Not my cup of tea

Rating: 4/10 (10 October 2010)

While the 3D effects were fun, this movie did nothing for me. (Without the effects, I probably would have walked out of the theater, which I almost never do.) It was a mean-spirited and nasty movie.
This afternoon being a beautiful day, I picked up a copy of Alice in Wonderland at the library and read it out on the porch, as the birds sang and my more industrious neighbors worked in their yards. I was reminded of what a pleasure the book affords, all light cleverness and the joy of word games. None of the heaviness that makes the movie so slow-going.
Lewis Caroll may well have had his dark side, but it would take someone with a twisted mind and a Ph.D. in English from Yale or Duke to find it in this text.
Skip this movie and spend the afternoon reading the book. You'll be happier for it.