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Fortunately, however, most of the puppets prove more authentic than the human beings. In appearance and style, as well as in the amount of dialogue they salvage intact from the original, they are notably more faithful than the Disney creatures. Bunin's skillful technique makes the figures seem almost as flexible as an animated cartoon and his trick photography is fully up to Alice's magical feats.
The picture's most disconcerting drawback is Alice herself, whose age the book gives as seven. The blonde, grownup good looks of Actress Marsh, 16 when the film was made, suggest that a casting director got Lewis Carroll mixed up with Earl.