Making a children's story out to be something sinister is NOT a good idea!

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2014)

The original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book was just a story about a little girl who gets bored of her school lessons and has a dream about a magical world. Today, when people think of Alice and Wonderland, they think of mental hospitals, imaginary friends, schizophrenia, electrode-convulsive therapy, lobotomies and other extremely morbid topics. How did an innocent little kid's book become a topic with these creepy adult themes!? Was it that messed up video game made by American McGee about an insane Alice? Was it Resident Evil, where a character named Alice goes through a deadly laboratory? Was it that 1973 movie Go Ask Alice about the teenage girl on drugs? Was it that horribly inaccurate movie about the girl with Taurette's Syndrome, Pheobe in Wonderland? Since god-knows-when, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been made out by emo, melodramatic people to be something dark, creepy and disturbing, something it was never intended to be. Lewis Carroll must have been rolling in his grave when this demented Tim Burton Disney version came out.
What's sad is that before Burton was bought by Disney, he put out some spectacular movies (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Vincent, etc.) and now his work is all controlled by Disney. In this version of the movie, the story of Alice has been twisted around by Tim Burton so that it plays out more like a bad fanfiction between Alice and the Mad Hatter. As usual Tim Burton never hires anyone else more original for his movies, he's always gotta stick Johnny Depp and Helena-Bonham Carter in there as the lead roles, though to be fair, Alice was played by someone other than Winona Ryder or Christina Ricci (two actresses he uses way too much). Alice is nineteen in this version; it takes place after her original adventures as a young child and she's set up to hopefully marry an ugly guy named Hamish (seriously, they couldn't come up with something a little less obvious, he's a fat guy and they name him Hamish, definitely not original)! The voice talents of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman (Snape from Harry Potter) and the excellent acting job of Anne Hathaway (the lead character in the 2008 movie Passengers) were the only good things about this movie! The soundtrack was awful, the scenes such as the Mad Hatter doing a strange breakdance thing were just stupid and made no sense, Johhny Depp looked like Pennywise the clown from IT (1990) if he'd gone through the washing machine, it was morbid and scared my little brother half to death, it's all Disney-fied garbage and I hated it!