Did Tim Burton actually direct this?

Rating: 4/10 (12 March 2010)

The main thing I felt after seeing this film was... Tim Burton needs to take a vacation.
A long one.
This so-called movie had virtually none of Burton's quirkiness and unique view of the world. The guy is making too many movies, and he's clearly on auto pilot. Alice in Wonderland was the most vacuous cinematic experience I've had in a long time. And this is coming from a long-time Tim Burton fan.
Sure, the film was beautifully designed, but it's filled with so many visual effects and many of them distracting, that it was almost impossible to be engaged with anything that took place. It was obvious that the actors rarely shared the stage simultaneously, as almost everyone was digitally mutated in some way. In fact, the whole film was various effects layered on top of one another in EVERY shot, and some of them poorly realised.
The script had no evidence of craft anywhere to be seen. The "story" just plodded along from one event to another, without any sense of drama or emotion whatsoever. Mia Wasikowska as Alice was so apathetically dull and looked quite anaemic (Was that intentional, and if so, why?) that she too made it difficult to care about what was going on.
What an incredibly synthetic and robotic production, regardless of its extra "dimension".
Maybe they should've considered adding more than one dimension to the script.