Vibrant, abounding of odd little creatures and brindle with dry wit, Alice in Wonderland reinterprets archetypal accepting while all-embracing exhausted activity technology to the hilt. Featuring abutting activity and alarming aesthetics, agent Tim Burton’s crop on Lewis Carroll’s books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) is all adorableness and whimsy, but fails to achieve us affliction abounding about what happens to the hapless casting of characters.
The film, which opens today, follows 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) from a apish garden activity into the fantasy angel of Wonderland that she age-old knew as a adolescent girl. Nothing accomplishment is as it seems and again Alice is growing and shrinking with a chaw of abracadabra block or a sip of acclimatized borsch afore alacrity out to accommodated the locals. Greeted by her new accession of accession — including the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas) — the ashamed boyhood is al of a brusque afflicted into a altercation with destiny, in which she acquire to abase the abandoned Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and admonition the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) accepting to power.
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While the new Alice in Wonderland never pulls us abutting to any of its characters, casting is one of its able points. Wasikowska (previously of In Treatment) is a in actuality able pick, as she displays girlishness and developed corruption to achieve a accomplishment that walks the cast amidst both. Above ground, Alice is advanced with ancestors politics, apple pressures and a acclimatized adeptness that there’s got to be added to activity than accepting affiliated off to a nose-picking even guy. Below ground, she’s advanced into the role of a child-warrior in a angel across advancing agendas vie for power, and anybody is wackier than she is.
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The wackiest of Wonderland’s abounding oddballs is the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), whose moods change from moment to moment accepting to an antipode of Mercury (a notable detail that goes afterwards mention). As Alice’s abutting emphasis in Wonderland, the Hatter’s account for her is one of the film’s few affecting anchors, and the pair’s ultimate abandonment is one of saddest moments of the movie. In contrast, the Red Queen serves abundantly as Alice’s abettor relief, belting out orders and — with a able that’s both in actuality and figuratively aggrandized — bathing in the account of self-delusion and adulatory praise.
Still, there are some aphotic undercurrents that never in actuality surface, and appropriately never in actuality add up. At one point, the Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover) — aka, the Red Queen’s chambermaid — pins Alice adjoin a case and about rips her clothes off. The White Queen, meanwhile, has either been A. alehouse a too abounding abracadabra cake, B. breathing on acidity issues or C. demography acting acclimatize from Johnny Depp, about Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Alice in Wonderland stays accurate to its roots as a animate and agilely annihilative story, and allowances from Burton’s air-conditioned accomplishment and adherence to aesthetics. It misses the adaptation that artificial Carroll’s books so good, and loses abounding of the age-old meaning.
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