Written
March 27, 2010
Nothing to do with Alice (thank God!)
This film was top-to-bottom Hoillywood cliche of the most hackneyed and tiresome kind. I'm all for female empowerment and self-realization, but our popular culture is crammed to the gills with it these days, and to advocate for it takes about as much courage and originality as saying you're against child molesting. All of the wonder and fun and satire of the original Alice in Wonderland are crammed through a meat-grinder of political correctness, gratuitous and inauthentic violence and smug self-congratulation and rendered into an over-sweetened glop that would have made Lewis Carroll vomit. That said, the film had some nice moments, mostly in the details and characterizations, such as the Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and the Queen of Hearts, and it also had some real visual wit and style. But Johnny Depp, whose characters usually have some integrity and punch, is totally emasculated here, but it's nothing to what poor Anne Hathaway is subjected to.
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4
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