A wonderland that is dreamy and funny and simply wonderful. A trip that we take on in dreams.

Rating: 6/10 (20 September 2014)

A wonderland that is dreamy and funny and simply wonderful. A trip that we take on in dreams.
Alice has a dream and the whole story is a familiar story for most who have known it since childhood. But never have I seen it come off so wonderfully with exquisite costumes, art direction and the graphics that are so intrinsic. Once you have the whole feel of it, then each characters come across with a panache that is their own, be it a stalwart like Johnny Depp or a Anne Hathaway, all take the story forward in a way that is so engaging and also enticing.
The music took me in and was fantastic, it was aptly creepy at most times and it was thrilling too as the trip went on. The finale music is just a great one though the finale fell short of lot of my visual expectations. I must say the movie got dragged right when Alice met White Queen and since it started to loosen a grip on a suspense thriller it held to for thus long.
All performances were very very engaging and they all induced a character of their own and this appreciation goes to Burton for extracting such performances.
Burtonish and Johnny Deppish. It's 3/5. It is good for now but surely could have been a Wow had the finale been better and the movie been shorter.