Perfect Burton not for Children.

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2010)

Let me start off by saying has anyone ever read both Alice books written by Lewis Carol? If you have not, then the comparison that some make to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and calling the "Queen of Hearts" the "Red Queen" has not read those books.
Like in any adaptation, the source material is just the blue print to build the house on; and there is going to be a change in it when it gets to the site to be built. Well the same goes for the Alice in Wonderland.
This Movie is not for children it is for older children. If your child had a problem seeing "Coroline", then this movie is not for the little ones. This movie is pure Burton at his finest! With all of the whimsical, Gothic humor and noir.
There are many reviewers that dispatch this movie to the trash, but they either have not read neither of the books nor have understood that to be silly and to be part of a world that does not make sense Is what makes this movie what it is. Like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Mike T.V. says that what he seeing does not make sense Charlie says (paraphrasing) it is not supposed to make sense after all that is what candy is.
Don't try to over think through every frame, but take it as a good story being told by a master story teller through glasses of Gothic noir. Oh yes, if you see it in 3D be careful with the little ones, there are some sequences that, as true to form for Burton, there are at times creatures that come up "at your face". Other than that little bit of warning, grab on to your our popcorn and get ready for a wondrous ride through Wonderland (Underland, see the movie and you will know) Yes, Jonny Depp he is the Mad Hatter after all he is supposed to be mad and zany even with orange hair.