Nice film - shame about the title.

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2010)

I am late with this review; many others have said their piece long ago and it appears that many expected it to be a re-make of the famous story.
If Mr Burton had called it "Not Alice In Wonderland" or perhaps "Alice in Wonderland 2" or perhaps "Alice Revisits Wonderland" or even, for as much as I care, "Alice meets Abbott and Costello in Wonderland" then maybe people would take the film on its merits and not on their ill-researched expectations.
I would have stopped there but apparently that is not enough.. so here goes: OK, it had its flaws and a few of the performances were rather derivative. I would be astonished if Helena Bonham Carter ever swore she had never seen Miranda Richardson doing Queenie in Blackadder before forming her characterisation of the Red Queen. Nevertheless she and Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas were all great. The only thing I hated was the stupid Futterwacken dance (what was THAT about?).