It was average at best. To be honest it just shows exactly why Tim Burton is becoming boring. The only good character was the Cheshire cat because it was voiced by Stephen fry. The visuals were great but it just felt empty and soulless. Johnny Depp's mad hatter character was annoying as hell. He really tried way too hard and in the end I hated his character every time I saw him. Also that dance part at the end was one of the most awful and out of place scenes I have watched in ages. It was so forced and terrible especially with the song. It was quirky to the point where it just became monotonous to watch. The Avril Lavigne song during the credits was awful too. It had so many odd characters that could have worked well but they all just felt either annoying or pointless. Overall it just felt like a painfully shallow and dull film with only good visuals to make it stand out. Nowhere near as good as Tideland, which had a similar concept but did it much better. CGI can be great if done well but if used too much it becomes empty. The Imaginarium of doctor parnassus had amazing visuals but it also had an interesting story and characters to support the visuals. Alice in wonderland had the visuals but it lacked everything else. I would give it a 5/10.
Film-Guy
I have to pretty much disagree on almost all the points here (besides how awesome the visuals were and how out of place the song was on the end credits).
The movie turned out BETTER than I had expected. I loved all the characters and was very much charmed by Alice (don't know the actresses name off-hand but she did a hell of a job for debuting as a lead). The Cheshire Cat was AWESOME and I did enjoy the Mad Hatter and was at the same time pleasantly surprised to see that Depp hadn't overrun the film.
My favorite parts about the movie though were probably the theme of basically "If you are different don't just be what others want you to be" and the symbolism in the movie was simply excellent. I want to watch the movie again to see if I can spot anymore symbolism. I mean come on, the Red Queen has a huge head and surrounds herself with people who have a body part thats abnormally big (Basically representing her huge ego she has and how she surrounds herself with other big egos). In fact there is just simply an enourmous amount of symbolism through size alone.
Seriously, I just loved this movie and was so impressed with the huge amount of symbolism throughout and I also loved just how quirky a world Wonderland is.
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