Rating of
1.5/4
Waste
Nerva - wrote on 04/14/10
This follows suit in a new trend I'm noticing with large budget movies now, great special effects... Horrible horrible story. The story was so cliche and boring, you'd think they would have tried to improve on the alice in wonderland story but instead they took out all of the interesting parts gave Johnny Depp a hat and said fuck it, roll. The actress playing Alice (Mia I'm guessing) was horrible, completely horrible. She couldn't act her way into a paper bag let alone out of it. Anne Hathaway it really pains me to say it because I do love her in almost everything I've ever seen of hers but she was dreadful. It was obvious that she was hamming it up in her 'queen' role and that the intention was to seem cliche but really it just got annoying after awhile and was cheesy from the start. The only good thing about the movie was Helena Bonham Carter, and while yes she might get most of her acting roles from her husband putting her in his movies she's what ends up saving most of his movies now a days, Tim Burton isn't what he used to be. The dark and drab is now overly cgi and colorful and frankly with the amount of money they spent on this I thought they could have done much much better with everything. Carter looked interesting but his attempt to make every character look bizzare just looked to me like they were wearing too much makeup, the mad hatter resembled more of a drag queen on acid than anything else, Tweedle dumb and dee were both good as were the animal characters... Story itself was just horrible, made no sense and was borring at that something about a dragon and a 40 second fight scene who knows I was half asleep by then they would have just been much better off if they told the actual alice in wonderland story as opposed to hiring whatever trained monkey 'wrote' this one.
