Lewis Carroll's bewitching, playful and eccentric tale has captured our imagination for over 125 years.

Now Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen have been brought to life on the magical side of the looking glass in a dance fantasy as original as the story it tells. A magnificent array of costumes, colors and sets create a Wonderland of kaleidoscopic beauty. The interweaving of ballet, mime, acrobatics and theatre gracefully dramatizes the story, which is given voice through mesmerizing music of Viktor Kalabis, flawlessly played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

V.I.E.W. Video is proud to present this stunning new production.
Entertainment for the whole family to share, Alice in Wonderland in Dance is a feast for the eyes, ears and imagination. A perfect way to introduce children to the magical world of dance!

The music is very disturbing, which makes one not want to view the film again. It is not memorable what-so-ever and it just seems like somebody is banging on a piano and blowing into a woodwind without a music sheet in front of them.

I do not know what Alice's "friends" are in this movie. There is this school teacher and she wears her clothes backwards and thing pop out of the chalkboard. There is a beachball that is being passed around and people examine it. There is a really bizzare queen who dresses in black. And there is this man dressed up like a march hare and a white bunny, wearing a top hat. I think that is the March Hare, the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter at the same time.

The following statement is definite: AS OF NOW, I AM WARNING EACH AND EVERY SOUL WHO HAPPENS TO "FORTUNATELY" STUMBLE UPON THIS REVIEW THAT YOU NEVER EVER THINK OR EVEN DREAM ABOUT SEEING THIS. ALICE IN WONDERLAND: A DANCE FANTASY IS ONE OF THE WORST VIDEOS IN YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED!


Surreal and somewhat menacing; little to do with "Alice"   April 23, 1999
 26 out of 32 found this review helpful

I bought this video because my 3-year-old daughter loves dance and likes the Alice story. This surreal Czech production, however, has little to do with Alice in Wonderland. In fact, this video doesn't really have much of a story line at all. It does have Alice, but the other characters are either ambiguous (Is that man in the top hat and fur chaps the mad hatter or the march hare?) or completely new (like a school marm who wears her clothes backward). The costumes and make-up are very much in the vein of "cirque de soleil," which could be scary for some kids. Also, the music is very dark and somewhat menacing at points.

All this said, my daughter has been requesting this video. The downside is that she doesn't feel comfortable watching it on her own, so I have to sit there next to her. (I get to read a book, but she spends a lot of time asking me "What are they doing?" My answers usually begin with, "Um, I'm not sure, but I think . . . ") The upside is that the video is only 27 minutes long.