While not as overtly creepy or unsettling as Jonathan Miller's BBC adaptation (which falls apart towards the end, anyway), Svankmajer's great achievement lies in his version's huge versatility of imagination. Alice's comments are dehumanised as we focus on a huge close-up of her mouth, and the creatures she encounters are bizarre fragments of the familiar world (eg the caterpillar is an enormous sock). And let's not forget that the quirky humour of this version mirrors Carroll's own. To compare this to Disney (other than favourably, anyway) would be a great insult.
Review of Alice
