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Whistle Stopper - Alice
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: First Run Features
Starring: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Directed By: Jan Svankmajer
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302540093
Format: Animated
ISBN: 6302540097
Label: First Run Features
Manufacturer: First Run Features
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Run Features
Release Date: 1996-06-25
Running Time: 84
Studio: First Run Features
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
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Customer Rating:
Summary: LOVED IT
Comment: The unique style... Creepy Animation... It all just goes together! One of my fav alice in wonderland videos... If you looking for a creepy alice... This is it!!! Its worth a good look... I have watched it may times... reminds me of the quay brothers... stop motion... very unique the only part i didnt like was the dubbed words in it... the movie would be so much better if the whole close up of the mouth was taken out... Its very annoying.. you start to get into the movie and then a close up of alices mouth comes on screen and says "said the white rabbit" or "said Alice" But if you can get past that... The movie is excellent!
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Summary: If you like it creepy
Comment: Alice in Wonderland. Not scary. Not a great deal of suspense, I mean we all know the story by now.
But the lack of vibrant color, the eerie motion of claymation, and the sound effects that are crystal clear will leave a less-than-warm-feeling with you when you are dont with the movie.
If you enjoy the fantasy with a darker twist, and don't mind watching your tv with a very confused look for several parts, this is a highly interesting and different version of the story we're all familiar with.
not a comedy, suspense or horror. Just the regular story in a darker and more twisted perspective.
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Summary: My favorite adaptation of this particular story...and probably the darkest.
Comment: This film is amazing! You will never look at the Disney-esque version of Wonderland the same way ever again. This film is definitely not for the kiddies. Strictly for adults. The stop motion animation is awesome. The only thing that I don't like about the DVD is that it is dubbed in English. I'd much rather watch the film in it's original language, however, I love this film all the same. It's like a nightmare caught on film. Totally chilling and compelling from start to finish!
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Summary: A beautiful creative nightmare...
Comment: Jan Svankmajer + household items = surreal masterpiece!!.
its an adventure of the psyche... an exercice for imagination. Dreams and nightmares mix together to give an interpretation of another masterpiece such as Alice Adventures in Wonderland. As you go on you will be delighted by the use of stop motion animation with live action as well (Kristýna Kohoutová as Alice). A world full of nonsense imagery perfectly done by Svankmajer. Elements of surrealism such as visual puns,unexpected surprise and juxtaposition, "non sequitur", size to object contrast among others.
Mind that this movie is not an adaptation of the book (i've read it a LOT)... though it has some parts of it. also there is no dialogue... only some comments mainly by Alice ( i think the parts with the caterpillar and mad tea party is where you get a little bit of conversation). This is only a surreal artist visual interpretation at its best!!... it can't get better than that. believe me... after you see this one you will not see household items the same as before :-)
I recommend this one, along with "Faust", to all lovers of surrealism and mind bending imagery.
btw... i love when Alice changes in size (shrink) LOL
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Summary: Unique, mind numbing, and ahead of its time
Comment: Svankmajer new what to do when it came to making a "real version of Alice in Wonderland." But, you must know...you MUST like stop motion animation to enjoy this film.
THE GOOD- Okay, to start off...the movie is highly entertaining, a very unique vision of a timeless tale...it is dark, unsettling, nightmarish, and has a very realistic feel oddly enough...
And, to top off the camera shots and compostion as well as a great acting job by "Alice", the film contains some of the best stop motion animation i have ever seen...especially given the time, place and equipment it was made with...very entertaining and very unique...
THE BAD- I can't really say much bad about it except for the obvious...
Svankmajer created a film with an idea ahead of it's time...
The editing job is choppy...and there is absolutely no soundtrack (music). The film is dubbed in English, so the talking that the film does have is obviously dubbed. I thought the close up shots of her mouth would get old, but they actually had a purpose by the end of the film.
Like i said, the idea is ahead of it's time. To me, it would be like making the Lord of the Rings with a guy in an aluminum armor suit and a table cloth for a cape, a cardboard horse, clay and stick monsters and battles, and a VHS-C camcorder. It was possible to get the idea across and the vision across...but i feel that if this film was made these days using similar techniques...it would have looked a little better...but overall, the film is unique and wonderful...the ending is one to remember as well...
OVERALL- This film deserves every bit of 5 stars as well as the short film that comes with it...but neither are for children...it is slightly haunting with a claustrophobic feel...and letting a child see this film would probably scar them in my opinion :) Very good vision and very memorable... worth the money and time.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's simply a kid's film. Young Alice (Kristyna Kohoutová, spoken by Camilla Power) watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a 19th-century toy store come to life, with a few specimens from a natural history museum thrown in. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer retains the familiar story elements but tweaks them with bizarre imagery brought to herky-jerky life with his spasmodic style of stop-motion animation. The caterpillar becomes a sock puppet with dentures, while other crazy creatures materialize as creepy skull-headed beings that bleed sawdust. Throughout the tale Svankmajer returns to punctuating close-ups of Alice's lips telling the story, just to remind us that this is a tale told. In the best surrealist tradition Svankmajer uses familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, giving a fantasy quality to the banal (and the not so banal) while tipping the dream logic to the edge of nightmare. While the imagery remains more unsettling than genuinely disturbing, younger children will certainly be happier with Disney's brightly colored animated classic Alice in Wonderland. Older children and adults will better appreciate Svankmajer's sly visual wit and unusual animation style. --Sean Axmaker
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