NOT at all like Alice in Wonderland

Rating: 4/10 (20 September 2012)

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is a film that I really just don't like, at all. Alice in Wonderland is just an obvious sign of Tim Burton just going straight downhill and hitting rock bottom. This movie just doesn't care about any of the characters or the conflict that it just leaves you with a bad taste by the end. As good and whimsical as the 1951 Disney version is, Burton's version does not even try to enchant you it more just tries to make you love the movie for the visuals.
Alice in Wonderland is a movie that just doesn't care and is just a bad movie.The story tries, but fails. 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world of wonderland, where she reunites with her old friends and learns that she has to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. This movie does not even try to relate the show back to the original movie or book. Was there even a Red Queen in the original story? You mean the queen of hearts?
The good in Alice in Wonderland is there, but far between. Nice visuals, but that should be a given for this movie. Johnny Depp is good as the Mad Hatter even though he is not memorable at all. Actually, that is all of the good I can think of, that is sad that there are so few good things in this movie.
There are a TON of terrible things in this movie. The story is just awful, I mean terrible. It just is obviously there to push along the effects. The acting from out main, Mia Wasikowska, is pretty bad and she basically sleepwalked throughout the whole thing. I have seen her in good things like Lawless but she really can't act here. Also, many of the main characters we are supposed to like are just not likable. Both the Dormouse and Tweedledee / Tweedledum are just characters I ended up despising by the end. Tweedledee and Tweedledum are almost Skids and Mudflap bad, yeah that's right I said it.
Overall, Alice in Wonderland is just a film I really did not care for. This film doesn't even try to entertain and comes of more as Transformers for Twilight fans. I can honestly say Alice in Wonderland is the worst adaptation of this classic book and one of Burton's worst films. Next, Tim Burton decides to reinvent one of his favorite T.V. shows, and fails badly.