Alice in Wonderland
It must first be acknowledged by all that this is not the original story of Alice in Wonderland that we all know and love. So those holding out for a remake will not find one here. The best way to do this is to actually separate the two and think of it as two different tales that are interlinked.
So the story begins with a young girl and her father, the girl being Alice (surprise, surprise) is complaining about strange dreams that she been having. Of course most of us have guessed with little trouble that it’s in reference to Wonderland. Skip ten years or so and the girl is all grown up to be a palely (and some might say ordinary looking, of course not I) looking young lady who couldn't be older than 20. When faced with a prospect of marrying a pompous red haired she does what any right minded 20 year old would do - run like the wind, follow a rabbit in a waist coat and fall into a rabbit hole, drink strange substances and meet mad men and save them from evil big headed Queens. But wait I'm getting a little a head of myself. So Alice falls into rabbit hole and meets the creatures of Wonderland. But this isn’t simply a story of strange creatures, no, because that’s been done before. No, this is a tale of a girl with a quest to save of creatures both small and great from the Evil Large headed Queen of Hearts and in turn discovers herself. As ordinary as that sounds I’m sadden to inform you that it was essentially the plot of the film.
It would be a crime against to the art of film reviewing to not mention the actors and the characters in Alice in Wonderland. I was rather impressed by Alice's character, I was afraid that she would be a fluffy, melodramatic character but she wasn't. You, as expected really like her character and she genuinely seemed like a nice person. However as pleasant as Alice was there was something really unnerving about the White Queen who was played by Anne Hathaway, the supposed good queen of the Wonderland just seemed fake and a little bit of a "goody-two-shoes" (I know I sound like a child). I feel that there is something sinister about her too and behind that "I'm so good" exterior lies a slight arrogance. First I must admit I'm quite a big fan of Anne Hathaway every since my love the Princess's Diaries 2 (I know insult me if you must, but everyone has their guilty pleasures. Its just mine is worst I actually like Princess's Diaries 2) but that being said or more like that being typed I found her really annoying to watch, particularly her hand movements. As if channelling the Good Witch of North from the Wizard of Oz, but rather looking graceful and she simply looked like she was flapping her hands around to compensate for the fact she does not have wings. It honestly felt like watching a teenage girl trying her best to act in a school concert and in turn slightly over doing it.
In general Alice in Wonderland was a pleasant film to watch. It was nice and neat and some might say that was its problem and use it as criticism. It was too nice and too neat and therefore lack the 'It' factor. It's didn't take us to different place or amaze us. For those who with high expectations would have been disappointed but I was not one of them hence I enjoyed it. Alice in Wonderland although entertaining is forgettable, you will watch it today and years down the track you may not even remember ever watching it.
*this statistic is full of shit! But most statistics that is given are full of shit and is only there for the writer to look smarter.
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