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MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1951 DVD Release: 06/30/2000 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 15 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 156 Genres: Fantasy, Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy, Animated Musical, Fairy Tales & Legends See Also: Alice in Wonderland [Masterpiece Edition]

This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's -Alice in Wonderland and -Through the Looking Glass. Chasing after the White Rabbit, who runs into view singing "I'm Late! I'm Late!," Alice falls down the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy alternate world of Wonderland. She grows and shrinks after following the instructions of a haughty caterpillar, attends a "Very Merry Unbirthday" party in the garden of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, stands in awe as the Cheshire Cat spouts philosophy, listens in rapt attention as Tweedledum and Tweedledee relate the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter (a sequence usually cut when Alice is shown on TV), and closes out her day with a hectic croquet game at the home of the Red Queen. The music and production design of Alice in Wonderland is marvelous, but the film is too much of a good thing, much too frantic to do full honor to the whimsical Carroll original, and far too episodic to hang together as a unified feature film. One tactical error is having Alice weep at mid-point, declaring her wish to go home: This is -Alice in Wonderland, Walt, not Wizard of Oz! Its storytelling shortcomings aside, Alice in Wonderland is superior family entertainment (never mind the efforts in the 1970s to palm off the picture as a psychedelic "head" film). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Kathryn Beaumont - Alice
Ed Wynn - Mad Hatter
Richard Haydn - Caterpillar
Sterling Holloway - Cheshire Cat
Jerry Colonna - March Hare

Disney's take on the fairy tale -Alice in Wonderland comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. An English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.0, while a Spanish soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no subtitles on this release, but the English soundtrack is closed captioned. Supplemental materials include a pair of singalongs, a theatrical trailer, a making-of featurette, a storybook, and a trivia game. This is a fine disc that will please both kids and adults. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide