Well done

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2010)

I am not a johnnie depp fan or a Tim Burton fan but loved this. Liked it even more the second time watching with my daughter. She pointed out references to the original I missed. I suggest watching this when you have no distractions because it is easy to miss something important. When I watched it the second time I realized how much I missed the first time. Tim Burton was definitely a fan of, or at least well versed in, the original. My daughter and I agreed we did not like some of the unnecessary violence (pin in eye) and we did not care for the color of the chesshire cat (blue). The scene at the mad hatters table was not as memorable as in the original. We also felt tweedle Dee and tweedle dumb were better portrayed in the original. The red queen scenes are all hilarious and depp is great as the Hatter. Overall great effort but the original is a classic and thus hard to beat.