Awful Remake of a Great Classic

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2010)

I am a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan.I have been waiting for this movie to come out since I 1st saw the previews. It was made by Tim Burton so of course it was going to be awesome right? WRONG! I will say the very beginning was not too bad. It seemed like everything was going fine and it was sticking to the original story. Once she opened the door to wonderland after growing and shrinking it went down-hill.
The effects were way too over done to the point where wonderland was not even believable. I really did not like how Tim Burton added so many new characters to it too. The white queen, the jabberwocky, the talking dog, etc Where was Dinah? (Alice's pet cat) from the beginning? The very merry un-birthday song? The singing flowers? (They only showed one for like a split second), Alice growing so big her arms and legs stick out of the white rabbits house? Bill and the Dodo bird? Tweedledee and Tweedledum telling their story of the little oyster's? "The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things.." As a big fan I just feel like these were important and memorable points to the story that makes us love it so much.
The cast was pretty impressive I must say. Only thing was that Johnny Depp's make up was a little fake looking in the tea party scene because they painted his face white but stopped at his neck so it just looked too fake. Also when the red queen's friends had their noses and ears falling off as if they were really just prostetics was a horrible idea I did not understand that. Though the cast was well and so was the acting, I felt like the white queen was not necessary and to honest could she put her hands down for just a min?! I almost feel like since Tim Burton put Depp in the movie that he had to expand and change the story up to give him a longer role because of course Johnny Depp couldn't be in this for just a few minuets like the original mad hatter was in the story. Honestly the mad hatter was not a huge or important character.
I could go on and on about more but these are the main things I could not stand. This is the 2nd film Tim Burton had re-made and turned it into trash. I actually love Tim Burton and all of his moves from the 80's and 90's but now he is loosing his touch and I feel like he just giving into the modern cgi crap that everyone does nowadays. He was a unique director but I just cant connect with his films anymore its a shame. Don't get me wrong I know he probably wanted to add a little newness to it but it just didn't work at all. If he would of just stuck to the original storyline it could of made up for the crappy cgi effects.