More wonderment from Burton & Depp

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2010)

Normally I wouldn't add my comments to a film that already has 573 comments as of this writing, but I see that reviewers have only given it a 6.7 rating. Alice In Wonderland is much better than that. A 6.7 is for a movie that had a couple of interesting points but was not expertly executed. Or was expertly executed but didn't have much substance. Alice is neither of those. It is an imaginative film presented magnificently.
To backtrack a little, I didn't think I'd enjoy the prior Burton/Depp hook-up - Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - as much as I did, so I went into Alice In Wonderland with high expectations. That is usually a recipe for disaster as I am then setting myself up for disappointment. But those expectations were satisfied. The characters were rich. The color was richer and the sets were incredible.
I saw this movie at home on DVD, not in 3-D in the theater, and I feel bad that I didn't make the pilgrimage to the theater to see it in its glory, but maybe on the next Depp/Burton collaboration I'll do it. Here in Long Island, 2 3-D tickets would be about $30, and I wasn't sure if Burton/Depp would deliver the goods. They did.
Give it a shot. Sit back and enjoy.