I saw this in the library the other day and snagged it from the new releases shelves. It’s a 2009 television miniseries inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The show is two episodes spans 240 minutes (4 hours). Everything you know will be turned on its head.
Twenty something Alice (Caterina Scorsone) lives at home with her mom. She has a black belt in karate, a missing father, and a new guy in her life. He’s pretty dreamy. On the night Jack Chase (Philip Winchester) proposes and is rejected he is also kidnapped.
Determined to rescue him, Alice chases after the bad guys. Interjection here—what girl would do this black belt or not? Maybe Buffy, where odds no matter how they’re stacked against her count for squat. Anyway… Alice runs into a glass mirror and wakes up in Wonderland.
There she finds out just how creepy Wonderland has gotten since the children’s book was written. Wonderland is a totalitarian state ruled by the Red Queen. To Alice’s annoyance she is repeatedly called an Oyster by the inhabitants of Wonderland. (An Oyster is a human from the Real World whose emotions will be harvested to make Tea. This Tea is how the Red Queen controls her subjects. It’s all about instant gratification.)
The 411:
- The Red Queen wants the magic ring that will open up the mirror between Wonderland and the Real World because without it the mirror shuts down and she’s without a way to harvest humans and control the world economy.
- Jack Chase is not what and who he seems but then again he is. The whole is he, isn’t he is done very well.
- Hatter (Andrew Lee Potts) is adorable and not insane in this version. He and Alice form a romantic attachment to one another over the course of the mini-series which starts and stops as Hatter fights against his selfish nature. I was very pleased with the ending to this show. It made me happy.
- The White Knight (Matt Frewer) is a bit overmuch. I really couldn’t stand him… or maybe his beard. His performance was a cliché on that particular character type.
- Dodo (Tim Curry) is hardly in this at all. I honestly don’t know why his name is even listed on the top of the DVD.
- Duchess (Charlotte Sullivan) is another character whose motives are hard to grasp. I can’t decide if she’s meant to play the role of the Chesire Cat or not.
The Costumes: A lot of time and effort went into creating the costumes. I especially loved casino girls' and suits' outfits. Very go-go girl and James Bond.
The CGI: Was pretty excellent in my opinion. I loved the city on the water with all the fog. Very pretty.
The Sets: My goodness -- who would think falling apart cities could be pretty? Well of course they can be pretty when set high up in the air. I loved the city especially when first introduced to it because it looked like Roman aqueducts meet Venice canals ran through the whole city.
Rating: 3.5 Stars – 4 Stars
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Wow–this looks like a fascinating miniseries. I’m definitely going to have to add this one to my to-view list.
It was really good. I recommend it.
I thought this show was pretty good. I loved the Hatter and the actor who plays him. I kind of hated the plot with the Red Queen and Alice’s father, though. And I thought the actress who played Alice was too old for the part.
Caterina Scorsone is definitely older than the 20 the mini-series claims Alice to be, that wasn’t the problem for me though. Caterina played Alice just a little too cynical and abrasive at times. Not all the time, but some of the time.
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