Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn
Okay, let’s all just admit it: The only purpose this movie could ever possibly have is to be something to watch while you’re trippin’ balls on various particular substances. It’s not like there’s a coherent story or anything.
Alice is a polite young girl who follows a rabbit with a watch down his rabbit hole, which leads to “Wonderland,” a place where absolutely everybody and everything is insane. There’s all the classic characters, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, etc etc etc.
The film doesn’t so much have a plot; it’s more just a series of skits featuring different characters. I know, that’s what the original story is like, too. Guess why? And we come back to the drugs. Ah well, how can you talk about Alice in Wonderland without talking about the 60’s and all the drug references everyone so sneakily caught in it? LIKE THIS! HA!
Ed Wynn is in this movie as the voice of the Mad Hatter, which is one of those perfect casting choices. I’m pretty sure Wynn was born specifically to play the Mad Hatter, as he’s literally perfect for the role. There’s a reason that that whole tea party sequence is the best remembered one in the film, you know.
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