![]() ![]() ![]() With her army of cards, she plays a wicked game of croquet with flamingoes as mallets, hedgehog as a ball and cards as hoops, all the while displaying a lethal temper. No less impressive is Verna Felton as the raucous voice of the Queen of Hearts in some of the film's funniest moments. Other bits are equally brilliant-the shuffling army of cards in the Queen of Hearts episode the baby oysters clothed in blue bonnets and pink dresses for the Walrus and the Carpenter the droll humor in the Tweedledum/Tweedledee sequence the smoking Caterpillar becoming irate when his three inches of height becomes the subject of conversation and of course, the Mad Tea Party, full of hilarious slapstick and immensely aided by the voice talents of Bill Thompson (White Rabbit), Jerry Colonna (March Hare) and Ed Wynn (Mad Hatter). (It reminded me of the snooty elephants laughing and speaking with contempt of the new baby elephant in Dumbo). For me, a highlight of the film is the singing/talking flower sequence ("Golden Afternoon") with its haughty flowers discussing Alice as if she was some kind of other worldly creature with funny looking stems. Faults and all, it's still a colorful event-probably one of the richest uses of color Disney ever attempted and with some wonderful styling in its background art. Then too, it's the episodic quality of the whole story structure that upsets some as well as the frantic cartoon movements of its weird characters. Perhaps part of the problem is there is seldom a letup in the zany goings-on-seldom a chance to draw a breath and rest between each overly imaginative episode. ![]() And yet, for all its achievement in the art of animation, this Disney film has always drawn mixed notices. Let's face it, there are moments in ALICE IN WONDERLAND that are absolutely dazzling, imaginative and as artistic as anything the Disney artists were capable of doing. ![]()
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