Johnny was the best part of the movie.....

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2010)

I love Tim Burton films and Johnny Depp is my all-time favorite actor and always will be and I love the two together. So ever since I heard about this movie I was excited and I was happy to see it. I was disappointed but not as much as some people appear to be.
Yes the plot of the movie was very dry, as I warn people who wish to see it. There is just the one story: Alice goes to Wonderland and must save it. There are no little twists. No turns. No extra stories branching off to capture our interest. But I do believe that the graphics and some of the characters made up for that. Mia's portrayal of Alice was okay but it could have been better. She seemed monotonous. She didn't show too much emotion and I think she could have been a little more shocked of some of the things that happened to her. The Red and White Queens were well put together and they were both amusing. Absolem was brilliant, as Alan Rickman makes his characters. The Knave, Dormous, March Hare... they were all wonderful. I love Stephen Fry, he's an amazing voice actor and Chesh was brilliant. He was probably my second favorite character in the movie. And, of course, Johnny. No matter what you put him in. No matter what situation, role, movie whatever, he's always brilliant. He has this ability to hold an audience's attention. I barely noticed Mia's dry acting, I barely noticed the boring plot because of the brilliant Mad Hatter. I have to say that it was the best portrayal of a Mad Hatter that I have ever seen because he was actually MAD. Johnny also combined a lot of his other characters into the Mad Hatter, particularly Jack Sparrow and Willy Wonka who were both insane (and had awesome hats) just like the Mad Hatter. I also enjoyed his continuous voice changes. I like the Scottish accent, it made me think of Braveheart (without Mel Gibson's fake Scottish accent). I also liked Hatter's evil alter-ego, it was a nice twist to the character.
The graphics were also brilliant. I love Tim Burton's attention to detail and he didn't disappoint me in that aspect of the film.
But the plot and Alice herself left much to be desired. And it also annoyed me (though most people might disagree with me on this fact) that the Hatter appeared to have feelings for Alice but didn't act on them. I know Johnny said that they were more like siblings but I know what I saw on that screen.
All up I liked the movie but it could have been better.