Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures) (2010)

[lsanderson]

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland.”
What’s a Nice Girl Doing in This Hole?
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 5, 2010

Into the dark you tumble in “Alice in Wonderland,” Tim Burton’s busy, garish and periodically amusing repo of the Lewis Carroll hallucination “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” It’s a long fall turned long haul, despite the Burtonian flourishes — the pinch of cruelty, the mordant wit — that animate the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and the porker that slides under her feet with a squeal. “I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet,” the queen tells Alice. Played by Mia Wasikowska, Alice looks a touch dazed: she seems to have left her pulse above ground when she fell down the rabbit hole of Mr. Burton’s imagination. More

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yikes!

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[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Depp looks like he's turning into Helena Bonham Carter and HBC herself looks like she is turning into a Tim Burton animated-character maquette.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Burton fails again.