REACTING to *Alice in Wonderland (1951)* WEIRDLY GOOD?? (First Time Watching) Animator Reacts

Did you watch this movie as a kid? Wasn't it weird? What did you think?

The thing i love with Alice in Wonderland is that you never know if the characters she encounters are threatening or helping ? You can't apply logic to their actions, they don't obey the same rules as Alice !!

My personal favorite part, the Mad Hatter “fixing” the watch was actually mostly improvised by the voice actors while having lunch in the recording booth. Walt Disney heard them, asked the sound engineers if it was possible to save that recording. The incredulous engineers said that it would be nearly impossible to cut out the sounds of the cutlery and normal luncheon sounds. Walt simply said “that’s your problem!” And they spent months cleaning up their lunchtime chit chat to what was used in the film.

As a kid the oysters story scared me more then the rest of the movie, not sure why but even as a young kid I understood they were eaten and it freaked me out.

Because of this movie, every time I see a crescent moon, I think of it as the Cheshire Cat's smile.

This is the original Alice In Wonderland, while the 2010 live action version acts as a sequel where Alice slowly begins to remember her crazy adventures in Wonderland.

Fun facts. To this day, Alice in Wonderland holds the record for the most songs in any Disney animated film. Also the actress who voiced Alice did so well Walt Disney asked her to be Wendy in Peter Pan, even the animators used the same face designs for both characters

The "Walrus and the Carpenter" is part of the "Alice in Wonderland" story. I loved this book as a child , then , at university, I took a course analyzing this book and others which was weird and fascinating. If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend you do.

The actor who voiced Smee is the white rabbit, and Alice is voiced by the actress who voiced Wendy!

Fantasia next, for sure. Also, this version of "Alice" is much, much truer to the source material than the Tim Burton version.

The use of extremely vivid color was inspired by Salvador Dali who was good friends with Walt Disney. Walt had wanted to do a version of Alice in Wonderland for many years, in fact some of his first major works were a combination of live action and animation in the 1920s called The Alice Comedies with his first failed company.

Alice is like a child wandering through the Red Light District, she doesn't know it is a dangerous seedy place, she just likes the colors and the funny people. It is only when she realizes that she is lost that she gets really sad. She is stuck between her innocence and what all the adults say is proper and right and wrong in the world. She hears what the adults are saying but doesn't really comprehend what they mean by what they say and of course the adults just expect Alice to simply go along and not question why things are the way they are.

There's an iconic image of Alice and Dorthy sitting together with Dinah and Toto off to each side being cute. Someone captioned it "I've seen some weird shit".

I recently read the original book for the first time and it's interesting what they left out and what they added in. For example, tweedledee and tweedledum, are not from wonderland in the book. they don't show up in Alice's adventures in wonderland. They're from the sequel book Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there. In that book she goes into another fantastical world, but it's not wonderland. So tweedledee and tweedledum, dispite what most adaptations show, aren't supposed to be in Wonderland. (neither are unbirthdays, the walrus and the carpenter and the flowers, they're all from through the looking Glass.)

My favourite little tidbit about this movie is that the Cheshire Cat’s song that he sings is in fact the opening part of the Jabberwocky poem, it’s one of those things that you only notice if you’re familiar and truly paying attention…I sing it to myself all the time still 😅

I really loved this movie growing up and I always thought it was interesting that the voice actress for Alice also voices Wendy from the original Peter Pan.

Ever since I as a kid, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland was very strange and yet very entertaining to me. The colors of the film were very vibrant, the characters were enjoyable, and I appreciate the humor coming from them as well, especially the Cheshire Cat, who is my favorite from the film. Very cool reaction overall!

In case no one has mentioned it yet, Sterling Holloway is the voice of the Cheshire Cat. His voice is immediately recognizable in everything he did, and if you close your eyes while the Cheshire Cat talks, you'll hear Winnie the Pooh, which he also voiced.

I feel like this movie had a lot of hidden meanings to it. Like the fall down the tunnel with stuff we recognize is like when you are "falling asleep" and other stuff 🤔

The Mad Hatter was voiced by amazing Vaudevillian performer Ed Wynn. He wasn’t putting on a voice, he really sounded like that. He was in two very memorable roles on The Twilight Zone and even had a role inThe Diary of Anne Frank.