Retail Price: $29.95

Reviewed by:
Ian Jane on December 11, 2007.

Playboy Playmate Kristine DeBell plays Alice, an attractive but rather stern young woman who spends her days working in the library and fending off advances from her sex-hungry boyfriend. Alice just won’t give in to him, and he’s getting a bit frustrated. After he takes off, she sings to herself and laments growing up too fast. She yearns to have her childhood back and before you know it, a white rabbit (Larry Gelman) shows up and leads her through the looking glass into Wonderland. 

She’s confused when she arrives but it doesn’t take her long to get into the swing of things. She meets up with a couple of promiscuous animals, both male and female, who help her to dry off. Her search for the white rabbit leads her to the Mad Hatter’s (Alan Novak) tea party where she finds out that the number on his hat doesn’t represent his hat size, rather the size of his ‘thingamajig’ which he then gives her permission to play with and eventually kiss. Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and can’t get it up, so Alice helps him out using her newfound talent and soon enough she’s rolling around in the grass with Tweedle-Dee (Bree Anthony) and Tweedle-Dum (Tony Richards) before meeting up with the Red Queen and her court. 

The film follows Lewis Carroll’s story closer than you’d probably expect an adult film to, and the result is an enjoyable and quirky sex comedy complete with musical numbers, colorful and outlandish costumes, and goofy sets. Shot to cash in on the success of producer Bill Osco’s earlier Flesh Gordan, the adult version of Alice In Wonderland contains an interesting cast of notable adult film performers but the star of the show is definitely DeBell who does a fine job with not only the doe-eyed naivety that the part requires but also with the sexier side of things, her Playboy experience likely coming in handy here. 

Subversive has included both the softcore and hardcore versions of the film and your appreciation of said cuts will depend completely on what you’re looking for. If you want a XXX movie, then obviously the hardcore version is going to be your preferred cut and if you’re looking for a sex comedy, you’ll want to watch the softcore edit and will likely find the hardcore footage (some of which is very obviously DeBell in action, some of which appears to be insert material) distracting and unnecessary. Either way, the picture is quite enjoyable. It’s playful, creative, and shot with a trained eye to ensure that it looks better than most adult productions past or present. It’s a very colorful and quirky production made all the more odd by the musical numbers (some of which are surprisingly well done and all of which are quite humorous).

A genuinely enjoyable and playfully sexy adult fairy tale, Subversive’s release of Alice In Wonderland is a whole lot of fun and it’s nice to see both versions of the picture preserved on this release. It’s a shame that the soundtrack couldn’t be included but the featurette is interesting and the film looks and sounds pretty decent considering its age, budget and origins. 

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Kristine DeBelle, Terri Hall, Larry Gelman, Alan Novak, Bree Anthony