Alice in Wonderland
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 1933 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Most of the superstars in this fascinating but offbeat production are thoroughly unrecognizable, buried under pounds of makeup or smothered in cumbersome costumes. Read full review
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VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
On the screen it is vividly realized in all its fantastic angles. The humor is genuine and the treatment satisfying on its literary side. But an hour and a quarter of it is overpoweringly sedative. [26 Dec 1933, p.10]
50
The New YorkerPauline Kael
The film was lavishly produced, with great care given to the sets and costumes and makeup, but the spirit is missing.
50
Vanity FairHelen Brown Norden
It was hoped that the picture would have a large appeal for children, but the consensus of opinion seems to have been that even the Little Ones had rather see Jean Harlow any day, or else stay home in the nursery and play Tick-Tack-Toe. Read full review
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Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Most of the blame must rest with McLeod, whose incredibly cackhanded direction piles on the whimsy by the bucket-load and can't come to grips with the absurdity at all. Read full review
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