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Typical Boring Burton
PostedMarch 27, 2010
charmskool
from Los Angeles
I went in hoping, as I do with every movie I see, that I would like this film... but as usual, Burton's direction leaves me deflated. His pacing is continually monotone and even though there might be action sequences, it all seems to go at the same speed to me.
He uses the same actors in every film and the same score composer and that doesn't help matters but in this case, Helena Bonham Carter's performance does stand out in a field of blandness. Depp tries but fails as the Hatter who in this film, doesn't exactly seem all that Mad. Crispin Glover is usually so perfectly bizarre but Burton's direction leaves him as flat as the not so well done 3D. The 3D was OK, but after seeing Avatar, whether you liked the film and message itself, the Visual effects blow away Alice and so do the 3D effects. I even found the animated animals poorly executed at times.
Alice's message at the end is noble, if not contrived, but it can't save yet another film that Burton either completely ruins... or misses in a big way. The list is getting pretty long of films that fail to capture anything beyond Burton's bizarre "world" that was fresh and fun and exciting early on with "Beetljuice" but has become expected and stale with almost everything that followed. I hope his next film is not a remake or retelling but something new and maybe he'll pick a well written script/story too like "Big"Fish," which I feel is an exception to all his recent films and stands out as original, quirky and fun.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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