Good visuals bad story

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2011)

Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland is very appealing visually but this just can't make up for such a worn out bland story to go with it. Inst looks like he is trying hard at fantasy epoch with a cast of strange characters and the whole hodge-podge dosn't add up to a decent movie. I would have preferred to see a smaller but quirkier movie with this odd assortment of characters. Instead we get a Disneyesque story with rather flat characters. This could have been so much more. I thought the ending to be so hokey I laughed at it. I do like the idea of the major power players in wonderland are all women though.
grade: C-