A visual feast that maintained most of my very favorite bits from the original Lewis Carroll books, (though not necessarily in sequence). I cannot imagine better casting (in 1999) highlighted by the superb performances of Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle, Christopher Lloyd as the White Knight, Peter Ustinov as Walrus and Whoopi Goldberg as Cheshire Cat. Tina Majorino was absolutely believable as the unbelievable little girl Alice - won't she be something to watch as she grows up? My one complaint was a voice - while Miranda Richardson created the most wonderfully faithful Queen of Hearts, I would put a pillow to that "voice" if I had to live with it!
This version maintained not only my enjoyment through several viewings but that of my cinematically precocious 7 yr old son - (A fan who can already tell the difference between the effects of George Pal, Ray Harryhausen, Stan Winston, Buddy Baker... and who gets as excited by a big screen showing of The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston as Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers.
This is a DVD I'll be buying.
