A sorry mishmash of a film - Burton's worst?

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2010)

I am slightly in shock as to how disappointing this film turned out to be - with Tim Burton you expect to see something quirky, unusual, funny and memorable. That this film fails on all levels is a real disappointment. The actress who plays Alice may be a pretty girl but she is totally uncharismatic in this film, her character does not develop throughout the film, she is just as bland as at the beginning. The storyline is completely unengaging and to end with a banal fight scene is a real cop-out. Where was the surrealism?..people saying "oh we are mad we are" or words to that effect does not really do it justice. Depp's turn as the Mad Hatter is again nothing special and his dancing at the end is a cringingly bad scene, I was embarrassed.... At the end of the film the whole cinema quietly sloped away from a mess of a film that seemed to borrow from LOTR, Narnia, Avatar amongst others and became so formulaic as to be the magnolia of films...really very poor.