Alice Helps the Romance

⭐ Featured Review

"A very strong Alice cartoon as the movie concentrates on Julius, with Alice relegated to a small but key role. Julius goes courting, but another suitor is favored, so he decides to commit suicide -- just to give you an idea of how standards about what is appropriate for kiddie cartoons have changed in eighty years -- and consistently fails. The gags are well timed and many seem to be lifted from Harold Lloyd comedies -- Harold also had a propensity for trying to kill himself in his days in short subjects. Although none of the Alice in Movieland shorts are world beaters, some are very pleasant..."