INSTEAD of Wonderland, it’s Underland. Instead of Alice as a bored but clever child, we get Alice as a 19-year-old rebel and warrior, dispatching the monstrous Jabberwocky with a magic sword.

In some ways, Disney's animated "Alice in Wonderland" (released 65 years ago this week, on July 26, 1951) was as far behind schedule as its White Rabbit.The film flopped on its initial release and ...