Saturday, August 14, 2010

Costume Drama Whore-A-Thon Day 8

Day 8 'Alice in Wonderland' (2010)
A sequel to the Disney's cartoon Alice in Wonderland. Alice finds herself back in Wonderland meeting up with the Mad Hatter and friends, battling against The Red Queen and all that good stuff. Alice is very unhappy in the real world, having to decide whether or not to marry for money or to follow her dreams and take over her father's shipping business. But, she sees the White Rabbit from her dreams, was it it a dream? Alice follows the White Rabbit and, well ends up falling down the rabbit hole and in Wonderland on another adventure of a lifetime.

Directed by Tim Burton, it screams like a Tim Burton film. I like Burton so it doesn't bother one bit. I dug this film, I've read complaints but I liked it. Maybe all that complaining was about the 3D, but I saw this on DVD. It's visually amazing. the CGI is incredible, you felt like all the creatures and Wonderland were real. The costumes were unbelievably gorgeous, especially in the beginning of this film. I think Alice had like twelve costume changes. The best part, Lindsey Duncan and Geraldine James were in it. There roles were to short but it was so awesome to see them, especially since I didn't know they were in the film.

I love Helen Bonham Carter, but please Tim Burton, stop putting your wife in all your movies. It's getting old. Johnny Depp was his usual self. I was confused as to his decision to get all Scottish brogue when the Mad Hatter was getting all dark and creepy. WTF was that about?

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