Anime Movie Review: Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World

Synopsis: The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with bishounen characters and added romance. A parody of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormat-like.

In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet darkly cynical. Instead of the traditional story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place call Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, a handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight, and more… What should Alice do in such a world!?

Review: Um.. Where to begin other than I made it about 30 mins into the movie before I decided to drop it. There was no plot. The scenes looked like someone in editing decided to add cool effects, cool pictures, and random parts they animated together. It literally jumps from a scene with her sister to a scene with her running away with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb. There's never context (in the part with her sister, she tells her “you wanna play a board game…A card game? I’ll go fetch something” As Alice tells her AFTER SHE RUNS AWAY “No I don’t want to play any games”) What seems to be the first scene is like 25 mins in. It is definitely a mess. Looks like the scenes got misplaced (I was questioning if I was even watching the correct thing). The characters were designed really well & voice cast well. Tbh I think this would do good as an Anime much better compared to the movie, maybe oneday someone/some company will revisit this.

♦️Rating: 3/10♦️