History YMMV / AliceinWonderland

* CantUnhearIt:

** Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat.

** 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.

** Verna Felton voices a character who prefers things to be red. In her next [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Disney film]], she also plays a character who wears red and gets very particular about a dress being pink. And the two characters couldn't be more opposites; the Queen of Hearts is a villain with a HairTriggerTemper, Flora is a heroic fairy.

* OneSceneWonder: The doorknob has very little screen time but is considered one of the more memorable characters. Doubly impressive since he doesn't exist in either of the books.

** 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.
** Kathryn Beaumont voices Wendy in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' after this film - where she again wants to run away to another world and have adventures. And when she gets there she finds herself the OnlySaneMan yet again. In both films she also has a scene where a group of rude females splash water on her - flowers in ''Alice'', mermaids in ''Peter Pan''.

** This was actually the second time Sterling Holloway appeared in an adaptation of ''Wonderland'', as he was the Frog Footman in the 1933 live action film.

** People telling the Queen to shut her trap seems to be pretty popular.

* ValuesResonance: Alice is a very spirited and active young girl, much more than the Disney princesses of the time. She doesn’t put up with the Wonderlanders’ nonsense and is constantly searching for a way out. Interestingly, this may have been why a lot of people (including Walt Disney himself) didn’t like her in 1951, saying she had “no heart”.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: When the Queen of Hearts first announces the card painters to be beheaded, it's quite intense... then she immediately gains a [[DissonantSerenity cheerful smiling expression]] on her face, and as the painters are dragged off to be executed, the other cards begin to sing an [[SoundtrackDissonance upbeat reprise]] of "Painting the Roses Red" called "[[LyricalDissonance They're Going to Lose Their Heads]]", which ends up making the scene darkly hilarious.

* {{Moe}}: Alice is a very polite, curious little girl with an adorable appearance in a young EnglishRose sort of way..

* {{Moe}}: Alice. She's a very polite, curious little girl with an adorable appearance in a young EnglishRose sort of way..

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. People at least seem to be aware there is a book, but many assume the elements of the film are from the book. 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 likewise is thought of as a {{Troll}} or aloof thanks to this film making him an AdaptationalJerkass - whereas in the book he was one of Alice's only friends. It's sometimes forgotten that Alice was a bit younger in the books, around eight or nine, but the Disney version appears to be portraying her as the same age as her actress Kathryn Beaumont (who was twelve).

** Since the story AllJustADream, Alice's personality is a little different in Wonderland to the real world. In the real world she daydreams and longs for nonsense. In Wonderland she is the OnlySaneMan. So perhaps the dream is Alice imagining herself as a sensible person SurroundedByIdiots as a way of processing how out of place she feels in the real world.

** Walt Disney attributed the movie's failure to people being unable to sympathise with Alice in the way they could with Snow White. Nowadays Snow White is considered a rather bland character, who is among the least popular Disney Princesses (not that she's hated; just OvershadowedByAwesome) - whereas Alice's popularity has grown over the years. Kathryn Beaumont is actually considered one of the best and most memorable Alices in film.

* 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. The Walrus and the Carpenter also appear among the group of characters chasing Alice in the final shot before Alice wakes up.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. People at least seem to be aware there is a book, but many assume the elements of the film are from the book. 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 likewise is thought of as a {{Troll}} or aloof thanks to this film making him an AdaptationalJerkass - whereas in the book he was one of Alice's only friends.

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

* 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. In fact ''Alice'' was one of the first Disney films released to home video.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The UnusedSong for the Cheshire Cat, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKkMH_7nBw "I'm Odd"]], performed with gusto by Creator/JimCummings.

** Katherine Beaumont voices Wendy in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' after this film - where she again wants to run away to another world and have adventures. And when she gets there she finds herself the OnlySaneMan yet again. In both films she also has a scene where a group of rude females splash water on her - flowers in ''Alice'', mermaids in ''Peter Pan''.

** Was the Carpenter's rage caused by the Walrus eating the oysters, or by the fact that he didn't save any for him?

* ValuesResonance: Alice is a very spirited and active young girl, much more than the Disney princesses of the time. She doesn’t put up with the Wonderlanders’ nonsense and is constantly searching for a way out. Interestingly, this may have been why a lot of people (including Walt Disney himself) didn’t like her in 1951, saying she had “no heart”.

!![[Disney/AliceInWonderland The 1951 Disney Classic]]:

** Alice tends to be shipped with Disney/PeterPan, partly due to the fact that Alice and Wendy Darling have the same voice actress.

** She's occasionally also paired with Disney/{{Pinocchio}}.

** Katherine Beaumont voices Wendy in ''Disney/PeterPan'' after this film - where she again wants to run away to another world and have adventures. And when she gets there she finds herself the OnlySaneMan yet again. In both films she also has a scene where a group of rude females splash water on her - flowers in ''Alice'', mermaids in ''Peter Pan''.
** 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.

** Alice tends to be shipped with Disney/PeterPan, 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]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The UnusedSong for the Cheshire Cat, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKkMH_7nBw "I'm Odd"]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not as common as with other Disney films. People at least seem to be aware there is a book, but many assume the elements of the film are from the book. 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, although he's more "Creepy Cute". Alice's reaction when he first shows up implies that she thinks this too.

* 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]].

* EarWorm: Pretty much every song, but especially those you hear at the Mad Tea Party.
** "A very merry unbirthday to you!" "Who, me?" "Yeah, you!" "Oh, me!"
** "I'm late! I'm late!"
** "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 ''reeeeeeeed!'' We're painting the roses red!"
** The CutSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pX1-zXXTQ "Dream Caravan"]] is definitely this. "Zoom golly golly golly zoom golly golly..."
** "How do you do and shake hands, shake hands, shake hands..."
** The Cheshire Cat's CutSong, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKkMH_7nBw I'm Odd]], is ''incredibly'' catchy.