Okay, I'm not even an Alice in Wonderland fan, but I'm sure those who are will be quick to admit this version is pretty lousy. It's filmed as if it were a stage production, and the sets are all stylized to look like pencil sketches. The costumes are really strange; some look like community theater rentals, and others look like carnival paper maché creations in the same pencil sketch, black-and-white design. It's really strange, but for the strange sake of the story, I tried to keep an open mind.
Also, it's a musical. Some of you will be turned off just from that sentence alone, but I actually love musicals, when they're good. The songs in this version of Alice in Wonderland are atrocious.
Richard Burton's daughter Kate stars as the lead, and while she's very pretty, she isn't given any material to show off her acting chops, if she has them. Lots of familiar faces join her onstage: Austin Pendleton as the White Rabbit, Nathan Lane as a mouse, Eve Arden, Colleen Dewhurst, and Maureen Stapleton as queens, Donald O'Connor as a turtle, and her dad Richard as the White Knight. But mostly, you just feel sorry for these actors for doing Richard Burton's daughter a favor by joining the production, if that was their motivation. I can't think of any other reason.
Also, it's a musical. Some of you will be turned off just from that sentence alone, but I actually love musicals, when they're good. The songs in this version of Alice in Wonderland are atrocious.
Richard Burton's daughter Kate stars as the lead, and while she's very pretty, she isn't given any material to show off her acting chops, if she has them. Lots of familiar faces join her onstage: Austin Pendleton as the White Rabbit, Nathan Lane as a mouse, Eve Arden, Colleen Dewhurst, and Maureen Stapleton as queens, Donald O'Connor as a turtle, and her dad Richard as the White Knight. But mostly, you just feel sorry for these actors for doing Richard Burton's daughter a favor by joining the production, if that was their motivation. I can't think of any other reason.