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Alice in Wonderland (PG) 108 mins"You've got a very important date."
Director: Tim Burton Screenplay: Linda Woolverton from Lewis Carroll's books Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski Original music: Danny Elfman
Tim Burton combines Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in this exuberant reworking of Lewis Carroll's classic tales. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is now nineteen. Fleeing from an unwelcome marriage proposal she returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a child, and is reunited with many old friends: the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas and Matt Lucas) and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny, in the course of which she must defeat the Jabberwocky (Christopher Lee) and end the reign of terror of the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). The film also stars Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Alan Rickman as the Blue Caterpillar.
"Tim Burton's magical and inventive visualisation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland both reinforces and delights us with its upside down world, intriguing perspectives and age-old conflict of good versus evil. Burton's sensibilities are happily compatible with the bizarre world in which Alice finds herself and he has created a wondrous film in which the ordinary and extraordinary are wildly stirred, delivering a bewitching fantasy for young and old." Urban Cinefile
"The film is enchanting in its mordant way until, unfortunately, it arrives at its third act. Why does Alice in Wonderland have to end with an action sequence? Characters not rich enough? Story run out? Little minds, jazzed by sugar from the candy counter, might get too worked up without it? Or is it that executives, not trusting their artists and timid in the face of real stories, demand an action climax as insurance? Insurance of what? That the story will have a beginning and a middle but nothing so tedious as an ending?" Roger Ebert "What Burton has done is take an inventive children's story and turned it into a Chronicles Of Narnia-style fantasy romp, but when the big set-piece battle arrives, it's very hard to care who wins. It all looks nice, mind you, with plenty of bizarre creatures and incredible imagery, particularly in the Red Queen's palace, complete with frog courtiers." Daily Mirror
For more information, and to see a trailer and stills, visit the official website at www.adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland
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