I've always been a really big Tim Burton fan and have been super pumped for this film ever since I heard about it last summer. The story of Alice in Wonderland is already kind of trippy and bizarre to start with, so I figured that Burton would take it to a whole new level when he got his hands on it. Well, I think I might have had too high of expectations for this flick because it was just "pretty good."For some reason I thought it was going to be the best movie ever, but Burton seemed to of tuned down his style, probably because he had Disney over his shoulder the whole time. BUT, Alice in Wonderland was still a good movie and I definitely want to see it again. Visually it was very entertaining (especially in 3D), the acting was pretty good, and the legendary Danny Elfman delivered a great score.
All of the Underworld characters were great, the Cheshire Cat probably being my favorite. Visual effects were great as well, and this reinvented Underland is exciting, beautiful, and dark all at the same time. I guess the only real downfall in this movie was the story. The plot seemed pretty bland in general and I felt like there could have been more time with character development.
4 out of 5
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I am inclined to agree with much of this, though of course I have a somewhat different take on it. I found the plotline to be exceedingly unoriginal, taken pretty much completely from Jabberwocky*, and the character selection to be rather irritatingly different from past incarnations of the story. The White Queen and the Knave, especially, annoyed me, since they really had no place in the story at all. But I think what disappointed me most is that not only was the story rotten but the movie as a whole wasn't even as much of a drug-trip-on-a-screen as the original was, much less one worthy of Tim Burton's name. It just seemed... flat.
ReplyDelete*Pet peeve: calling the Jabberwock "the Jabberwocky." That's the name of the poem, not the creature.
This movie looks very interesting indeed. I am sure that the wonderful people at Disney have done a great job and I look forward to seeing this movie.
ReplyDeleteI've never really been a fan of Burton, and I somewhat enjoyed this picture. I guess that would be due to the, as you said, tuning down of the Burton style. It wasn't all that great, though. I agree with Jacob in that the Knave and white queen (I would go so far as to even say the red queen) seemed superfluous.
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