History YMMV / AliceinWonderland

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. Many people don't distinguish between ''Alice in Wonderland'' and ''Through the Looking Glass'' (or simply don't know that they're two separate books), and the film's mingling of the two exacerbates this. This is especially the case with the Queen of Hearts - whose HairTriggerTemper comes from the Duchess, but is assumed to be one of her key character traits.

** The Cheshire Cat is another of the more remembered characters for his sheer weirdness (even by Wonderland's standards). It's quite surprising since he only appears in four scenes.

*** The Glasses Birds are pretty much {{Adorkable}} personified (as birds).

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. Many people don't distinguish between "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" (or simply don't know), and the film's mingling of the two exacerbates this. Especially with the Queen of Hearts - whose HairTriggerTemper comes from the Duchess but is assumed to be one of her key character traits.

** There are some parts of Kathryn Beaumont's performance that suggests Alice is really NotSoDifferent from the residents of Wonderland. In fact in the real world she seems to irritate her sister with her daydreaming. So in Wonderland it might be that Alice secretly likes being able to take the moral high ground and she slips up through moments like the unbirthday celebration.

* CantUnHearIt:

* CriticalBacklash: Critics slammed this movie when it came out, attacking Walt for "Americanizing a great work of British literature" and the man himself viewed it as a disappointment. In the 60s it [[WatchItStoned found its audience among stoners]].
* CrossoverShip: Alice tends to be shipped with Disney/PeterPan. Or maybe Disney/{{Pinocchio}}. The Peter Pan ship is partly due to the fact that Alice and Wendy Darling have the same voice actress. Alice also gets her share of shipping with [[LesYay Wendy herself]].

** The Mad Hatter is only one of three characters in the un-birthday sequence but is far more remembered than the March Hare or the Doormouse. At the parks he's usually with Alice.

* FanPreferredCouple: Alice and the Mad Hatter, though they give him more of the appearance of his Disney world cosplay.

** Verna Felton voices a character who prefers things to be red. In her next [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Disney film]] she also plays a character who wears red and gets very particular about a dress being pink.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the time the story of Alice was defined visually by the John Tenniell illustrations from the original book. Disney choosing to go for the modernist art style of Mary Blair was a shocking change at the time - and was one of many aspects that got accused of 'Americanization'. After decades of ''Alice'' adaptations that use surreal or bizarre imagery, this might be lost on modern viewers.

** The animals in the Tulgey Wood. Especially all the strange looking birds. Who's a cute widdle living birdcage?
** The Glasses Birds especially. They're pretty much {{Adorkable}} personified (as birds).

** The Cheshire Cat is another of the more remembered characters for his sheer weirdness (even by Wonderland's standards). It's quite surprising since he only appears in three scenes.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: You must admit, every frame in Wonderland, from the rabbit hole down to the Queen's garden is a work of art in itself. For that, you can partly thank Mary Blair, who came up with the concept art for the film and set the tone. [[https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2014/08/20/mary-blair-the-movies-the-concept-art-of-alice-in-wonderland/ Take a look.]]

* {{Moe}}: Alice. She's a very polite, curious little girl with an adorable appearance in a young EnglishRose sort of way.
* MoralEventHorizon: The Cheshire Cat needed only ''one line'' to prove that he has crossed it: "Well, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant!".

* AwesomeArt: You must admit, every frame in Wonderland, from the rabbit hole down to the Queen's garden is a work of art in itself. For that, you can partly thank Mary Blair, who came up with the concept art for the film and set the tone. [https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2014/08/20/mary-blair-the-movies-the-concept-art-of-alice-in-wonderland/ Take a look.]

* AwesomeArt: You must admit, every frame in Wonderland, from the rabbit hole down to the Queen's garden is a work of art in itself. For that, you can partly thank Mary Blair, who came up with the concept art for the film and set the tone.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Brief, but strange even for this movie, during the ending chase, Alice suddenly finds herself in a second Caucus race, together with the queen (who seems oddly happy about it), the king, the cards, Tweedle-Dee and Twiddle-Dum and, most bizarrely, both the Walrus and the Carpenter (who were only characters in Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum's story) plus a group of oysters (ditto, plus the fact that they were supposed to have been ''eaten'' by the Walrus). The moment Alice gets out of the nonsensical race, the chase continues.

* CantUnhearIt:

* CriticalBacklash: Critics slammed this movie when it came out, attacking Walt for "Americanizing a great work of British literature" and the man himself viewed it as a disappointment. In the 60s it found its audience among stoners.

* BigLippedAligatorMoment: Brief, but strange even for this movie, during the ending chase, Alice suddenly finds herself in a second Caucus race, together with the queen (who seems oddly happy about it), the king, the cards, Tweedle-Dee and Twiddle-Dum and, most bizarrely, both the Walrus and the Carpenter (who were only characters in Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum's story) plus a group of oysters (ditto, plus the fact that they were supposed to have been ''eaten'' by the Walrus). The moment Alice gets out of the nonsensical race, the chase continues.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Were the Mad Hatter and March Hare "fixing" the Rabbit's watch as a [[KickTheDog cruel practical joke]], or were they genuinely trying to help in their own backward way?

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. Many people don't distinguish between "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" (or simply don't know), and the film's mingling of the two exacerbates this.

* CrossoverShip: Alice tends to be shipped with Disney/PeterPan. Or maybe Disney/{{Pinocchio}}.
** The Peter Pan ship is partly due to the fact that Alice and Wendy Darling have the same voice actress.
** Alice also gets her share of shipping with [[LesYay Wendy herself]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Mad Hatter; the Cheshire Cat.

* HilariousInHindsight: There's a mushroom whose one side makes you grow bigger and the other side makes you shrink. [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super and Poison Mushroom]] much? This was actually very much intentional, since the Mushrooms of the ''Mario'' series were in fact inspired by this movie, as per WordOfGod.
* MemeticMutation: People telling the Queen to shut her trap seems to be pretty popular.

* VindicatedByHistory: The film opened to a lukewarm box office and mostly hostile reviews in 1951. Walt himself voiced CreatorBacklash against the film and famously declared that it had failed because "Alice lacked heart" (it's somewhat unclear whether by "Alice" he meant the film or the character). In the decades since, it has become better regarded by both critics and general audiences and is now thought as something of a minor classic.

* HilariousInHindsight: There's a mushroom whose one side makes you grow bigger and the other side makes you shrink. [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super and Poison Mushroom]] much?

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Perhaps even more than the books. (And the film was famously popular with stoners and acid droppers during TheSixties.)

** "Forward backward inward outward come and join the chase! Nothing could be dryer than a jolly Caucus Race!"
** "Painting the roses red! We're painting the roses red! We dare not stop, Or waste a drop, So let the paint be spread! We're painting the roses red! We're painting the roses red!"

* HilariousInHindsight: There's a mushroom whose one side makes you grow bigger and the other side makes you shrink. [[Franchise/SuperMario Power- and poison mushroom]] much?

* WhatAnIdiot: While the Bird in the Tree mistaking Alice for a serpent made some sense in the book, as only Alice's neck grew longer and she could only see Alice's head and neck, this film makes her look like even more of an idiot.

* TheWoobie: Alice has her moments, especially in the [[TearJerker "Very Good Advice"]] sequence. The White Rabbit also qualifies, due to the fact that he's seemingly the only Wonderlander with [[OnlySaneMan the blessing of sanity]] and despite this (or indeed, ''because'' of this) [[ButtMonkey constantly gets the short end of the stick]].

* TheWoobie: Alice has her moments, especially in the [[TearJerker "Very Good Advice"]] sequence. The White Rabbit also qualifies, due to the fact that he's seemingly the only Wonderlander with [[OnlySaneMan the blessing of sanity]] and despite this (or indeed, ''because'' of this) [[ButtMonkey constantly gets the short end of the stick]].

!![[VideoGame/AliceInWonderland The 2010 game]]:
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The game proved a disappointment to many fans of the movie.
** The console version got average reviews; the DS version, however, got a few fans and is considered fairly good.
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* TearJerker: "Very Good Advice", which is pretty much "HeroicSelfDeprecation: The Song". Also an in-universe example, as the song ends up having all the UglyCute birds in the Tulgey Wood start crying with sympathy while she sings.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Cheshire Cat needed only one line to prove that he has ''crossed it'': "Well, she simply said you're a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant!".

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Were the Mad Hatter and March Hare "fixing" the Rabbit's watch as a [[KickTheDog cruel practical joke]], or because they were genuinely trying to help in their own, messed up way?

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japan Loves Alice in Wonderland]]: Thanks to the movie's bizarre nature and Alice's cuteness.