i have see several stage and film adaptation of alice in wonderland and this one have to take the cake a the absolute bad . my family buy the dvd unsuspectingly and couldn not even make it through the first half . i later go back and force myself to watch the whole thing ( it have be a christmas gift to me ) and be just appal . the only redeeming factor ( and it hardly redeem enough to save the whole show ) be mark lin baker play the mock turtle with a yiddish accent . it one of the few moment in the piece that have some real charm and can be take somewhat seriously . other than that and the song be half song and the melody be half melody and even meryl streep can not make this direction look good .