horrible, violent movie

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2010)

Wow - what violence! And I don't mean just for a "children's" story. I don't think children should watch this. I wanted to walk out after about 15 minutes. This is a dark, violent movie with evil, mean characters. Helena Bonham Carter spewed, "Off with her head!" about ten times too often. Enough! I don't remember any of this violence in the book. There were some excellent special effects. The disappearing Cheshire cat was well done. The caterpillar making its cocoon was interesting. But this was not enough to make it worth seeing. I usually wait for movies to come out on DVD because of movies like this. I wish I hadn't wasted my money and time watching this in a theatre. If I had waited for the DVD, I wouldn't have felt the need to watch all of it, and could have saved a couple hours of my life.