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I haven't seen the film, and have no plans to see it. The NYT review
just butchered it.This is about the book, which I love.
The book is satire. When Alice falls down the well, he is poking fun at the British rote education system. She knew facts, but had not the slightest idea what to do with them.
The line, 'you have to go twice as fast just to stay in the same place' describes the fate of people living in an aging empire quite nicely, as does the Mad Hatters tea party.
The book is full of, well, stuff. You need to know what he's talking about, since he's doing (among other things) topical satire. But there are ruminations about philosophy and math, as well.
What the book doesn't have is developed characters. You could update it,
and do contemporary satire using the book as a sort of template.But if it was like the book, with clever delights for intellectuals,
it would exactly bring in the teen audience that movie makers worship.Oh well.
read the book, skip the movie.
the book is one of the great gifts of literature.
Edits: 03/20/10Follow Ups:
what is the point of butchering a classic in this way? oh yeah! Hollywood needed more money so they put a young woman in Alice's part.
I used to respect Tim Burton...
thanks
Phil
. . . at least they could have remained true to the personalities of the original characters and to the original tone of the story. I forgot to mention another thing I didn't like, and that was Danny Elfman's music, whose misplaced melodrama and heaviness added to the clichéd nature of the whole production. This movie had "corporate decision making" written all over it!
I guess it's the same comment as others have had. Disney, Team Todd, and all the other makers of this movie took a sensible business approach and created a family friendly "girl power" plot out of various elements of Carroll's writings. Obviously, this was an enormous financial success.
But it ain't Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton's still got a great visual imagination and the 3D adds- but it's generic whimsical girl power action movie. The wit, indeed, is gone.
Amazing technology - and IMHO well acted too.
But what the writer did was to take a masterpiece of wit and absurdity and develop it into a generic "thrill ride" movie. So disrespectful of the original, and so lazy. Bleah!
It became hit or miss with Burton
All that shit coming down pouring on us.
Blue screen and digital shit.
That may serve the director´s ego, but will it serve us.
The wave of attack on this film from people who haven't seen it is a little bit strange.
Fascinating.
I've only seen the Times review, which made it clear the book was raped.
Did you see anyone who made comments along the same lines as what I said?
It is a subtile mixture.
I did not speak directly of that particular film, as I did NOT see it, save some small moment, and generally I like Burton.
It was the strange estrangement of actors I was critiquing.
The whole situation.
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