It takes some pretty big balls and a crazy imagination to deliver an amazing yet completely creepy version of a classic like Alice in Wonderland. In Alice, the animals aren’t cute and would rather be left alone. To them Alice is a huge pain in the ass: eating their tarts, disrupting their cookouts (albeit on top of her head) and ruining a perfectly good tea party for two. She’s the friend you don’t want to come over and who then drinks all your Buds and never takes a hint when you want them to bounce. The worst.
She gets in all kinds of misadventures turning different sizes and meeting all kinds of crazy characters but you already know that… What’s really awesome about this film is the use of stop motion. My mind is always blown by this technique and here it adds to the mood perfectly. The other thing I love are the stylistic makeovers on the animal characters. Instead of making them cuddly they are all pretty grotesque. Most are actual dead animals with human glass eyes and in one case human dentures. It’s kinda gnarly yet totally brilliant.
