Not much of a muchness

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2010)

With all the special effects, and erstwhile efforts of the cast, this version of Alice in Wonderland is a bore.
They took a book about SOMEthing, and turned it into NOthing. The original was a satire about language and thinking and about how society creates so much of a something about nothing.
And they took a knife to the story and butchered it for 2010 social tastes, because the idea of social ideology as a meaningless construct is 21st century heresy. Worse, even, than in Carroll's time. At least THEY had a Carroll to point out the inanity of it all! The plot device of Alice fighting the Jabberwocky was stupid and revolting at the same time. Alice was FAR more a heroine when she used her wits than a sword to emerge victorious.
Must everything be mangled into a video game?