I guess I've had my expectations lowered by Michael Bay and Uwe Boll for treatments of beloved characters but Tim Burton and his cast did a great job of doing a sequel to the story of Alice in Wonderland that honored the original while taking us someplace new. Johnny Depp is (with Christian Bale and Viggo Mortensen) an actor whose movies I will see on faith, no matter how much the subject matter may seem uninteresting, and he does not disappoint here. All the characters, both real and CG, had nuanced personalities and, like my favorite books, movies and videogames, made you feel like their world goes on even when you aren't watching. I loved this movie and was very happy to have my daughters have something like this to reinforce the notion that within the scope of socially-decent behavior there's still a lot of room to forge a unique identity.
BTW, I thought the 3D Imax presentation was very well done. My face hurt from smiling at all the little details that added charm to the world of the movie.