Expunged Intelligence

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2010)

Who are you? I felt like the Blue Caterpillar as I watched this movie, without benefit of the water pipe. This production has flattened the intelligence of the original story and turned it into boilerplate Disney. Sad. No Dodo dialog. No Walrus. No Tweedle-Dumb-Dee repartee. No discernible March-Hare riddles. A vaudeville shadow of its source. Perhaps the American psyche is getting stupid because the diet offered up by its media is lacking in proper nutrients. Johnny Depp needs to let go of his zany thing for a while. I admire his talent, but this aspect of his repertoire is getting stale. Helen Bonham Carter and Stephen Fry (Cheshire's voice) steal the show.