Review made: 26 May 2010
It strikes home, this movie. The next step, I guess, is to read the book that's got me curiouser and curiouser. I so love Alice and her determination.
The plot is a typical story of courage, friendship and power, a cliched fantasy fiction that is rather a far cry from Lewis' child-like intentions which only deals with dreams. Burton's version deals with the Red Queen and overthrowing her, a sorta solution to her evil reign and not leaving us hanging as we were when we watched the classic Alice years back. The evil Red Queen still ruled and Alice was left to run in escape from capture, which did not seem to serve as a proper ending. Up till now.
i wouldn't say Burton ruined our long-loved childhood tale or did it injustice. Nor would I praise it to high heavens. I was actually unhappy with the whole affair after Alice went home to an average ending to the adventure. Of course I left the cinema feeling less than satisfactory and that thr was sth more tt could be had. I think I felt upset like the Mad Hatter was whn Alice didnt decide to stay behind. Maybe tt was it!... There was some sort of belonging she had w tt place, yet she denied it.
Sigh, all the colourful characters tt were, in the world of metaphors and madness... everyone had a bit of madness to them. All had their own eccentricities and weirdness to their name. Red Queen had evil surrounding her moat, White queen was exaggerated thru her gentleness (tho esme claims she has some dark side to her too), the Cheshire cat smiles (I naively tot cats cud smile or portray their happiness until i got a cat =P i was deceived!), the caterpillar is smart tho, and the Mad Hatter... what can i say, except woots!!
