Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Nostalgia Critic)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 * Aired: July 23rd, 2013
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Transcript
(After the opening, we open on The Critic sitting in the chair, saying his opening line he goes into the review.)

Nostalgia Critic: Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don't have to. Remember how I did those different versions... (a DVD cover of Alice in Wonderland is shown; vo) such as a Disney movie. (back to NC himself) Aside from that early review...

(a briefly review clip of Top 11 Saddest Moments is shown, footage: Disney's Alice in Wonderland is shown)

Alice: But I very seldom follow it! (sobs)

NC: And remember this one...

(a briefly review clip of End of Days with any footage clips shown of Alice in Wonderland when the Dormouse runs across the table screaming: "CAT!" which Mad Hatter and March Hare trying to catch the dormouse and the bum-priest grabbing things in End of Days, with people screaming merge together.)

NC: And maybe this one...

(a briefly review of The Magic Voyage when the seagull trying to catches Pico with a NOISIER footage clip shown of Alice in Wonderland where The March Hare eyes move back and forth, saying "MAD WATCH! MAD WATCH! MAD WATCH!")

NC: And yet, also, remember what I have an another one is the god-awful (poster of...) Care Bears' third movie. But you're so special, didn't you?

(a clip of Care Bears in Wonderland, Alice is shown)

Alice: I'm just not special.

NC: Yeah, but I don't care what the hell happened but you SUCK!

(the original book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass images is shown at multiple times)

NC: (vo) Even this book was only in the public domain, it means that anyone can use or adapt the story for their own purposes. But you can freely use any text quotes and illustrations from the author's (Lewis Carroll) work with these characters.

NC: But if they can use a different version which is not like a Disney version which they could see an underrated anime approach yet.

(the title Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi and the clips are shown as NC speaks)

NC: (vo) To be premise, the anime version was a translated in Japanese, "Manga Fairy Tales of the World" (translate Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi)*. This is a forgotten shown where any produced to directing it by Madhouse Studio (aka Madhouse Inc.), which an anthology series based on fairy tales and classic stories, produced by Dax International. Every tale is produced by a different staff who gave each episode their own distinctive style.


 * (NOTE: "まんが世界昔ばなし" is translated in Japanese to "Manga World Old Tales" in English)

(a images of Osamu Dezaki, Akio Sugino, Yoshifumi Kondō, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Toyoo Ashida, Shuichi Seki, Mariko Miyagi and Akira Nagoya are shown as NC speaks)

NC: (vo) They have among the various animated directors who worked on the series. The narration is provided by Mariko Miyagi, who also voices all the characters in the series along.

(back to more clips are shown as NC speaks)

NC: (vo) This series aired in Japan on TBS (aka Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.) from 70s. The series features adaptations of the public domain histories such as fairy tales, legends, literature classics and famous characters biographies. It consists of 127 episodes, each one combining two different stories, for a total of 181 story arcs which run for 10 minutes each, except for 13 mid-series stories that covered an entire half-hour episode. Some story arcs in the second half of the series are told over several episodes, (a images between A Little Princess and Les Misérables is shown.) The series was also released in several other countries and selected episodes of the show were released during the '80s in English-speaking countries by different companies under various titles. They had released it under the titles Tales of Magic and Merlin's Cave, while another version was titled Wonderful, Wonderful Tales From Around the World. Some episodes were adapted by Astro Boy's pioneer (a picture of Fred Ladd is shown) and broadcast by archival educational company (BFA Educational Media) on Paramount's CBS as single half-hour specials. And this is not how they didn't seen it yet.

NC: Unless, of course, they got a mixing up where TMS gotta do make a god-awful mess-up. And I just wanna talk about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which they have one of the strangest and most bizarre approach a first underrated Disney-like depiction remake.

(the title is shown* and the movie clips are shown as NC speaks)

NC: (vo) Unlike this 1951 animated version, this title is so wrongful, but these scenes might be dark and chaotic, mixing up their own techniques for a public domain stories to life. In fact, they also love the immersing ourselves once again in the universe of the screenwriter (Richard Outten), known for films like (posters of...) Journey 2, Lionheart, and Pet Sematary Two, who also works on its remake of this one, far from the Disney version comes out in 1991 lose from (shows a poster of...) Disney's Beauty and the Beast, also with Fievel Goes West, My Girl. and Only Yesterday. This film, to be fair, still produced at TMS Entertainment, who brought the perchance dreams to puke of all messy, (a poster of Little Nemo is shown) teamed up with Madhouse Production, who that creates (shown on a TMS/Madhouse version of Treasure Island) a supernatural pirate island (shown on a TMS/Madhouse version of Nobody's Boy Remi) and a homeless child adventure, presenting a story about a young girl discovered an imaginary world whose some different stories are going to mixing up to a epic darkest and freakish world ever. This is a fairy tale with the darker and weirdest elements, most likely that same episode. Still the animation is nicely and those same designs are decent which that one (a shown of Gakken Japan cover...) is the forgotten Gakken approach at the same time. The characters were just really pointless to me and sometimes came across as out of these stories. It started production in 1988, but was released in 1991. It went through a few directors, few writers, several animators and several idea men. Had it been released after Little Nemo, it probably would've done better. There's a lot of homage fairy tales that simply fit. But maybe there's an awesome cliché to that, too.


 * (NOTE: This title may be wrong was "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" but it might be changed to "Alice" in Japanese.)

NC: Well, you've heard me shit on the messing up fairy tales. Let's everything on my command and take a freakish look!

(A shortly briefly clip of Care Bears in Wonderland when Alice screaming in horror silently, and then there's what she's screaming at: the wizard's mouth has gaped out into an impossibly distended set of jaws that barely seem connected, with a mass of twisted fangs framing the gaping space, sitting underneath a huge, bugged out, almost insectile pair of blank white eyes.)

NC: (scared) Jesus! That freaky!

(the film starts with Tokyo Movie Shinsha logo in the worldwide; for example, on the black background, at the center, there was a small TV tube with the letters "tms" (In an abstract cursive font) on it without any white words: "TOKYO MOVIE SHINSHA CO., LTD." below the tube. Then the bloody red credits appears...)

NC: (vo) It starts off with a logo without letters appears in white at the background; then followed by the bloody red text credits appear... starting as a jump-scare a bit as well? (as the red font credits appears as a big Ben tolls jump scare a bit) I think it might have to be comparing side by side to Little Nemo opening credits at a lighthearted music plays. (a shot of Little Nemo, an opening credits at the right bottom)

NC: Can you imagine if Melissa Manchester had to do comparing this opening credit plays?

(The shot the opening credits is shown in this movie, as well as the Little Nemo opening credit shown side by side)

Background Singer: (sings over the credit play side by side) What kind of dream will you dream, Little Nemo?

NC (vo): I mean, really, focus enough for this credits appear side by side, right?

NC: This is what TMS playing all around the credit appear side by side!

(the movie opens with a candle brights at the top left bottom, a la Disney's Sleeping Beauty when the camera zooms in at the book title)

NC (vo): The film opens, to be fair, what they stealing from a Disney classic (Sleeping Beauty) to be following the homage of the book title (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). (as a Disney title is shown in 1951 version.) They can be joke, either. (as the book opens with London in a sketched page) As the book opens with...

Narrator (Ken Barrie): Centuries ago there lived a young girl named Alice, who was in Westminster.

NC: Well, it's up to Ford Coppola starting with Dracula...

(a clip of Bram Stoker's Dracula is shown, four centuries later in 1898)

NC (vo): ...passing any four centuries ago in London.

Reinfield: I've done everything that you asked, [Master.] All the preparations are in order.

NC: Okay, you know... (a 1992 version character, Dracula is shown in the corner) Gary Oldman didn't.

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NC: Try it use a different title...

NC: (vo) (changed to "Alice" from "Něco z Alenky" title appears) Nope. Not this one. Try it, if your dare. (changed to "Alicja" title appears in 1982) No, you goddamn it. Try it appea-! (changed to "Alice" title appears in 1990) NO! Try the title appea-! (changed to a miniseries title "Alice" appears) GODDAMN IT! Try and use it appear! (changed to "Alice" in English title with Japanese language; back to the movie... a Japanese print version like this?) Oh, that's much better.

NC: I'd never noticed that title may be changes what EA (Electronic Arts) games got slasher this shit. (an image of American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns is shown in the left and right at the bottom)

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NC: (vo) When she playing outside with a girl, Alice, voiced by Susan Sheridan...a fitting choice, as she's a mix-up of cutey decent and kind of (a shot of The Black Cauldron with...) "Taran"-nator.

NC: But she actually kind of homage of a silent actor, (a shot of...) Viola Savoy, in my opinion, who is a bit too old for the part.

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NC: Which she is, his voice is like a (a shot of a character, Satsuki from My Neighbor Totoro) annoyance a bit of Michelson and (a shot of Hermione from Harry Potter) a heroine wizard.

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NC: And still, she is exactly comparing a Kathryn Beaumont approach. (a shot of a titular character in a 1951 Disney version in the corner)

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Alice (Susan Sheridan): Oh, sister, [don't tell them off]. It was my fault.

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Alice: I don't remember this part of the woods.

Lorina: It's a special place in the woods I found as a child.

NC: (as Alice) Probably I'm acting a special place where Red Riding Hood can do.

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Channel Awesome tagline - Fflewddur Fflam: (from The Black Cauldron): Great Belin!

(the credits roll)