Lacking script, marvelous effects

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2010)

Alice in wonderland, a supposed remake of the sweet Disney classic, yet it seemed much more like a sequel. Tim Burton made the sweet movie into a dark minded film. The movie as I said seems as a sequel since Alice returns to Winderland at the age of 19, and then she has to battle out the bad guys/monsters throughout. There is the new character of the White witch, but from previous knowledge the movie is a combination of "Jawberjockky"(sorry if misspelled) and "Throught the Looking Glass". So the title is the wrong if this is the combination of those two poems/stories. The acting, well it was fine. Johnny Deep, Helena Boham Carter, and Mia Wasikowska played their character close to perfect. The effects were really great, specially the Chesire Cat. Now, talking about the Chesire, I have to say that it looked awesome in blue as a change from pink. He looks more masculine, and more darker. Unfortunately every positive has a negative and that is the script. It was a little to boring and it just seemed as if it was a bad episode of a TV show. The effects were really well played, and even thought the movie was post converted to 3D, the 3D effects were great. In conclusion, the movie was good, not great, but the script was not that good. I would say a rental is fine, but buying the movie is not necessary.