Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND trailer holds no surprises

So the biggest glimpse at Tim Burton's part candy-coloured/part charcoaled Alice in Wonderland is now online via a brand new trailer and there's few surprises. In fact, I feel like I've seen this movie before. Burton's got the Ridley Scott and Gladiator syndrome - probably deluding himself into thinking he is making something original, when really he's not. This is the creatively redundant Burton. The one we saw in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kooky Burton. The bright coloured Burton. The one that lacks the depth of his darker alter ego... you can see it in the hollow landscapes, the empty CGI surroundings these bland characters float around in. Maybe it'll look better projected in 3-D when you see Avatar (though don't blame me if your theater doesn't show it) but it just doesn't work in 24 frames per second motion on my mac. I absolutely hate this trailer. Bobble head Helena Bonham Carter and all...

Even Depp feels redundant in this fantastical Burton world. I just can't get excited about them working together anymore in the kids movie realm, where Depp has to play a mad eccentric because he can't shock me anymore in PG-13. I feel like I've seen every possible varation of the dressed up, mad cap, Disneyfied Depp. And the combo of Depp/Burton/Carter is so tiresome right now. Alice in Wonderland opens March 5th 2010.