Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American live-action/animated dark fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, and Mia Wasikowska, and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. The film was loosely inspired by Lewis Carroll's fantasy novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and Walt Disney's 1951 animated film of the same name. Alice in Wonderland was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and shot in the United Kingdom and the United States. The film premiered in London at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 25, 2010, and was released in the United Kingdom and the United States through the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats as well as in conventional theaters on March 5, 2010. While not the first such film in general, Alice in Wonderland started a trend of live-action fairy tale and fantasy films being green-lit, particularly from Walt Disney Studios. A sequel, titled Alice Through the Looking Glass, was released on May 27, 2016.

Plot
A young girl when she first visited magical Underland, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is now a teenager with no memory of the place -- except in her dreams. Her life takes a turn for the unexpected when, at a garden party for her fiance and herself, she spots a certain white rabbit and tumbles down a hole after him. Reunited with her friends the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Cheshire Cat, and others, Alice learns it is her destiny to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Poor grasp of source material from the book and the original 1951 film.
 * 2) *Queen of Hearts was fat in the animation, but here she is thin.
 * 3) *Mad Hatter appears to be younger than in the 1951 animation movie and book.
 * 4) *Dormouse is female, but in the 1951 animation movie was male.
 * 5) *The King of Hearts appears never to have existed and is replaced by the Jack of Hearts.
 * 6) *The Blue Caterpillar remains a blue caterpillar. Which doesn't make any sense, as he became a butterfly when he met Alice, as seen in the 1951 animation movie and book.
 * 7) Some scenes are too scary for children. (ex. The dormouse pulls the Bandersnatch's eye, the victims' head on the Red Queen's river, and Alice slices off the Jabberwocky's head.)
 * 8) Jumbled plot that can't decide if its really a sequel or a remake.
 * 9) The Mad Hatter is creepy for the wrong reasons.
 * 10) The Futterwacken dance is way too modern and very out of place.
 * 11) Johnny Depp's performance sucks as the mad hatter.
 * 12) The film actually has a story, a rebellious action film, but nothing special. While the original was all about Alice going through Wonderland and observing nonsense and finding out the importance for rhyme or reason.
 * 13) It is never explained what happened to the Dodo after being captured by the Red Queen's soldiers.
 * 14) Like almost every Hollywood movie that has Australian actors, Alice is a Brit and is played by an Australian despite there being plenty of British actors that could do better.
 * 15) The Queen of Hearts is unfortunately renamed "The Red Queen" for some reason.
 * 16) Alice's last name is "Kingsleigh" when her real last name is "Liddell".
 * 17) False Advertising: The Mad Hatter and Johnny Depp's name appears in the posters, trailers and DVD covers as the leading character, when he's not even the main protagonist but Alice is.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Nice soundtrack by Danny Elfman.
 * 2) The acting, especially Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter, is pretty good.
 * 3) The characters are interesting.
 * 4) This remake makes changes to the story, unlike Beauty and the Beast (2017) or The Lion King (2019). A different perspective is given, which some people and viewers can like.
 * 5) The special effects and CGI characters are well done.
 * 6) Beautiful cinematography.
 * 7) Good costume and set design, that clearly shows it's a Tim Burton movie.
 * 8) Stays faithful to the source material of the 1951 movie itself.
 * 9) Alice by Avril Lavigne and Her Name is Alice by Shinedown are great songs, despite of the Shinedown - Her Name is Alice be more like a music from mh:awesomegames:Alice: Madness Returns than from this film.

Reception
Alice in Wonderland received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, although praised for its soundtrack, visual style and special effects, the film was criticized for its lack of narrative coherence and sombre tone. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 51% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 274 reviews; the average score is 5.73/10. The consensus is: "Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherence—and much of its heart—but it's an undeniable visual treat.". Metacritic gave it a score of 53 out of 100 based on 38 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average rating of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

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