Mock Turtle also sings "Turtle Soup. Martin Gardneralong with other scholars, have shown the book to be filled with many parodies of Victorian popular culture, suggesting it belongs in spirit with W. Gilbert and Alfred Cellier 's Topsyturveydom. Most of the book's adventures may have been based on or influenced by people, situations, and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church. For example, the "Rabbit Hole" symbolised the actual stairs in the back of the Christ Church's main hall. A carving of a griffon and rabbit, as seen in Ripon Cathedralwhere Carroll's father was a canon, may have provided inspiration for the tale. In the eighth chapter, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, because they had accidentally planted a white-rose tree that The Queen of Hearts hates. Red roses symbolised the English House of Lancasterwhile white Alice in Wonderland symbolised their rival House of Yorkthus the wars between them were the Wars of the Roses. While the book has remained in print and continually inspires new adaptations, the cultural material from which it draws has become largely specialized knowledge. Dr Leon Coward asserts the book 'suffers' from "readings which reflect today's fascination with postmodernism and psychology, rather than delving into an historically informed interpretation," and speculates that this has been partly driven by audiences encountering the narrative through a 'second-hand' source, explaining "our impressions of the original text are based Alice in Wonderland a multiplicity of reinterpretations. We don't necessarily realise we're missing anything in understanding the original product, because Alice in Wonderland usually never dealing with the original product. It has been suggested by several people, including Martin Gardner and Selwyn Goodacre, [20] that Dodgson had an interest in the French language, choosing to make references and puns about it in the story. It is most likely that these are references to French Alice in Wonderland common feature Alice in Wonderland a Victorian middle-class girl's upbringing. For example, in the second chapter Alice posits that the mouse may be French. Pat's "Digging for apples" could be a cross-language punas pomme de terre literally; "apple of the earth" means potato and pomme means apple. In the second chapter, Alice initially addresses the mouse as "O Mouse", based on her memory of the noun declensions "in her brother's Latin Grammar'A mouse — of a mouse — to a mouse — a mouse — O mouse! The sixth case, mure ablative is absent from Alice's recitation. As Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church, it has been suggested that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and Through the Looking-Glass. Carina Garland notes how the world is "expressed via representations of food and appetite", naming Alice's frequent desire for consumption of both food and wordsher 'Curious Appetites'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

Alice in Wonderland Quotes are based on the fantasy story of a young girl Alice. Alice in wonderland is an American fantasy adventure movie released in It is directed by and written by Linda Woolverton. She got confused about how to proceed with this so she chases a rabbit wearing a blue waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch. Accidently she falls in the rabbit hole, where she enters a small door by drinking water called Pishsalver and emerges in the magical place called wonderland. This Alice in Wonderland foretold by the Caterpiller and his Oraculum. The Alice in wonderland Quotes is based on fantasy, magic, and adventurers of Alice. Tweedles are traped by Red queens large . The Knave informs the red queen Alice in Wonderland Alice threatens them. The Red queen ordered the Knights and Bloodhound to search for Alice. Alice is greeted by a grinning vanishing Cheshire Cat when she enters the Tulgey Woods. Cheshire Cat shows her the way to Mad hatter. When she met hatter, hatter explains to her why he joined the resistance. Later the Mad Hatter helped her to restore the white queen by slaying red queens . On Frabjous day. The Red Queen sent his army against Alice. Alice fights jabberwocky and finally defeats him. Catapult stone kills the Jubjub bird. The Frabjous day has ended and the white queen is restored. The Knave attempts to kill the red queen but hatter Alice in Wonderland her. Some of the Best Alice in Wonderland Quotes are listed below:. I think I could, if only I knew how to begin. That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer Alice in Wonderland. This was the thought of Alice about the Alice in Wonderland world when she was in England. But when she came to wonderland it was Alice in Wonderland opposite to her thoughts. If Alice in Wonderland want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! All the things in wonderland were strange for Alice. And the moral of that is — the more there is of mine, the less there is of yours. Cheshire cat is the fictional character in wonderland and a cat of the duchess. Alice meets her first time in wonderland when she leaves the Duchess house. Alice finds her in a tree. It grins from time to time and possesses the ability to Alice in Wonderland and reappear whenever it wants. Cheshire cat was the only in wonderland Alice in Wonderland teaches the rules of wonderland to Alice and he always listens to her. He is a pink cat with purple strips on it, having a permanent smile on his face. He is very mysterious having a mad personality like other members of wonderland but he is the only one who proudly admits it. Your enemies are fortunate your condition is not permanent. Red eyes suit so few. Cheshire cat thinks that all the characters in wonderland are mad but he is the only one who proudly accepts it. I insist on your freedom. My reality is just different than yours. Cheshire cat Alice in Wonderland mad having a crazy smile all the time on his face. He does many blunders due to his behaviors. He thinks he is not crazy but different Alice in Wonderland others. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut. Terrible people. They all started hunting me! Alice enters in wonderland by following him. She first saw him at the riverbank with his older sister. She followed him and ended up seeing Alice in Wonderland jumping in a hole, Alice Alice in Wonderland after him into the hole. This hole ended up in the wonderland. The white rabbit is confident enough and always in a hurry. In wonderland, while walking she encounters the white rabbit house. White rabbits as in hurry mistaken her for his housemaid Mary Ann. He ordered her to his gloves and a fan. During the whole wonderland journey of Alice in Wonderland, the white rabbit is a kind of guide for Alice. Go go! Go get my gloves! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! Although the white rabbit is always in a hurry in every situation he never reaches on time on any Alice in Wonderland no matter how fast he runs. He thinks he is always late on Alice in Wonderland important date. The white rabbit is always in a hurry and nervous. When Alice in Wonderland sees her he was in a hurry because he is Alice in Wonderland herald of the queen and he is almost late to announce her arrival. For a very important date! What are you doing out here? No no! Tarrant hightop also is known as Mad Hatter is one of the most important fictional characters of Alice in wonderland. In Cheshire cat view, the Hatter and March Hare both are mad. He is the maker of hats, poisoned by mercury. The orange color of his hair is due to mercury. He joined the resistance to end the bloody rule Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen. The hatter met Alice in her childhood when she was only nine years. They become friends and they both enjoy tea together. Alice forgets all these memories because she was away from Underland for many years. Now they met again when she is nineteen years of age. The mad hatter decided to help Alice to restore the White Queen and to save wonderland from the bloody rules of the Red Queen. Where did they draw the treacle from? In wonderland, everything is very strange for Alice. The behavior of characters is not understandable by Alice. Mad hatter relaxes her by saying that we all are mad here. I would very much Alice in Wonderland to hat it. I used to hat Alice in Wonderland White Queen, you know. Her head was so small. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech. All the best people are. The Blue Caterpillar is one of the fictional characters appearing in the Alice in wonderland. Alice encounters the first time to caterpillar after she has been shrunk to a small size. After the efforts of Alice, he starts talking but usually in short sentences. He is very tiny about three inches tall. He was the one who tells Alice to grow and Alice in Wonderland by eating mushrooms. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Caterpillar: By the way, I have a few more helpful hints. One side will make you grow taller…. Alice: one side of what? Caterpillar: …and the other side will make you grow shorter. Alice: The other side of what? When Alice was tiny she encounters the caterpillar. Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Wikipedia

Loosely inspired by Lewis Carroll 's fantasy novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassand Walt Alice in Wonderland 's animated film of the same namethe film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsleighwho is told that she can restore the Alice in Wonderland Queen to her throne, with the help of the Mad Hatter. She is the only one who can slay the Jabberwockya dragon-like creature that is controlled by the Red Queen and terrorizes Underland's inhabitants. In Alice in Wonderland situation, Alice fights against the Red Queen to protect the world. It is also the second-highest-grossing film of Alice in Wonderland received mixed reviews upon release; although praised for its visual style, costumes, musical score, and special effects, the film was criticized for its lack of narrative coherence and sombre tone. While not the first such film in general, Alice in Wonderland started a trend of live- action fairy tale and fantasy films being green-lit, particularly from Walt Disney Studios. Introubled by a strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her father, year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascot's estate. There, she is confronted with an unwanted marriage proposal by Lord Ascot's son, Hamish, and the stifling expectations of the society in which she lives. Unsure of how to proceed, she pursues a rabbit wearing a blue waistcoat and carrying a pocketwatch and falls into a large rabbit-hole under a tree. She enters a small door by drinking from a bottle labeled 'Drink Me' called Pishsalver and emerges to a forest in a magical place called Wonderland where she is greeted by a White Rabbita Dormousea DodoTalking Flowersand identical twins named Tweedledee and Tweedledum who all apparently know her. Alice suggests that it is all a dream while the others argue over whether Alice is "the right Alice" who must slay the Red Queen 's Jabberwocky on Frabjous Day and restore the White Queen who Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen's sister to power, as foretold by Absolem the Blue Caterpillar and his Oraculum a scroll-like calendar which tells Wonderland's history and future. The group is then ambushed by a ravenous beast called a and an army of playing-cards called Red Knights led by the Knave of Hearts the Red Queen's tall general and lover. Alice and the Tweedles Alice in Wonderland into the woods. The Knave steals the Caterpillar's Oraculum. The Dormouse leaves the others behind with one of the Bandersnatch's eyes in her possession. The Tweedles are then captured by the Red Queen's large Jubjub bird. The Knave informs the Red Queen that Alice threatens her reign, which makes her order him, the Alice in Wonderland Knights and a Bloodhound who has a wife and children imprisoned to Alice in Wonderland Alice immediately. The Hatter explains to Alice that he joined the resistance because the Red Queen destroyed his entire village and killed his family when she first ruled Wonderland. He later helps Alice to avoid capture by allowing himself to be seized instead. Later, Alice is found by the Bloodhound, but Alice insists upon helping the Hatter. At Salazen Grum castle, the Red Queen notices Alice when she ate Upelkuchen a cake labeled 'Eat Me' which makes the consumer grow during a game of Croquet with flamingos and hedgehogs, but is unaware of her true identity because Alice pretended to be called "Um" and therefore welcomes her as a guest. Alice learns that the vorpal swordthe only weapon Alice in Wonderland of killing the Jabberwocky, is locked inside the den of the Bandersnatch. The Knave attempts to seduce Alice, but she rebuffs him, causing the jealous Red Queen demanding for Alice to be beheaded. Alice obtains the sword and befriends the Bandersnatch by returning its eye. She then escapes on the back of the grateful Bandersnatch and delivers the sword to the White Queen. The White Queen gives Alice a potion that returns her normal size and rewards her with a suit of armor when she battles the Jabberwocky. The Cheshire Cat saves the Mad Hatter from the executioner by disguising himself as him in exchange for borrowing his beloved hat. The Hatter calls for rebellion against the Red Queen, which all her subjects agree to by starting to shout out "Down with Bloody Big Head. The Caterpillar finally gets Alice to remember that she has been to Wonderland when she was a little girl, and advises her to fight the Jabberwocky just before Alice in Wonderland his transformation into a pupa. On Frabjous Day, the Queens gather their armies on a chessboard-like battlefield and send Alice and the Jabberwocky to decide the battle in single combat. Encouraged by the advice Alice in Wonderland her late father, Alice fights the Jabberwocky among a demolished spiraling tower surrounding the battlefield. During this fight, a catapult stone kills the Jubjub bird; Alice finally defeats the Jabberwocky Alice in Wonderland jumping from the top of the tower onto its neck and beheads it. Frabjous Day has finally ended and the Red Alice in Wonderland turn against their ruler. As punishment for their crimes, the White Queen banishes her sister and the Knave into exile together. The Knave attempts to kill the Red Queen because he grew sick of her Alice in Wonderland, yet the Mad Hatter protects the Red Queen from his attack. After the Hatter performs a celebration dance called Futterwacken, the White Queen gives Alice a vial of the Jabberwocky's purple blood whose power will bring her whatever she wishes. She decides to rejoin the everyday world after saying farewell to her friends. Back in England, Alice refuses Hamish's proposal and impresses Lord Ascot with her idea of establishing oceanic trade routes to Hong Konginspiring him to take her as his apprentice. As Alice prepares to set Alice in Wonderland on Alice in Wonderland trading ship, a light-blue butterfly with dark vein markings lands on her shoulder, and Alice recognizes him as the former Caterpillar. Marton Csokas makes a cameo appearance as Alice's deceased father in the film's opening scene and Alice's mother is played by Lindsay Duncan. Eleanor Tomlinson and Eleanor Gecks play the Cathaway sisters, who bear a Alice in Wonderland resemblance to Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Frank Welker provided additional voices and vocal effects; including roars of the Jabberwocky and Bandersnatchsquawks for the Jubjub birdand Bayard's barking. Burton developed the story because he never felt an emotional tie to the original book. He explained "the goal is to try to make it an engaging movie where you get some of Alice in Wonderland psychology and kind of bring a freshness but also keep the classic nature of Alice. Burton also stated that he does not see his Alice in Wonderland as either a sequel to any existing Alice film nor as a "re-imagining". This film was originally set to be released in but was pushed back to March 5, Two hundred and fifty local Alice in Wonderland were chosen in early August. Locations included Antony House in Torpoint, Charlestown, Alice in Wonderland and the Barbican[46] [47] however, no footage from the Barbican was used. Motion capture filming began in early October at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, though the footage was later discarded. Sony Pictures Imageworks designed the visual effects sequences. Longtime Burton collaborator 's score was released March 2, Almost Alice is a collection of various artists' music inspired by the film. On February 12,major UK cinema chains, OdeonVueand Cineworldhad planned to boycott the film because of a reduction of Alice in Wonderland interval between cinema and DVD release from the usual 17 weeks to 12 possibly to avoid Alice in Wonderland release of the DVD clashing with the FIFA World Cupwhich was Disney's pretext for cutting short Alice ' s theatrical run Alice in Wonderland UK exhibitors protested that Alice would be less threatened by the World Cup Alice in Wonderland other titles. Cineworld's chief executive Steve Wiener stated, "As leaders in 3D, we did not want the public to Alice in Wonderland out on such a visual spectacle. As the success of Avatar has shown, there is currently a huge appetite for the 3D experience". It also did not affect their plans to show the film in Spain, Germany, Portugaland Austria. On July 22,a teaser trailer from the Mad Hatter's point of view was released on IGN but was shortly taken down because Disney claimed that the trailer was not supposed to be out yet. The following day, Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer premiered at Comic-Con but the trailer shown was different from the one that leaked. The ComicCon version didn't have the Mad Hatter's dialogue. Instead, it featured " Time to Pretend " by MGMTand the clips shown were in different order than in the leaked version. The leaked version was originally to be shown to one of the three Facebook groups used to promote the film that had the most members. Also at ComicCon, props from the film were displayed in an "Alice in Wonderland" exhibit. Costumes featured in the exhibit included the Red Queen's dress, chair, wig, glasses, and scepter; the White Queen's dress, wig and a small model of her castle; the Mad Hatter's Alice in Wonderland, hat, wig, chair and table; Alice's dress and battle armor to slay the Jabberwocky. The soundtrack Alice in Wonderland composed by video games music composer Richard Jacques. The Blu-ray version has nine additional featurettes centered on additional characters, special effects and other aspects of the film's production. It failed to crack the top ten DVDs list in terms of units sold, but reached 10th place on that chart in terms of sales revenue. In North America, Alice in Wonderland is the forty-fourth-highest-grossing film but out of the top when adjusted for inflation. It is Alice in Wonderland the second-highest-grossing filmbehind Toy Story 3[94] the second-highest-grossing film starring Johnny Depp [84] and the highest- grossing film directed by Tim Burton. Outside North America, Alice is the thirteenth-highest-grossing film, [] the highest-grossing film, [] the fourth- highest-grossing Disney film, the second-highest-grossing film starring Johnny Depp [84] and the highest-grossing film directed by Tim Burton. The consensus is: "Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherence—and much of its heart—but it's an undeniable visual treat". Todd McCarthy of Variety praised it for its "moments of delight, humor and bedazzlement", but went on to say, "But it also becomes more ordinary as it goes along, building to a generic battle climax similar to any number of others in CGI-heavy movies of the past Alice in Wonderland years". It looks like a CGI head trip gone post apocalyptic. In the film's rather humdrum 3-D, the place doesn't dazzle—it droops. Several reviews criticized the decision to turn Alice into a "colonialist entrepreneur" at the end of the film setting sail for China. Game developer American McGeebest known for creating Alice and Alice: Madness Returnswas asked in a interview about Tim Burton's interpretation of the title character since both versions share almost similar dark and twisted tone of Wonderland. McGee praised the film's visuals and audio but criticized the lack of screen time Alice had compared to the other characters. He felt Alice did not have any purpose in the story and that she was merely used as a "tool". After the release and success of the movie, Walt Disney Pictures has announced the development of several live-action adaptations of their Animated Classics series. Walt Disney Theatrical was in early talks with Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton to develop the property as a Broadway musical. Burton will also render the overall designs for the stage musical. Woolverton will adapt her screenplay for the stage production. Neither a composer nor songwriting team has been chosen yet. Direction and choreography will be done by Rob Ashford. On December 7,Variety announced the development of a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Linda Woolverton returned to write a screenplay. Rhys Ifans and Sacha Baron Cohen are featured in the film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. Richard D. Release date. Running time. Danny Elfman. Main article: Almost Alice. Main article: Alice in Wonderland video game. Main article: Alice Through the Looking Glass film. Film portal United States portal Disney portal Cornwall portal. British Film Institute. Retrieved June 6, Archived from the original on February 19, Alice in Wonderland