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Calling All Pill-Poppers! Who's Your Alice?

With just north of a half-billion dollars tucked beneath its mad hat, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland continues to clown most iterations of Lewis Carroll’s famed narrative of sense and nonsense. But is it your favorite? We already listed our five favorite Alice iterations, and offered up a free copy of Jonathan Miller’s stripped-down, satirical […]
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With just north of a half-billion dollars tucked beneath its mad hat, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland continues to clown most iterations of Lewis Carroll's famed narrative of sense and nonsense. But is it your favorite?

We already listed our five favorite Alice iterations, and offered up a free copy of Jonathan Miller's stripped-down, satirical entry (at right) to one lucky commenter who shared theirs. The winner of that giveaway reached through the looking-glass to an esoteric, surreal Mickey Mouse short called "Through the Mirror."

"I remember that we had it on a VHS tape at home," wrote lnorthstar, "and as a child I thought it was sincerely creepy.... I think it was more of an experimental animation on [Disney's] part, and one of the more 'grotesque' that I've seen from Disney."

That short can be found as a bonus feature on the DVD of Disney's 1951 animated movie Alice in Wonderland, and also online.

Did Burton's 3-D Alice leap-frog any of your favorites? Or do you remain partial to Miller's cerebral iteration or the strange riffs from Jan Svankmayer, Tom Waits, Alan Moore and more? Trip down the rabbit hole to the comments section below and let us know your favorite Alice in Wonderland of all time.

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