"Japan beats Disney with this mature version of 'Alice in Wonderland'."

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2007)

My Take: Imagination (and animation) at its best.
I have grown up watching Disney films, even now, I still watch some. So I was startled when I watched this animated fantasy film, which was more aimed on older viewers. The borrowed the English-dubbed version, and it was still great. The film is an adult-oriented version of Lewis Carroll's tale "Alice in Wonderland", wherein a little girl is transported to a world of weird and wonderful spirits, after her parents have been turned into pigs by a witch after they intruded their world. For her parents to be turned back into their human forms, she is forced to work on a spirit bathhouse, run by the witch who turned his parents into pigs.
The animation was superb and the story was excellent. In any version you want, I recommend you to watch it. With the kids, or by yourself. Really a superb fantasy.
Rating: ***** out of 5.