Well You Can't Win Them All

Rating: 5/10 (8 March 2010)

You would think it was a perfect recipe, Burton, Depp and Lewis Caroll, yet from the moment very early on in the film when I saw the dreadful acting of the child Alice and her father in a mawkish bedroom scene , surely too badly done even for a school play, I knew this was going to be bad. The movie stuttered badly with poor performances from most of the human players, Depp appeared to be puzzled as to how to play his role as the Mad Hatter, surprising since I for one would have thought this would have been a gift for him, he was at times well frankly boring. Like wise Hathaway who could have been missing from her role and I'm not sure I would have noticed, she really acted VERY badly. Seen by me in 3D this was a wasted opportunity for the film makers to prove the worth of this format, very blah effects all the way thru'. On reflection, I'm now becoming alarmed as the animated characters clearly acted their human counterparts off the screen, what does this say for the future of the Oscars ? Having got used to animated/part animated movies with a kids theme but definitely aimed at the adult market, this is a film aimed at the adult market but really isn't up to viewing by anyone over the age of 8 years. An expensive, wasted opportunity .