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I just wanted to punch Alice in the face

posted 16 years ago by poupee_souffle
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I sat through the whole film just because I love Alice in Wonderland but watching Tina Majorino is a pain in the neck. I just knew off the bat she wasn't English and there is something about her that made me just want to punch her throughout the whole film. Maybe it's her voice or her annoying facial expressions or the way she laughs. I don't know. Alice for me is a delicate and dainty doll-like girl and Tina just doesn't cut it. I've never been annoyed by a portrayal of a role in film before and this is a first. She must be really bad because usually I can stomach the really awful ones like J. Lo in Gigli or Madonna in Swept Away.

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[–] poupee_souffle 16 years ago

Well, I never noticed the etiquette lessons taking effect. I know Alice is rough around the edges but Tina's Alice seems like a very rude outright tomboy. It doesn't suit with the theme of the film which is colourful and zingy.

No offense to Tina, she is quite pretty but the way she looked and acted on the film just seems like a very huge casting mistake.

[–] ricodigiorgio 16 years ago

I thought she was pretty annoying as well. I thought her British accent was fake. I only started to like her when I found out she's an Italian-American (it's an Italian thing), but then she's giving us a bad name, what after being in Napolean Dynamite and all. Look, off subject, but that movie sucked. Anyways... I also thought (and this is very embarresing...) that Tina Majorino looked liked some girl in a porno once... and I'm done!

I shall make him an offer he cant refuse - The Godfather.

[–] undiscoveredbum 16 years ago

Fanstastic casting for that vast majority of the roles. Miranda Richarsdon doing a fantastic Queen of Hearts (all that practice in Blackadder as Queenie I expect)

BUT.

That waste of space playing Alice. Why? Why cast someone whos only expose to an English accent was clearly a ninth rate version of My Fair Lady with Marlon Brando playin Elize Doolittle. She murdered the role and made me want to take an axe to the TV. Swine. May her lungs fill with her own bile and she drown.

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[–] mtchbvn 16 years ago

Is this the version with Sterling Holloway as the frog?
Interesting as Holloway went on to be the voice of the Cheshire Cat 16 years later for Disney in the animated version...

Can you tell me how to find it...? Or is it legally downloadable somewhere...?

[–] bananabry 9 years ago

Is this the version with Sterling Holloway as the frog?
Interesting as Holloway went on to be the voice of the Cheshire Cat 16 years later for Disney in the animated version...

This is kind of funny, especially on IMDB, where such information is readily available.

Clearly, this version is from 1999. Sixteen years later would make the "Disney" version released, well, in 2015.

Sterling Holloway passed away in 1992, several years before this version was produced.

The Disney version was released in 1951: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043274/combined

Holloway played the Frog in 1933: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023753/combined

Oh, well... 😊

[–] DwightFry 9 years ago

The previous poster was actually responded to a now deleted reply which likely mentioned the 1933 version.

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