Alice in Wonderland has been my favorite movie for as long as I can remember -- which is odd, because I can honestly admit that there are better films out there. Nonetheless, that movie can cheer me up when I'm sad or help me calm down when I'm angry. It helps me out with my emotions like no other movie does.
The comedy and random insanity of the plot are fantastic, and even if you're not accustomed or even prone to like movies with psychadelic plotlines, you have to admire the childish brilliance of Alice. One where a girl shrinks and grows repeatedly, a talking mad cat disappears repeatedly and causes mischeif, and with an insane Queen that beheads anyone she does not like or who angers here.
There is something extremely quick-witted about the dialogue in the movie, which of course one has to attribute to the brilliance of Lewis Carroll. Though the Disney version of the film, which is the one I'm critiqueing, was only loosely based off a combination of both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, much of the dialogue and all of the characters come at some point from the book, which is also fantastic. The thing that I can say changed the most in the movie is Alice herself, which I must say is the only character I am not completely fond of in the movie.
Alice is a hopelessly whiny and drivelling little girl, who, after getting what she asked for, insists on finding fault in "the world of her own". This, I think, is Disney's only flaw. Carroll never meant for Alice to have a greater moral meaning, and, being Walt, Disney tried to fit one in where one never should have been.
I must say that my favorite character is the Cheshire Cat. And I will leave you with my favorite dialogue from the movie.
"Oh, by the way, if you'd really like to know...he went that way."
"Who did?"
"The white rabbit."
"He did?!"
"He did what?"
"Go that way!"
"Who did?"
"The white rabbit!"
"...What rabbit?"
The chesire cat is amazing. "Well, it all depends on where you want to go."
"It doesn't really matter where I go."
"Then it doesn't matter which way you take." That can be seen as philisophical, or an annoying cat giving a poor kid a hard time. But you're right about Alice. She asks for a world where nothing ever makes any sense, and she gets it.