Alice in Narnia

Rating: 3/10 (14 March 2010)

I have been a big fan of the Alice books since I read them as a child. I have seen the Disney cartoon version many times and love the nonsense that i that it has in it. When I heard that Disney was doing another Alice in Wonderland, I was excited. On the day of the release I saw the movie. The 3-d was great, it gave it the surreal feel that the books had, but that was where the Alice in wonderland I loved as a child ended. The movie had very little to do with Lewis Carroll's books. The movie had the characters, they were just changed. Wonderland became Underland, the Cheshire Cat could now change into people, and the childhood dream of Alice became a dark place where Alice had to kill the Jabberwocky. It seemed that Tim Burton saw the Narnia movies and thought that he should take Alice in Wonderland and make it in that style. If the writer had taken time to read the books that Lewis Carroll wrote the movie could have been good, there was a great director, great actors, but a bad script and no heart to the movie. The Mad Hatter was good, he had the crazy feel of the character down, the March Hare was good and mad. The White Queen was awful being a woman who could not kill but could send others to kill. Where was that White Queen at in the books?
The graphics looked great, but looks cannot make a film great. The CG took over the story, took your attention away from the story and made you focus on what the environment looked like. I felt horrible after seeing this movie. I wanted my money back and wanted to forget the two hours I wasted on the movie.
I gave it three stars because of the aforementioned characters that were good. Other than that this movie was a waste of money to make and perhaps, in the future, someone will make an Alice movie that makes up for this one.