The Other Side of the Mirror

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Although there are a lot of bad reviews on this movie I definitely love the refreshing scenes and theme. Gives it a realistic look from the original story line. People see it as dull and dark all the way through, but this is just how life seems to be sometimes. Its called the Darker Side of The Mirror, and it gives that! Alice's curiosity and boredom is very relatable. Her innocence from the foreign actions around her, I find amusing <3. If you like plays, this movie gives you that feel. It's shows you what plays want you to see. Don't think an Alice in Wonderland play with colors and magic, think of it as a a whole different story line.

Honestly I actually watched it all the way through and this is horrible... my former high school's drama class would do a better production of this. And there are drugs EVERYWHERE in this movie. Even where there doesn't need to be any drugs. It's just really bad acting. Saying this was strange would be an insult to the actual strangeness of the original Alice in Wonderland Novel.

Why doesn't IMDB have a negative number. Sharknado is at 0 in my books, but this is exponentially worse. Whoever thought that putting this out there to the public, needs a reality check. The scenery, the wardrobe, the hair styles, well pretty much everything is put together like a preschool church play. The is beyond low budget. They didn't even try. A silent film would have been better than the lack of intelligent dialogue. But, then you would still hear that driven to insanity continuing horrid soundtrack. This feels like the work of millenials expecting to get paid for participating or just showing up to work. Their is no love in this, no feeling in this, no sense of pride. You could have tried. I watched this as far as 3/4 and knew my brain was going to suffer from lack of intelligent input, but I kept on with the torture. Watching paint dry as a comparison cheapens the idea of watching paint dry. There's more value in watching worthless late night infomercials on public channels geared at the elderly with too much time on their hands. I don't even think the cheapest and worst designed camera should have been used to capture this mess. This is like a 20 year old design student turning in a drawing of a stick figure man of a three year old using a million dollar design program. I believe more thought went into the first word of my review than the entirety of this trash. A meth head in the final stages of life could have done better. That anyone gave this better than one star is beyond me. And don't say it was good for the fans. This was a travesty to anything remotely related to anything Alice or the fan base.

Wonderful fantasy film set at the turn of the 20th century in America. I absolutely loved the overall atmosphere of the movie as well as the spiritual elements that manifested themselves at times. The main actress Selena Tibert carries the film successfully throughout and the only mistake the director/producer makes in the movie is when other actors are in front of the camera instead of keeping the camera lens on her. I am a connoisseur of Alice in Wonderland films myself which are overwhelmingly centered on a European/English milieu. This film was so unique in being authentically American.

I'm willing, no matter how hard, to overlook absolutely inexcusable setting flaws when it's on the grounds of 100% unavoidable. (Example: The power lines, lines painted on the roads, modern street lights, the delivery box for The Oregonian.) Hell, I'll even overlook the costume fail of having everyone else in cloths that are circa 1990s when you've set the time to be 1905. From the image on the cover I am looking forward to seeing a movie about a girl traversing the darker side of... Anything but what I got. I was thinking like high school, popularity, peer pressure, hell I'd have even been happy with a pure goth live action version of the original. HOWEVER, what was delivered was a movie that spent more than half its time as a full color silent movie with the most GOD AWFUL back ground music. This stuff is worse than elevator music!! Whoever made this call needs to have their head examined. The ONLY brake from the racket was the, too often unintelligible, borderline psychotic monologues almost everyone EXCEPT Alice seemed to have. Splashed with the occasional clip of actual Alice lines, which were spoken with zero emotion, or feeling. It was like some cheap version of Sucker Punch, meets Matrix in an Alice in Wonderland costume. DID NOT WORK!! There was no flow, other than the progressive decay of Alice's dress. Only two actors where readily identifiable as their role. Knowing the real story of Alice did nothing to help a person navigate this horse's load of... AND while we're on the topic of horses!! WHAT THE HELL?! A random horse just walks up to the set, sniffs around the table, the actors just stop and watch it, then when it runs off they go back to the scene like nothing happened and SOME HOW, this blooper (which serves ZERO purpose) was left in!! NO!!! This movie was a complete waste of time, I feel sorry for EVERYONE involved in this movie. I'm from the Pacific North West myself, I know for a fact that this could have been done SSSOOOO much better. We have so many cool props and people willing to help just for the fun of it. There is no reason, why so many of these easily rectifiable errors were left in here. All that's being said, I get that this is supposed to be some type of drug awareness movie. IT FAILS! A. Alice in Wonderland should NEVER be used to convey that type of material as children could accidentally see it. Especially with that cover art. To a child it basically says, "Oh look Alice did drugs I can to!" While I'm a firm believer in 'hands on parenting' stuff like this makes that job even harder! B. You didn't convey anything about drugs other than almost everyone in this movie did them to some existent. Whether it's Alice taking am unknown pill from a complete stranger, or the old man shooting up in the barn, there are drugs EVERYWHERE in this movie. It's absurd. The only thing that saved this movie from a zero was the Edger Allen Poe guy who seemed to be playing three different roles. He successfully creeped me out as the cat, made me hate him as the white rabbit, and wished there was am under current of romance that could have held the story along but there was nothing.

I held on for over 20 minutes, giving it chance after painful chance, gritting my teeth and praying for it to redeem itself. Sadly, it didn't. My dogs could do better. There wasn't the slightest preparation or respect for the craft. This seemed more the product of a bunch of stoned teenagers who think they're really deep and enlightened than it did any real filmmakers. The acting was flippant, lazy, and just bad. (If you're gonna play a Catholic and draw attention to that fact, learn how to cross yourself without looking like a claymation character.) I could go on all day, and I barely followed her down the hole. For the love of all things Alice, don't do it. (Update: It's been a couple of years now, and I came across this title on Tubi. I instantly remembered just how gag-worthy the entire thing was and decided to come leave a review having completely forgotten I'd left one the first time. It's simply that revolting...for me to actually feel the need, years later, to warn the general public about 20 of the worst cinematic moments of my life. As a writer, I've only given a handful of one-star reviews, always looking for some redeeming qualities in the artistic work of others. I almost wonder if they went out of their way to make it as terrible as they possibly could; some crazy Yoko Ono performance art crapfest. Just don't...)

The film is an excellent metaphor for our present society: chaotic, confused and full of stimuli.

Regardless of it being low budget and it looking pretty cheap, still saw 'The Other Side of the Mirror' anyway being a fantasy and film fan, loving to death the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' for as long as can be remembered and being intrigued by the concept of turning a popular story on its head, giving it a darker edge. 'The Other Side of the Mirror' does nothing with its potential and is a terrible film in every way in its own right. That 'The Other Side of the Mirror' is a source material abortion is the least of its problems for a film not intended to be a straight up adaptation. It's just depressing to see a story with lots of colour and magic and deliciously eccentric characters stripped of all of that and looking and sounding amateurish in all senses on top of that. Definitely among the worst of my recent film viewings and quite far down on a personal least favourites list. Its problems are numerous and redeeming qualities are none and it is hard to know where to start with the criticism. 'The Other Side of the Mirror' looks really cheap for starters, with settings and colours that look more dreary and drab than vibrant and inviting. The effects look like they were constructed as an afterthought and like badly out of date video game quality. The photography and editing are haphazard at best, while the direction shows no flair, sense of drama or making the story make sense, it's barely there. One of its biggest problems is the music score, which has been panned for very good reason. One of the most annoying and tonally and placement inappropriate music scores there is, and one that is balanced so poorly with the dialogue and actor's voices. Being constantly intrusive, really unappealing to the ears and completely at odds with what's happening. It takes me a lot to feel nauseous, get a headache or feel my ears and teeth go on edge listening to a music score, the one here did all of those things and to intolerable effect. Script and story are also major debits. The script is incredibly childish and lacking in cohesion, when one can actually hear it, and never entertains, intrigues or provokes thought. The story has no sense of wonder or magic and takes an overly serious approach to the story while having cheesy and unintentionally funny moments galore. It's also very sluggishly paced, never comes to life and is rather aimless, almost plot-less in many places. Characters are completely stripped of anything to make them memorable, no distinct personality traits to set them apart or make one interested or engaged by them. One would be hard pressed to find a blander Alice. The acting all round is awful and barely rehearsed, nobody has enthusiasm or subtlety with many lumbering and others chewing the scenery to pieces that it gets exhausting. The character interaction is random and dull, like the cast were picked off the street and that the filming was where they had seen each for the first time. Summarising, dreadful in every way imaginable. 1/10 Bethany Cox