Go see Alice when she's 80 feet tall (Imax all the way)!

Rating: 9/10 (17 March 2010)

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010) ***1/2 Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas (voices of: Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Paul Whitehouse, Timothy Spall, Michael Gough, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Lee) Tim Burton's masterful endeavor in re-creating Lewis Carroll's tales of Alice ("Wonderland" & "Looking Glass") is in full bloom of crazy and surreal in this re-imagining of the titular lass now a wan 19 year old uncertain of her future (Wasikowska in full muse mode) whose return to Wonderland has her reluctantly taking the cause to fight off the evil Red Queen (Bonham Carter, a hoot with a full-swollen CGI'd noggin' to boot!) and her weapon of destruction – the Jabberwocky. Wonderfully cast particularly Depp as The Mad Hatter (getting his ya-yas out in nightmare clown make-up that would give The Joker a run for his madness!) and thrilling 3D technology (really filmed in 2D and post-production for 3D but why cripe?); too much of a good thing is the visual eye-candy production design by Robert Stromberg and Burton's aide-de-camp maestro Danny Elfman. By all means see this in IMAX; how else can you enjoy Alice when she's ten feet (well 80 feet on screen)tall!