NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

zkonedog A few years ago, striking when the iron was hot in the wake of the "Wicked" phenomenon, the SciFi channel released a miniseries entitled "Tin Man", which put a darker, more science-fictiony spin on the classic Oz tale. This "Alice" effort, once again capitalizing on the buzz surrounding the Johnny Depp-starring Alice movie that is soon coming to theaters, does much of the same, but fails to maintain the bar set by its predecessor.The biggest problem comes in the area of acting. Though the "Alice" cast is by no means terrible, they pale in comparison to the great actors in "Tin Man". While Caterina Scorsone plays a decent lead character as Alice, she doesn't bring the sort of energy that Zooey Deschanel brought to Dorothy, by comparison. The series also suffers from a lack of a very interesting, likable main character, with "Hatter" once again not living up to the performance of Dorothy's side-kick "Glitch".Another area where this film is lacking is in the emotional department. At the end of "Tin Man", I actually felt as if I cared about each of the main characters and really wanted to see how they would "turn out". I had no such feelings at the end of Alice, as even a superb final scene couldn't change the fact that the characters hadn't really been developed enough to really feel for them.So, while this miniseries did provide the usual fare, such as crazy creatures and nice little nods to Lewis Carroll's classic tale, it didn't do much else in terms of character development or outstanding plot points. If you're into the homage sort of thing than you will find it decent, as I did, but don't expect to be blown away.

yasoo-04 If you don't link it to the original Alice in Wonderland Disney movie, then it is worth watching.I think it would have been better if they named the movie/ mini series something other than Alice so people won't compare it to Alice in Wonderland. They took some ideas from the Disney movie, like going to a "wonderland" and they modified some characters. However, this mini series is not the real version of the cartoon, it has a totally different story.Never the less, I enjoyed watching it, and somehow it made me feel like a kid watching a movie in the 90s. The costumes, scenes, and acting felt like a 90s movie for kids/teenagers.It is a cute/weird movie, watch it if you have some time to kill :)

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.

LSGPhoenix When watching this on DVD I began to realize as I reached the end that the writers got lost somewhere. Being a nearly 3 and one half hour mini-series I can almost understand how this would happen. But when you get to the end and the characters, namely Alice, isn't making any sense from the beginning of the story, it just seems like a jumbled mess.First, the length. Way too long with multiple scenes that use figureheads like Kathy Bates talking about nothing that relates to the plot. Or Alice's making it to the castle, only to be rescued, only to try to return... Time wasters to make what should have been a two-hour TV movie into a two-part mini-series. Essentially dragging the viewers into a long and drawn out and often dull experience which lacks any sort of "wonder" at all. I also can appreciate the need for day-players, or name actors who will help sell a project because people will watch them. But when you have actors like Harry Dean Stanton, and Tim Curry in the show for mere minutes, just so you can put their name on the cover of the DVD, I'm sorry but that's LAME.Caterina Scorsone did a really good job with the subtleties. Her facial expressions during any dramatic scene were perfect. She was not, however, a great pick for the martial art, stand up and fight character she was made into. Her moving speeches towards the end were really really forced, as if she was thinking in her head "who would write this crap?" while saying it. In any case, hats off to her.In essence, avoid this if you can. Poor adaptation using character names for the sake of calling it an Alice in Wonderland tale.