All these reviews and nobody gets Tim Burton by a mile here

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2010)

This movie titled Alice in Wonderland is not about the book or previous movies titled Alice in Wonderland. Not in the slightest.
Burton has created another alchemical Grail story, and it holds up quite nicely. Think about Mozart's Queen of Night in The Magic Flute, the 2 beasts of the Apocalypse in the Revelation of St. John, King Arthur's sword Excalibur, Alice's disengagement from being Alice, and her insistence that it's all a dream she can awaken from anytime she wants- and you get where Burton wants to go with this.
He is creating a modern cinematic myth, and does a nice job with it. That's all I have to add.
Personally for sheer nostalgic purposes only, I would have enjoyed seeing cameos of Edward Scissorhands doing the gardens off to a corner when Alice first reenters Underland....and Captain Jack Sparrow as the Ship's Master at the end, but that would only have confused movie-goers even more....