Alice In Wonderland

Watched With: My Snooqums @ Cathay EHub (06/03)
Snacks: None
Genre: Fantasy

"You're late for tea!"

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is now 19 years old but she still has a recurring dream where she follows a white rabbit to a mystical land.

And now that she is old enough, she is set to be married to the son of her late father's partner from his trading company.
Alice obviously feels that she is not ready and wishes she could just run away from it all.

Her chance comes when she follows a white rabbit and she falls into the rabbit hole.
This brings her to Wonderland.

It is here that she meets characters like The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), Tweedledee & Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), The Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), Absolum the Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) and The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) all of whom believe that she is the hero who can save Wonderland from the rule of the evil Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and her general Stayne (Crispin Glover).

Alice encounters many wonderful and scary creatures in Wonderland but her self-doubt is her biggest monster to overcome.

Can Alice save Wonderland and her friends?
Can Alice save herself?

This is an age-old story that I personally loved when I was a kid.
And I can safely say that this adaptation is definitely aimed for the adults. Tim Burton's dark vision is apparent as usual and this is fine.
But if you're expecting to have the same kind of tone as the original story/cartoons/movies of old then I fear you will be disappointed.
For this movie is really boring. Seriously.

And just for the record.
I think that Johnny Depp overdoes it in this one.
Let's face it. The Mad Hatter is.. well.. mad. No point trying to justify why he's mad. He's just The Mad Hatter. Period.

Let's stick to the original for the kids folks.

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