Woe in Wonderland as Burton makes a horrible cinematic experience...

Rating: 2/10 (5 June 2010)

Tim Burton is an unusual director. He is extremely talented, very gifted, with visions that overwhelm all but himself. Perhaps that is why his work is a bit of an acquired taste. He is capable of making fantastic films but every now and again he makes one which is horrible.
Alice in Wonderland is the perfect example. Much of the story is sacrificed, with the main focus being the CGI, which I have to say is not very good. Compared to other movies with much smaller budgets, it is quite poor. Johnny Depp's is the only good performance in the movie, and that too wasn't up to his usual standard. Mia Wasikowska's Alice is extremely wooden meanwhile The Red Queen was a character I could not stand, simply because she was so bloody irritating.
Somehow, I managed to endure the movie, surviving a long painful, and rather boring experience. Nothing in the film interested me, nothing gripped me, nothing made me want to see more. With every passing second that I watched the movie, I fell down a long, thin hole of bad cinema. And at the end there was no Wonderland. Just a horrible experience that I will try to forget...