Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is worth seeing, but keep expectations low. Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen was the highlight. The graphics, particularly in 3D, were a great bonus. The writing and plot weren’t especially terrific; I mean, the plot made way more sense than the books, but the books were NONsense so it wasn’t exactly faithful in that regard.
Johnny Depp was entertaining but not memorable as he was in Pirates. I liked the choice of voices for the caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat (Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry) but their parts and performances weren’t really that interesting.
Anyway, the climax was fun to watch in spite of the fact that it made way too much sense and was essentially just like the end of every other lets-go-to-a-magical-world-and-put-power-in-the-hands-of-the-good-witch-instead-of-the-bad-witch kid’s movie. I especially liked that the Jabberwocky was brought to life and looked very much like the original drawing from the book.
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