Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Yesterday we went and saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D, yeah 3D…oooh, ahhhh. Anyway, I didn’t really want to see this all that much, but I got dragged into seeing it. The first 45 mins of the movie was a snooze fest, I dosed off like 4 or 5 times. Once the story picked up I stopped catching flies. The visuals were pretty cool; all of the characters were very much “larger than life”. The costumes were pretty nice, especially the Mad Hatter costume, he reminded me of a hobo clown transvestite.

Johnny Depp played a great Mad Hatter physically, but this was not one of his better acting roles. Anne Hathaway played the White Queen and she had some really strange mannerisms that started to bug me, she kind of reminded me of when Marilyn Manson did “the Beautiful People” live on the MTV movie awards back in 1998. It was just odd and disturbing (Hathaway and Manson). The CGI characters were really cool i.e. the Cheshire cat, the Caterpillar, Etc. The 3D itself was really well done and created some very nice backdrops.

Overall this movie was not that great. I expected it to be a lot darker than it actually ended up. I think if this is what we have to look forward to with Depp and Burton teaming up in the future, they should retire. I would not rush out and see this, wait until it's on DVD and you're super bored and if their are no more DVD's of Cobra to rent.