Alice in Wonderland Hollywood Adventure Fantasy Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp ,Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Timothy Burton
Production: Joe Roth ,Suzanne Todd, Richard Darry Zanuck, Jennifer Todd
Original Music by: Danny Elfman
Cinematography by: Dariusz Wolski
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Release Date: 5 March 2010 (USA)
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Alice in Wonderland Movie Synopsis:Tim Burton takes a stab at Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) lost within a fantasyland with this 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland. The Lion King's Linda Woolverton provides the script, with Hollywood heavyweights Richard Zanuck and Joe Roth heading up the production team. Burton veteran collaborator Johnny Depp co-stars as The Mad Hatter in the Walt Disney Productions picture.
Alice in Wonderland Movie Plot:
19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
Alice in Wonderland Movie Reviews 1 :
Once in the fabled fantasyland of her youth, Alice discovers that the Red Queen is up to her old tricks again and ruining wonderland. She learns that she must stop the Red Queen by killing a Jabberwocky (a monster amusingly borrowed from another Lewis Carroll tale). She gradually learns her place in Wonderland by embarking on a quest that sees her enlist the aid of all the classic Wonderland characters including the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Chesire Cat, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, and the Mad Hatter. It all leads towards Alice learning a lesson about staying true to yourself rather than basing your life on the expectations of others that she then applies to a hastily tacked on denouement back in reality. So, it’s not exactly a traditional interpretation of Alice In Wonderland by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, the movie is designed as a sequel to the original Disney adaptation with a Tim Burton facelift. This approach works well enough for what it is, but given the fact that we’re dealing with one of the most beloved works of children’s literature in history, it would have been nice if the filmmakers had chosen to stick somewhat the original text.
Unsurprisingly the high profile project has managed to secure an amazing cast. Burton’s personal Corpse Bride Helena Bonham Carter fares best as the Red Queen, vamping it up as the larger than life villain with hilarious results. Her massive CGI enhanced head draws most of the attention at first, but Carter is such a talented actress that you soon forget the effect and enjoy her performance. The instantly recognizable voices of Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry shine as the Cheshire Cat and Blue Caterpillar respectively, with their well established onscreen personas perfectly capturing the characters. Cult actors Crispin Glover and Matt Lucas (amusingly cast as a CGI enhanced Tweedledee and Tweedledum) make the most of their characters even though they are rarely required to do more than provide plot exposition. Anne Hathaway is perhaps the only miscast performer, struggling to draw humor out of the impossibly perfect White Queen.
Then of course there’s Johnny Depp, the unlikely superstar who has been the centerpiece of the marketing campaign as the Mad Hatter. Depp’s is predictably insane and eccentric in the role, creating the type of quirky characterization that only he can pull off. His Mad Hatter is a memorable one, but unfortunately it’s all too obvious that his role was expanded once his star name signed onto the project. The Mad Hatter was always a amusing aside in Wonderland, but in this version of the story he’s reinvented as a key figure in the universe and the character who holds Alice’s hand throughout her journey. It’s an awkward character expansion and while Depp does make the role his own, it would have definitely worked better in a smaller dose. Young Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is certainly beautiful and capable of holding her own against the big name supporting players, but Alice gets lost in this story. She undergoes a very predictable hero’s journey and feels more like a necessary grounding force to counterbalance the insanity of Wonderland than a strong protagonist. Burton seems bored by the character and gives Mia Wasikowska little to do beyond appearing pretty and surprised simultaneously.
Reviews 2:
Wasikowska does her job well as the heroine, equal parts curiosity and feistiness, she doesn’t steal the show but provides a solid lead. Depp’s Hatter is a double-edged sword- his split personality and random outbursts befit a more ‘real’ (if there is such a thing) portrayal of the tea-sipping Looney, but even the biggest Depp lover would have to admit he’s in it far too much, becoming Alice’s sidekick towards the end. Hathaway is a little redundant as the White Queen, a role that anyone pretty could have played, and Bonham Carter’s Red Queen is entertaining and funny but lacking in any sort of menace. Along with Depp, the other unique performance is that of Stephen Fry, voicing the Cheshire Cat as if he were the ghost of Rex Harrison.
As a film, there’s nothing terribly wrong with ‘Alice In Wonderland’, but there’s nothing that defines it from a standard epic family movie. What starts well and looks great moves into something that is difficult to really get in to, ending with a climax that could have been pulled from any standard fantasy film. Perhaps it’s asking too much or setting a bar too high, but it’s a disappointingly generic offering from one of cinema’s most original filmmakers.
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