Alice in Wonderland PG
A trippy pretty send up to Lewis Caroll's classic fairytale of a girl transported to a strange world where she encounters a mad hatter, a disappearing glowing cat, insane queens and of course, a white rabbit who is always late. Tim Burton seems restrained by studio people who want to remake 'Narnia' and 'Pirates' movies into this movie, so at times there are weird battles and odd conflicts deviating from the source material. However if one thinks of this as 'Through the Looking Glass', the lesser follow up to Alice, then it kind of makes sense. Alice returns to the rabbit hole to avoid her debutant party and marrying a dopey suitor, and discovers her strange dream world from her childhood turned dark and foreboding by an angry Queen of Hearts with an enormous head, (Burton's wife, ha, hey he cast her like that), a White Queen, (Narnia riff maybe), a Mad Hatter, (weird with Johnny Depp at the helm, er under the hat), and a Cheshire Cat, and the usual mad characters from the series. Oddly there is this strange background about defeating the Jabberwocky, which is now a creature she has to fight. Hu? Okay. Still in 3 D it's amazing and weird and best viewed on the big screen. Review by Adam Browne
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