Von DeVon There are several creative elements of this re-interpretation that make this show well worth watching. Sadly, the titular character drags it down.Alice is a 'modern woman', grim and humorless. Headstrong like a child, willful and ignorant and very difficult to connect with. Her demanding nature doesn't mesh well with the 'damsel in distress' role the movie keeps trying to force her to fill and as a romantic interest, she's like a lump of warm clay. Get used to seeing her face flip between over-acted fear and haughty incredulity - when it's not just plain blank.If Alice had been cast a bit better, this could have been a smash hit. Instead, despite her, it just might be creative enough to still be a cult hit.

couchfrenchfry Another good made for TV version of Alice is 'Alice' (2009). Or as I like to call it, Just Plain Alice. Live action with a twist, the creatures of the original are all people. It's a science fiction fantasy where the white rabbit is a man who wears his white hair in two pony tails. He's a procurer of "oysters," us, who are milked for their emotions.All the Alice tropes are twisted into service. Such as a bit of verse recited by an Earth scientist who distills liquid emotions from the "oysters" kept entranced in a faux casino overhead, "The time has come my Walrus friend (a guy with a walrus mustache), to test our many stills. The oohs, the ahs, the healing drops, the passions and the thrills; and see how joy and awe and lust can all be turned to pills." Now that's just pure fun. "Take away that barrel of monkeys I ordered."Alice is a karate instructor. For some reason, Jack Heart gives her the "Stone of Wonderland." The stone is the heart of the "Looking Glass," a machine that transfers folks between Earth and Wonderland. I don't know if you can tell by what I've written, but this is a good story. The characters are real, however fanciful, and the story draws you in. You want to see what happens next and hope Alice finds her way home with the surprise person of interest she finds there.Matt Frewer of 'Eureka' and 'Max Headroom' is excellent as the White Knight. The role seems tailor made for him. There are a few non human characters, a robotic March Hare called Mad March. And the Jabberwocky, which seems to be part T. Rex, dragon, chameleon, and rabbit.For a made for TV film there are excellent special effects and artistic decor in Wonderland. Oh suits, I just got that. The enforcers wear suits and have discrete insignia like 3 club or 9 diamond. The story is resolved nicely. Great show. If you only saw it years ago on TV, have another look.

kill-the-boxtrolls This was an absolute total rip-off garbage of the classic books. Alice was NOT suggested to play an adult which she was supposed to play a teenager not an overacted drama queen adult. I thought this was one of my worst movies of the year far worst than bedtime stories, spiderwick, and bolt those were some of the movies that came out over a year now and those that I kinda disliked but this film was worst than these movies. It was boring, slow, garbage-like, lame, and weak that I had to turn around and watch War of the worlds now I can't understand how much people like this movie and others don't but if it were me, I would lower the rating. I expected this movie to be a charming movie with a girl that looked like a child in the ad but I knew it was a grown up but only cared about the script and the film, they were both lame. Alice in Wonderland is not my choice fairy tale but quite charming, this Alice was terrible, it made me turn around to change the channel and never expect to watch it again not even as a grandmother. I hope they don't put this trash on TV ever again unless they're going to do it every once in a while.

Spazatron14 I didn't think much of it when I hit record for Syfi's Alice, about a week later, I was scanning my DVR and found it; I clicked Play without a second thought. The main character and the commercials didn't appeal much to me and when it started I forgot what it was that I was watching. Jack and Alice were on the average side and my eyes were closing, then, Hatter came onto the scene. With his fake buck teeth and his funky hairdo, his design was a work of great creativity! His costume seemed to fit the character perfectly. And Andrew Lee Potts was love. I fell head over heels for Hatter, and every scene my eyes were drawn to this comically witty British man. He was funny, sexy and breathtaking. Alice was fun to think about, some parts you wouldn't even notice until re-watching it, or rewinding; when Tweedledee and Tweedledum were interviewing Alice I didn't even realize who they were until my mother pointed it out. This miniseries was spectacular! It left me on the edge of my seat, begging for more! I ended the show in tears, with a pleased smile upon my face.