a great film for children

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2010)

I know there are many reasons I liked this film. Linguistically it was just shy of genius but I think Lewis Carroll had something to do with that. No, no it was that this was the first film I had seen in a long time that expanded the concept of mental illness to children in a friendly way.It had me laughing when no one else was! It was beautiful and not impossible to guess what Burton was getting at visually. Just a beautiful, brilliant film. 9 stars... It has been a rarity for mental illness to be portrayed to youngsters. we simply haven't known how to do it. Lewis Carroll did with his book but it almost seems to me with less confrontation. The actors and actresses were wild looking. The redemptive advice Alice gives to her aunt about dispelling delusion was classic. This is something I have been waiting for, now about trying The Phantom Tollbooth.