Alice in Wonderland
We have passes for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, starring Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
This film is based on Lewis Carroll’s two Alice novels, combining elements of both to create a ‘new’ story in which Alice is a young woman bored with the formality and predictability of her Victorian world. Facing a marriage proposal, she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland, where the famous White Rabbit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the Mad Hatter speculate if she is indeed ‘the Alice’ that is destined to slay the Red Queen’s Jabberwocky.
Pay no attention to bitter British film ‘critics’; this is one exciting 3D journey that offers terrific performances from Bonham Carter – with a delicious rendition of the character’s ‘Off with her head!” line – and the voice cast (including Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee and Matt Lucas), and launches Wasikowska as Hollywood’s next big star.
Depp has been the centre of attention since Disney announced his participation, and particularly since they released the first photos of him as the Hatter. He takes the orange-haired character beyond what any previous incarnation has done before, but the intention to create another extravagant and iconic character like Captain Jack Sparrow is so transparent that it ultimately fails.
Depp’s transition from Captain Jack let alone all his other films to our latest character in Alice in Wonderland is nothing short of magnificent. Wow…I am impressed such talent dwells only in the heart of a true actor who can summons up whatever character he deems necessary for the part. Well done Johnny people shall be talking for quite a while about this one. Keep them coming, we strive to be entertained. Best regards Bruce Notman Brisbane, Australia.
Burton at his best has to be on shown in Sweeney Todd. Not only does he find a way to make a musical that isn’t “alive with the sound of music” (neutering by way of film) but he manages to bring his own distinctive, creepy style to the genre. Burton proves that musicals don’t suck, just the people who make them. A great film!