My 330th Review: Lots to admire, little to love

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2010)

Alice is clever, but it's not in the least bit fun in the way the book is: it lacks any real sense of lyricism and poetry, any sense of a light touch and subtlety that would makes the darkness intriguing and what we end up with is a mess; and a very contrived mess at that.
As an exercise in computer wizardry it excels, but Tim Burton of all directors was never about the technology and all about an extraordinary Adventure: here the Adventure is more Action than Acting. We were left exhausted and deadened senses and so numbed that our souls were empty....
We wanted to love this: it has a weirdness to it that is intriguing but at 1hr and 48 mins it felt twice as long, everything is at a ludicrously fast tempo - never a great sign - and above all, it allows the special effects to tell the story not the other way round.
I say again, lots to admire, little. if anything, to love.