ALICE IN WONDERLAND is Burton's "big fat dead end"

by Matt Holmes

In the opening paragraph to his pitchfork review, Drew McWeeny writes that Friday's big Disney offering Alice in Wonderland...

"..is wrong-headed in pretty much every way it can be, poorly designed, loud, and worst of all, boring. It is a catastrophe as a movie, and as a place marker in the career of Tim Burton, it is a big fat dead end".
His review is 100% spot on, and very much compliments my own from last week...
"Any sign of the artist whose career I've enjoying watching over the years is submerged completely here, and what we're left with is a whole lot of art direction, a ton of expensive effects work, some of the ugliest 3D of the modern era, and not a hint of fun or wonder. Add to that a script that seems to be almost completely ignorant of what it is that makes the original work by Lewis Carroll so significant and elastic, and I'm genuinely baffled as to what anyone is expected to take from the endeavor".
Drew's review ends on a somber note...
"I'm just plain sad that this is where Tim Burton is as a filmmaker in the year 2010. And with "Dark Shadows" and a "Sleeping Beauty" riff in his future, it feels like he's got nothing left to say".
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.