Very disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2010)

Many years after Alice's first adventure in underland, a now late teens Alice returns to thr magical place that feels like a strange dream for her.
I cannot say I've read the original book, so I can't comment on how far it strays from the story, I do understand that this was meant as a kind of sequel rather than a straight adaptation. Tim Burton has definitely put his own touch on the characters, of which I thought Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen was the standout winner, even over a usually crazier than anyone Johnny Depp, the Mad Hatter, who seemed to me more of a manacly depressed hatter. I found myself routing for the Evil Red Queen over the strangely goth like White Queen in Anne Hathaway, as she was much more entertaining. I particularly found amusing the Red Queens abuse of animals, playing Croquet with flamingoes and hedgehogs and using a pig as a footstool, also every time someone anyoed her she would shout "off with their head".
I also have issues with films that were never supposed to be in 3D from day one and then decide to go 3D as an after thought, when done properly 3D can really add an extra dimension, if you will, to a film but when added at a later date it feels gimmicky, like the film companies are just using it as a way of charging an extra £2.
Unfortunately I think I set my expectations too high and was sorely disappointed with a very mediocre film.