No matter how much you want to like this movie, you’re going to be disappointed. Like everyone else, I had high expectations for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. They were not met.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton must have felt like the rabbit in the story, because it looked like he was in a hurry to finish the story in the shortest amount of time possible.

It’s not that the screenplay wasn’t going anywhere. It went from point (A): “Alice (Mia Wasikowska) falls down the rabbit hole” to point (B): “Alice fights in a battle against the evil queen”. What happened between those two points was really confusing.

The characters, just like the screenplay, kept zig-zagging from one end of Wonderland to another.

The producers probably insisted on keeping the movie under a 2 hour duration.

Lewis Caroll’s Wonderland is a heterogeneous world filled with a multitude of eccentric characters. Within this complex environment, fitting a story in a short time frame (1h48mins to be exact) can be a perilous endeavor. Read the rest of this entry »