Another childhood pearl ruined

Rating: 3/10 (7 December 2011)

I am writing this, moments after watching the movie, so forgive the harsh words.
When i first read Alive in Wonderland and after wards saw the Walt Disney masterpiece of an animation movie, I was amazed by the depths and tweaks of each character. Though everyone was mostly one dimensional and one purpose character, they all had they special way of being and talking.
In this up-to-date movie, a lot of the characters don't feel to have a purpose or a back story at all. The tweaks has been covered by an excuse of sadness which gets thrustet down your throat without any real explanation. Furthermore, a lot of important roles have either disappeared or replaced by someone without name or history.
The story is very linear, which is nothing new from Burton, though his other movies don't really need big plot twists to be enjoyable. This story though, really needed something big to help it off the road it, at the end, takes for granted. A lot of the story feels sped up and unexplained to keep it under a proper time rate, which backlashes through the audience, not really knowing why the certain scenes or events were used.
If you were looking towards this movie for great one liners and fast replying mayhem, as you might know from the original animation movie form Disney, you might want to skip out on it anyway. There's nothing childishly naive about any of the dialogs, making the story seem like it was just a tried and true copy that could be outplayed in any scenario or any story.
Talking about childish naivety (A thing that made this Alice a hit in the past, as well as Winnieh the Pooh). The movie lacks every aspect of this enjoyable feature. The only inch of this can be found in Tweedledee and Tweedledum who doesn't get enough screen time at all.
And just that one last thing. The plot that the movie sets in the beginning, seems through most of the movie, to have nothing to do with the end. The transformation from "insecure Alice" to "Alice with new beliefs and hopes" never really shows. The intro and ending more seems like an intermezzo than a story starter and a story ender
My advice: Watch it if you want background noise. Don't expect to come out after 2 hours of bad dialogs with a satisfaction If you want your kid to watch quality Disney, show them the old Alice movie.