A poor adaption that chooses style over substance

Rating: 4/10 (16 October 2019)

I'm a Tim Burton fan in general with movies like Batman and Beetlejuice as well as recent flicks like the new Dumbo, but this film was not made well. For one thing, this feels more as a pseudo sequel to the cartoon than it is a remake. So here's the plot. A grown up Alice RETURNS to wonderland (called underland in this one.) Alice has to fulfill a prophecy to kill this evil dragon owned by the Red Queen. Honestly, this takes everything that made Wonderland great and turned it into an unnecessary war movie. It features Johnny Depp as the Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, but their performances are beyond over the top, with Depp acting too weird and Carter too loud. Mia Wichowski as Alice was especially bland and not very interesting. The film mostly relies on its 3D, cgi, and visuals when it should rely more on the story at hand. So yeah, this is not one of Burton's better films sadly.