Tonight with the Family: Disney’s Weirdest

On a beautiful spring afternoon in an English park, little Alice, sitting on a tree branch, lets her thoughts flow instead of reviewing her history lessons. While his dreams are lost on the surface of the lake, he sees the reflection of a character who is unique, to say the least: a small white rabbit, dressed in a robe and equipped with a pocket watch, who walks away. full speed. A rush to claim that he is “late, late!”

Trying hard to figure out which important meeting the White Rabbit needs to go to so urgently, Alice begins to follow him and without thinking, first falls into a bottomless hole. For a little girl, this is the beginning of an extraordinary adventure in Wonderland, a place without a head and a tail, where sailor dodos, singing roses, cats with toothless smiles or completely crazy hats walk.

A true oddity in Enchanted Studios’ long filmography, Alice in Wonderland is a film that cannot be compared to any of the Disney classics. Utterly mad and insane, like virtually all of its characters (except Alice), this film, unlike any other, offers us (in just 93 minutes) a wild, dizzying and eccentric journey without the slightest break.

From the moment Alice enters the rabbit hole to the final seconds of the film, the feature film doesn’t allow itself the slightest pause and seamlessly moves through the little girl’s extravagant encounters, from one crazy scene to the next.

Very funny, served by flawless animation that connects Disney’s beginnings to the cartoon side and essential songs, the film is a real sensory and almost hallucinatory experience that can sometimes confuse the viewer, but promises an unforgettable memory.

(Re)discover also a Disney classic released over 70 years ago and almost perfect.)

This project, which Walt Disney had been planning for many years (he had already played Alice in short films combining animation and live action in the 1930s), was not a great success at its inception. released in cinemas. in 1951. As some critics and fans of the original work (Lewis Carroll) shunned, Alice in Wonderland didn’t really work at the box office.

However, the film was given a second chance more than a decade later, in the late 60s and the rise of the hippie movement, which offered a new audience a true psychedelic experience.

What will you like…

• A whirlwind of separate personalities, each crazy about the other, that Alice meets throughout the film. All in all, mentions include the Doorknob, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dummy and of course the ineffable Cheshire Cat (voiced by the great Roger Carell).

• The film’s pervasive humor, often completely absurd, but which hits the mark every time.

• Music and songs, all very successful, even if we have a slight preference for famous and memorable sequences. Not a birthday.

What could be bothering them…

• The Queen of Hearts, who only appears at the end of the film, but whose uncontrolled outbursts of anger can impress the youngest.

• A sad story of over-inquisitive little oysters with a truly tragic outcome.

• The overall vibe of a movie that may not be Disney’s priority for your kids to see, and which the youngest viewers may struggle to fully grasp.

(Re)discover the famous ‘Alice in Wonderland’ excerpt…