Alice In Wonderland Review

. I was really looking forward to seeing this version, especially as it was in the professional hands of a director that could do it justice. From the previews, I was a little worried that the special effects would be a bit on the bad side; and to an extent, they were. A lot of the effects centred around characters being different sizes to those around them. Even though I didn’t like the ‘Lord Of The Rings Trilogy’, I felt those films did a much better job of this; for instance putting a very small Elijah Wood, next to a regular sized Sir Ian Mckellen. And let’s us not forget, these were about 10 years old. Next up, the fully CGI characters, which were as bad as they were in any film. I still find it amazing that nearly 20 years after Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, there doesn’t appear to be any distinct improvement in computer generated imagery. The film as a whole was a decent enough to sit through, but for one that was directed by Tim Burton, and a story that is said to have been written while the author was high on drugs, it was a relatively straightforward movie. Compared to the complete madness and mayhem of Disney’s version, this could be said to be just an offshoot of the Harry Potter franchise. It actually made me want to go home and put the Disney version on, juts so I could re-scramble my brain. Another aspect that made the Disney version so brilliant, was all the great voices that were used for the characters. In this version it was just boring to hear the same old ones being rolled out yet again, and you can just picture them standing in front of a microphone with a script in their hand. At times it was a little slow, but then as the minutes ticked by, you could hear ‘the drums’; signalling the approach of yet another big battle scene in a film. I was very interested to see how they handled it, this time, and the best thing I can say is that they kept it short. May I also say just say how much the actress that plays Alice, is the spitting image of a much younger Gwenyth Paltrow. Then there’s Johnny Depp, who was a little annoying at times when his accent kept changing from English to Scottish. Obviously a little reminder to everyone that he could still do it since his role in ‘Finding Neverland’. Matt Lucas? What a stupid idea that was; it looked as though someone had just painted his face onto a balloon, then blew it up. His characters Tweedledee & Tweedledum, were nothing like the creepy ones in the Disney version. Speaking of these two, what the heck happened to ‘The Walrus & the Carpenter’ story they told in the Disney version?