Alice in Wonderland has opened to mixed reviews, with words from “magical” to “formulaic” being used and even the great Johnny Depp being described as having “too much of the Willy Wonka lingering about him”. It has been variously described as a “3D epic for the next generation” and “only a must see for young girls who like fairy tales and teenage stoners”.
A completely new take on Lewis Carroll’s story, it features a stellar cast portraying Wonderland later in Alice’s life (she is 19) when things have taken a turn for the worse.
Kind of a shame to take someone like Johnny and dress him up as the Mad Hatter but Tim Burton knows what he is doing....
With Tim Burton in charge it’s highly unlikely to be less than spectacular, and his affectionate partnership with Johnny Depp (anyone see Friday night with Jonathan Ross this evening?) seems set to continue to produce weird and wonderful epics in the vein of “Edward Scissorhands” which shot Depp to fame in 1990.
Tim Burton went beyond weird in Edward Scissorhands
When asked, tongue in cheek, about the possibility of doing a romantic comedy, he was both amused and horrified at the suggestion saying mildly that it’s “not his thing”. Amongst many other things, it’s that resistance of the temptation to be one of the Matthew McConaugheys of the world, cashing in purely on near perfect looks, that makes him such a phenomenon.
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