Alice in Wonderland

1951

★★★★ Liked

I've seen some people try and argue that this one's shaggy, inconsistent narrative structure as one long dream sequence (messily lurching from one bizarre, gorgeous, and trippy short film to another) makes it less good than some of the other Disney classics of this era but those people should consider that the exact opposite is true. The playfully surreal freedom of its animation style and pure commitment to freeform transformation/absurdity in its nonsense storytelling is what makes it feel special and used to kind of freak me out as a kid (I vaguely recall being frustrated that I had no idea what was going to happen from moment to moment, a feeling that's a total delight to me now), and despite being more on the sugary side than the original material it still retains the appeal of its artificiality and paradoxes. "In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures."

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