Alice in BLUNDERland

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

Director – Tim Burton

Starring – Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and Alan Rickman

MPAA - Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar



The more movies I see made by Tim Burton the more convinced I am of his twisted brilliance. He is either seriously on acid or a film genius. That doesn’t mean that Alice in Wonderland was brilliant, but if it had been made by any other director the film would have been as lifeless and dull as its script.
Burton took a shoddy screenplay packed with bad dialogue and a plot more twisting and curving than any set piece and turned it into a visually entertaining and exciting trip. If anything this film will be great for wild and thrilling amusement park ride. I am wondering why the people in charge of Harry Potter didn’t snag Tim Burton for their films. Then at least they would have had visual interest.



And that was all Alice in Wonderland was, a visual experience. Its convoluted plot that jumped around more times that Hulk did in his first disastrous film, is saved only by the mastermind Tim Burton. Alice is 20 and has been plagued by dreams of Wonderland since she was a little girl; I am guessing that was what the original animated Disney Film is supposed to be. So we pick up with this sequel where Alice returns to Wonderland to help the devastated fantasy land and save them from the clutches of The Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). She is aided by a muttering mad hatter, who is clearly off his rocker...in a nice , but ever so creepy, way. Johnny Depp plays his part well, though at anytime we expect him to rip off his CGI eyes and say, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow love, savvy?"

In this adventure we get a feeling of The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe meets Sleepy Hallow, although this film lacks the writing that Narnia had, and therefore makes us completely u interested in the characters. Yes there were plenty of little things to laugh about, but we didn’t really like Alice or care about her predicament, in fact we didn’t really care about anyone in the film, there was just no emotional connection to them.



Alice in Wonderland is probably a 6.5 out of 10. Yes I enjoyed the brilliant colors and the interesting cinematography. It was a visual gem. There were also funny moments and a little bit of action, and the little quirky characters were fun. But there was very little writing and a disjointed plot that really kept the film from being too engaging. It was interesting, but not a film of any lasting value.

Sex/Nudity - 2 out of 10– A girl grows tall and small and her clothes don’t change with her. One scene she stands behind a bush and she is bare from the shoulders up. There is also a little cleavage. A married man is caught kissing another woman. A man makes advances on a young woman.

Violence/Gore – The whole film is kind of creepy. There are a lot of scary images. One animal gets its eye speared out by a mouse, then gets the eye back later. A dragon gets its tounge cut off and later its head, it rolls around and bounces a lot, The head is left bleeding on the ground. A girl is cut on the arm by a monster; the cut gets infected and looks pretty nasty later on. There is a most full of decapitated heads; they look like porcelain mannequin’s heads. A lady makes potions from chopped up fingers. In other wards it is a fairly grisly picture and should have been PG-13 because of fantasy violence and disturbing images.

Profanity – 1 out of 10 – There is some name calling.