Amazing visual effects but middling story

Rating: 6/10 (16 August 2013)

As always with Tim Burton, the visual effects were amazing!! Loved the intense colours and the look of the characters! However, the plot seemed too simple and the attempts at creating suspense weren't quite successful, perhaps because of the prediction that Alice would defeat the Jabberwocky. I also didn't get the whole mistaken identity thing and how there could possibly be another Alice; it didn't seem to serve any purpose. And it didn't seem very plausible that the Red Queen and her chief lieutenant could take so long to recognise her, given that they were supposed to be on the hunt for her. I haven't read Lewis Carroll's book before, but I have a feeling that the movie doesn't do justice to it.