Crazy Burton visual style

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2014)

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is an independent-minded 19 year old girl. She is being pushed to engage the horrible lord Hamish. Her family has fallen on hard times after the death of her father. With Hamish on bended knee in front of everybody, she runs away following the White Rabbit. She falls down a hole into a world called Underland which resembles her one dream which she's had ever since she was a little girl. She meets the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and many other fanciful characters.
This is Tim Burton's visual style through and through. He gives an unique look to the already wonderful Wonderland. The characters are all too familiar. Mia Wasikowska is a perfectly lovely actress. I do wish her character has a bit more fun. That could be said of the movie itself. Both Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are suitably weird. However Anne Hathaway is way too weird and it doesn't fit her. Matt Lucas is fun as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I am not in love with the story especially the third act. It tries to take it to a more serious real place. I like this more for the crazy visual style than anything else.