Not one of Burton's better films

Rating: 4/10 (11 March 2010)

Most people will be aware of the Alice in Wonderland story, but this latest film by Tim Burton takes place with a grown up Alice. Alice is facing some tough decisions in the real world when she falls down the rabbit hole into the mysterious world below.
The film is unmistakeably a Tim Burton film, but it isn't really up to the quality of his best films in my opinion. The biggest draw back is that you don't really feel any empathy with the characters. I have been trying to work out the reason for this and have a feeling it may have something to do with it being a 3d film. There are various sequences which showcase the 3d technology with creatures jumping out of the screen. The problem with this is that these shots are virtually always irrelevant to the plot. The film doesn't have a good flow and I get the feeling that if it was edited to remove the '3d effects' and extend the dialogue in the key scenes it would be far more satisfying.
I wouldn't go as far as to say this was a bad film, but I feel it should have been better. You could probably watch any five minute sequence of the film and you'd be craving to see the rest of it. The only trouble is that after watching the rest of it you'd probably wish you'd stuck to watching 5 minutes.