Amazingly boring and unrelated to the books

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2011)

This was a failed movie by many a reason, starting with the expectations raised by a Tim Burton movie and ending with the unsympathetic characters therein. There was a scene where 3D animated dogs and pups play together. They should have taken that and made it a movie and forget about the Alice in Wonderland idea.
What was also incredible to me was the enormous distance from the books to this "adaptation". Go on, read the Wikipedia article on Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The genius of Lewis Carroll was not in making another book about a delusional child, but the internal logic of the worlds and the mathematical and chess foundations of the work. It was something special. They completely trashed that.
Bottom line: Tim Burton usually makes terrifyingly beautiful animation and script work. This was both banal and boring. I didn't really like Mia Wasikowska in In Treatment, but she was brilliant in that show compared to the cold "I am just going with it because I don't care" look in this film. Even Johnny Depp messed up with his inconsistent Scottish accent. No, really, however I look at it, this film is an utter disappointment.