Filed under: Movies | Tags: alice, alice in wonderland, jonny depp, tim burton
Genre: Fantasy / Adaptation
Release Date: March 5, 2010
” Too ordinary to be considered as Burton’s”
Alice or “The Alice” is one of the movie I’ve been waiting so bad to see. Tim Burton’s remake was actually a sequel of the famous novel of the same title. Alice now a nineteen year old women returns to Underland (Wonderland – Maybe Alice heard it wrong the first time she’s there) to be reunited with her old friends, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Ceshire Cat, Dormouse, White Rabbit, and The Mad Hatter.
Burton is no exception one of the great visual director there is, his visualization of the Wonderland wand the people who resides in here are more parallel to Caroll’s novel – Bruton-ized – Dark gloomy dead branches, dreadful soil gothic costumes, vibrant colored sky.
Story wise Burton and his writers provided a well reasoning why Alice is not really a child’s tale like Disney was trying to instill in our minds in their animated version of the film. More exact is that character’s are there to torture Alice in such a duty she must take – in a weirder and more unusual way. Everything was a well interpretation made by the well-known director until it hits the bottom of its rabbit hole.
We’ve seen so much war but never did we see a war like a chess game – but still in a million more way to end it; why does it have to be a sword fighting? Aren’t we over indulge with Lord of the Ring, the Golden Compass, and Narnia? Burton give us answer. We don’t really know if the writers ran out of idea, characters were not enriched enough, or did they just run out of sugar in their minds but still a good interpretation and story in the beginning just dissolves into a medieval warfare against cards and chess pieces, and slaying a monstrous over-sized monster. The story have a well imagined beginning and middle but nothing so tedious in an ending. (3/5)
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