This isn't another X-rated potboiler but an adult movie with a certain charm. Rabbit and the others hopping about, and we get the sense that the people who made the movie were having fun (the producer is Bill Osco, who made "Flesh Gordon" both movies have been very successful at the box office). There are several more songs and a few casually done dance numbers, with Mr. And the Mad Hatter takes more than hat sizes. There are the usual rocks that talk when you sit on them, but they're not complaining. The evil Queen has very definite ideas about suitable punishment. Humpty Dumpty (who didn't make it into the Carroll or Disney versions) has taken more than a great fall. For starters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee turn out to be brother and sister. Rabbit turns up in response to the song, and leads Alice through the looking glass and into Wonderland, where things take place that no doubt have poor Lewis Carroll spinning in his grave. The song, to my surprise, was a pleasant one, appealingly performed: The days when soft-core porn was synonymous with el cheapo sleazo production values are apparently over. While he puts the make on her, she looks at the name sewn over the pocket of his work shirt and asks with earnest curiosity, "Why are you wearing a shirt with someone else's name?" We never do find out, but after Steve leaves, Alice pages through a copy of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and then sings a song about learning to be free. His name, as I recall, is Steve, which leads to one of the movie's more quietly amusing lines. We meet her first as a librarian, virginal and shy, turning down a date with the mechanic she's in love with because she's afraid he'll go too far.
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