Alice In Wonderland by Tim Burton

Oh how I long for the old Tim Burton to come bursting into my life. It seems to me apart from The Corpse Bride and to a lesser extent Big Fish, that Mr Burton has been gobbled up by the machine that is hollywood.

Where all his old films had a practical visual and very much gothic aesthetic even in his two Batman films now a days its all CG and lifeless.

Alice In Wonderland promised so much and delivered on nearly none of it. A great director, great material with one of our great character/lead actors in a supporting role. But it is all to no avail.

It is truly a lifeless and depressing affair. To see so much talent wasted, so much money wasted on something that seems to have been made purely on the account that it was this materials time to get remade. And while there will be a lot made about the fact that this is a sequel to the original Disney animation, I think it tries to give us all the stuff that people remember from the original and just repackage, I'm sorry reimagine it, I'm sorry I mean sequel.

It's lowest point comes near the end of the film, where there is a truly horrible dance. That is all I will say on the subject.