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Alice in Wonderland Review
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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton reteam once again – this time it’s for an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
Mia Wasikowska is 19 year old Alice, a girl who’s facing the possibility of being married off to a man she doesn’t love and on the verge of enduring a life she really doesn’t want.
As she runs off to consider the proposal, she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland.
However, on her entrance to Wonderland, she finds she has a destiny to fulfill – she must free the land from the tyranny of the Red Queen (Helena Bonham-Carter) and restore happiness to the land she visited as a child in her dreams.
But with the Red Queen on the war path, and the evil Jabberwocky to be unleashed, it looks like Alice really has her work cut out.
Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton falls down the rabbit hole as he re-visions Lewis Carroll’s classic novel. This is Alice with extra Burton flourish.
The story takes place some years later than the original, with a decidedly more grown-up Alice (Mia Wasikowska). She is19-years-old, stubborn, grieving for the death of her idealistic and inspirational father and about to receive a marriage proposal from someone she most definitely doesn’t want to marry.
When summoned to take a stroll in the garden with the bossy Lady Ascot (Geraldine James), who is trying to push her into marriage, Alice gets distracted by a white rabbit and runs after it. Having chased it to the rabbit hole, she promptly falls in…read more [Love Film]
Alice in Wonderland Wallpaper
Alice in Wonderland – Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen)
Never have toves been so slithy or a film so brillig. Tim Burton’s spectacular reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, which had its royal premiere in London last night, takes Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwocky poem and makes it a 3-D epic for the next generation.
Traditionalists may quibble with Burton’s Gothic ride through the Alice books, but his hallucinogenic humour is true to the originals. Plus you don’t get a cast any better than this. The standouts are Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen with a bulbous head and a venomous tongue, using a live pig as a footstool, and Alice herself, played by the Australian actress Mia Wasikowska with frowning confidence and not a drop of soppiness…read more [TimesOnline.co.uk]
Alice in Wonderland Video review [New Orleans Movie News]
Matt Lucas as Tweedledee / Tweedledum in Alice in Wonderland
Not that there was any doubt that, when it came to restaging the 1865 Lewis Carroll classic for a 21st century sensibility, Tim Burton would be the man for the job.
But even the filmmaker’s trademark winsomely outlandish style doesn’t prepare you for the thoroughly enjoyable spectacle that is his “Alice in Wonderland.”
A fantastical romp that proves every bit as transporting as that movie about the blue people of Pandora, his “Alice” is more than just a gorgeous 3D sight to behold.
Armed with a smartly reshaped but still reverential script by Linda Woolverton (“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King”), Burton has delivered a subversively witty, brilliantly cast, whimsically appointed dazzler that also manages to hit all the emotionally satisfying marks…read more [THR]
Alice in Wonderland World Preimere Live stream
Watch the live stream from London’s Leicester Square of the Royal World Premiere. You can see exclusive access all areas footage, including interviews with Alice in Wonderland’s all-star cast as they walk the red carpet; from Johnny Depp (the Mad Hatter), Anne Hathaway (the White Queen), Helena Bonham Carter (the Red Queen), Australian rising-star Mia Wasikowska (Alice), and UK comedian Matt Lucas (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) to the film’s director Tim Burton.
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