A movie lost in Wonderland

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2010)

I sat through the movie and dozed off a couple of times. When it finished, I found I was not the only one and the kids behind me gave a moderate OK to the movie. I usually enjoy watching kids movies. Compared with other kids movies, this one failed pathetically.
The story of Alice in Wonderland is well known. A little innocent girl lost in wonderland and experiences all sorts of wonderful magic. That was what made the story so popular to families and children.
What we have here is however, a grown-up Alice who has out-grown her naivete, in the middle of a personal crisis and fallen through a rabbit hole into Wonderland. She is not curious about anything anymore and just wants to get out of there. Nothing thrown at her surprises her. She just deals with it because she has to. There also lacks a story line to stitch the events together. She just bumps into things and people one after another. The dialog was also poorly constructed and boring. The wonderful computerized animations did little to excite the audience (not quite possible anymore after Avatar).
The whole production feels like the retiring Wonderland staff making a last ditch of effort before it closes down. If the title was not "Alice in Wonderland", I wonder if anyone would bother to see it.