getting small, growing tall,
down the rabbit hole, she'll fall
but where she'll land,
nobody knows, in wonderland."
Alice in Wonderland is a 1995 Direct to Video animated film produced by Jetlag Productions and distributed by GoodTimes Entertainment as an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Meet Alice, voiced by Venus Terzo, a curious young girl whose boredom sparks her curiosity after meeting a white rabbit who appears to be late for an undisclosed event. She falls down the rabbit's hole and is taken into an odd world filled with dozens of other unusual inhabitants, including a caterpillar, the grinning and laid-back Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the irate March Hare, and the red hot-tempered Queen of Hearts. She even stumbles across several treats that make her grow as small as a dormouse and as large as a house! Now, she only wants to find her way home to her sister and cat Dinah.
Out of all of the animated productions by Jetlag Productions, this was a major shift in art style and atmosphere from the wildness of its 1951 Disney counterpart. Doing away with that movie's bizarre, abstract imagery in favor of a more traditionally tame setting while still maintaining very colorful imagery.
This story features examples of:
- Age Lift: This version of Alice looks and sounds older than even Disney's Alice, with her age appearing to be anywhere from 13 to 14 years old. Having Venus Terzo do a slightly lighter version of her Princess Lana voice also plays a key factor in this.
- Animesque: Like other works by Jetlag Productions, much of the animation team was based in Japan, and many anime-influenced characteristics are seen in many of the human and humanoid characters.
- Crying a River: Alice cries so much after being stuck in the rabbit hole for far too long that she creates an ocean with creatures that come out of nowhere and drift off to a beach.
- High-Class Glass: The white rabbit, a major servent to the Queen, is given one of these in this adaptation.
- Pink Means Feminine: Oddly enough, Alice's dress in this adaptation is pink in contrast to the usual light blue. Likewise, her shoes match her dress in color.
- Real After All: Hinted to be the case with the tiny versions of the Wonderland denizens at the end of the story.
