I loved it as a kid, one of my favorite movies. Read the books as an adult and liked them way more than I thought I would. I went back and watched the movie again and had mixed feelings. The movie combines scenes and characters from both books and leaves some stuff out. This is not a problem in and of itself and actually I think it's a good way to adapt the books.
Watching it relatively soon after reading the books I found some scenes to be very well adapted and others not so much. For example the cheshire cat was done perfectly, but twiddle dee and twiddle dum, while being maybe the funniest part of both books, I thought were rather annoying in the movie, and their song was terrible. Overall though I still thought it was a very good movie and quite faithful to the books despite combing the two together into one story. I think the nonsensical nature of the story and world keeps the mixing the two books from being incoherent. Still one of the best disney animated movies with some great music. This Bill Evans take on the main theme is one of my favorite recordings:
Anyone seen any other adaptations they want to recommend? There's one with a Ravi Shankar score that looks interesting.
