Just Watched: Alice in Wonderland
Anticipation for a Tim Burton picture is always worth the effort, at least most of the time. While the guy keeps employing various visual techniques in each of his films, the style and approach more or less remain the same. Here, in collaborating with Disney, he has all the reasons to make it a visual treat and he does just that.
A perfect mixture of style and substance, Burton’s retelling of the Lewis Caroll classic is something that should take the viewer by surprise as it will appeal to him in a way that only few films do. The perfect performances by Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp are the icing on the cake. The voice overs given by Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman are very good too (They voice the Chesshire Cat and the Blue Caterpillar respectively.) Mia Wasikowska has done a pretty decent job. The only major disappointment in the acting department happens to be Anne Hathaway, who doesn’t make too much sense in her role as the White Queen. Everything else in this film is worth every bit of it’s worth (barring a few lines). Magical, truly.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Personal Rating: 8.4/10
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