Exceptional

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2010)

Well, there are always going to be different opinions on some movies, but I found this movie quite exceptional - and also something of a breakthrough. It is hard to give a simple reason why - since I see it as a composite of things well done. If one considers the whole movie an art form, like a painting, it is just that I found the whole setting remarkably pleasing. The human acting portion, the amazing CGI that combined with real humans, the coloring, the incredible design of the red queen and the mad hatter, and of course the smile of Johny Depp which seems no one on the planet can duplicate or even tell if it is friendly or not. (smiles). All together, I find it casts an image that I have not seen before this time. It is fantasy at its best, done by the best.
And I would call it a breakthrough movie. One could credit the movie the Wizard of Oz with bringing us color, since it began in black and white and then switched to color, even if it was not the sole color movie of its time. And then there was Jurassic Park, which to me was far more than a movie, but the coming of age of CGI where it had matured to appear to be real - and could even describe a history of creatures we had never before seen. And of course during those years, some movies had real humans as always, and some were total animation and some had a combination of the two. But to me, the way that this Alice in Wonderland movie combines CGI with humans to create the Red Queen, to create Tweedledee and Tweedledum as composite humans and CGI with exceptional creativity, I believe takes us to a new level. Now fantasy can be combinations of the real and imaginary - perhaps as our dreams really are.