This version of Lewis Carroll's literary classic is the 30th animated adaptation from Australian animation company Burbank Studios. Unfortunately, they don't come close to their best performances so far with this film adaptation. Of course, shortening Carroll's main work to 51 minutes is also a difficult undertaking, but it is above all the colorfulness of the story, the madness associated with the visuality and the explosion of creativity that is difficult, if not difficult, in the Burbank films that are often very scaled down in general is impossible to grasp. Richard Trueblood might not have been the best choice at this point either, since up until then he had been more involved with individual episodes of well-known cult classics from the cartoon world of the 80s and had no experience with film concepts that should stand for themselves. For Trueblood himself, the point of view is certainly the other way around, so that a Burbank project was probably a good introduction to the world of cartoons for him. He could probably try it out safely, but also with little resources.
The result is a film that is unfortunately often very pale, with few background drawings, halting movements and such a shortened plot that the imagery of the novel hardly shines through. The superficial drawings of the characters aren't bad, but they can't keep up with the Disney classic on any level. The dialogues don't match the wit or the complexity of the original either, but the largest of all animation houses has already proven that this would be possible. In principle, the same applies to the song of the film, if you compare it with the great musical accompaniment of the Disney classic. But the mere fact that it is there speaks for the director's ambitions and it's not bad to listen to in the context given to it either.
So there is no terrible, but definitely a far removed version of "Alice in Wonderland" left, which simply has too many weaknesses and reminds too little of the intentions of the great author.
The result is a film that is unfortunately often very pale, with few background drawings, halting movements and such a shortened plot that the imagery of the novel hardly shines through. The superficial drawings of the characters aren't bad, but they can't keep up with the Disney classic on any level. The dialogues don't match the wit or the complexity of the original either, but the largest of all animation houses has already proven that this would be possible. In principle, the same applies to the song of the film, if you compare it with the great musical accompaniment of the Disney classic. But the mere fact that it is there speaks for the director's ambitions and it's not bad to listen to in the context given to it either.
So there is no terrible, but definitely a far removed version of "Alice in Wonderland" left, which simply has too many weaknesses and reminds too little of the intentions of the great author.