Alice, now all grown up, must face the choices of an adult, but when pressured by her family and friends, she struggles with what is the right decision for her. While trying to wrap her head around all that is happening in her life she is again distracted by the white rabbit who once more leads her back down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland.
Ummmm. Yeah so this wasn’t as dark or as creepy as I expected a Tim Burton flick to be, nor was it outlandish enough to be fun or new. It was like The Never Ending Story meets The Chronicles of Narnia. I don’t really know how to explain it, other than it seemed as though they were trying to make Alice in Wonderland appealing to 8 to 13 year old boys. There are a lot of battle scenes, very little wonder, and I get that if you are going to have Johnny Depp in your movie you use him as much as possible – having said that, let’s take note that the Mad Hatter is a very minor character that is suddenly center stage.
Over all, the movie itself is odd, and not odd in a good way. The fun thing about the story and the cartoon version of Alice in Wonderland is that it feels very much like a dream. It is random and abstract. Things appear out of no where and the sense of fear comes from not knowing what is next. This movie never really captures that feeling and tries way too hard to have— meaning.
Neither imaginative nor dark enough to really make the trip back to Wonderland worth while.
** Rentable
Rated PG (for violence I suppose)
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I don't think I've ever seen the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. I mentioned this to my husband and he thought that was strange. We recently got a free trial for net flix and decided to get it. While looking for it on Net flix he found one with Sammy Davis Jr., Scott Baio, and Ringo Star and another with Whoopie Goldberg. Have you seen any of these?
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