The credits say "based up the works of Lewis Carroll" but i say "spat upon the works of Lewis Carroll"

Rating: 2/10 (3 November 2010)

OK it's 2010 we know the formula by now, every few years Tim Burton churns out a big budget movie with none other than Johnny Depp (whom I usually enjoy), Danny Elfman (doing the score of course) and Helena Bonham Carter....Burton has remade some movies in the past...but I will go as far to say as this is more ambitious than Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (because of the 100 plus years of the book being around and the following the original Disney CLASSIC has) but anyways onto the movie. The movie starts out with Alice at the age she was in the original CLASSIC (8 I think? i dono) but she asks her mom about some stuff she saw in WONDERLAND before going off to sleep and aging 13 years, cut to the 'present' with Alice on her wedding day and Alice sees a rabbit that no one else seems to see and follows him (from the Altar) down the hole (once again) and finds the table with the "drink me" bottle on it (but doesn't remember it....Did I mention that this is supposed to be a sequel to the original) and shrinks (again!) and is surprised by it, but thank goodness she finds the 'unshrinking food' again...meanwhile bodiless voices discuss whether or not she is "the" Alice (an important plot point) anyways she gets to be the right size and goes through the door to what can only be described as Tim Burton's dreamworld. Alice makes her way to the Caterpillar (again) then to the Chesire Cat (actullay I'm not sure of the order....) then to the Mad Tea Party (which is actually quite sane....like the rest of the movie....which doesn't make sense...this is wonderland) and Johnny Depp begins his countdown of how many times this film will reference the original (yes I am aware that it alludes to the book as well) but I guess my problem is that it's as though Burton had only watched the Disney CLASSIC and read the Jabberwocky poem....because this movie feels nothing like the book...or the CLASSIC for the reason. For brevity's sake I'll sum up the rest of the movie....Alice slays the Jabberwock peace is restored to Middle Earth...I mean Narnia...excuse me Wonder....UNDERLAND (phew) the evil queen is banished to another childhood classic..blah blah blah...but really Burton tries to make nonsense makes sense....and he dances upon Mr. Carroll's grave by doing so.