The main reason I went to watch this movie was because Tim Burton directed it. Yes, the guy who creates weird movies with really creepy atmospheres (remember Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas?). Not because I see Johnny Depp's heavily made-up face staring at me from posters spanning cinema walls to newpapers. In fact, the posters focus so much on him that they might as well rename the movie 'Johnny Depp the Mad Hatter'. Not that I've anything against him but isn't this movie about a girl called Alice who fell into a rabbit hole?
Anyway, Alice, after being ambushed at a party and forced to accept this creepy guy's proposal, she runs away after the rabbit she saw many years ago (this is a sequel) and falls down the hole after it. Amazingly, after falling maybe 10 stories or more, she crashes to the ground without a single scratch on her body. Surprised? Then the room tilts and she crashes to the ground again. Apparently, where she landed before was the ceiling. And again she gets up without as much as a moan. Wow, this is one invincible girl. But as she gets scratched up by a monster later, apparently something went wrong with her immortality.
It took her a while to get out of the room and meet the familiar cast of characters from the previous Alice in Wonderland stories, but she found them arguing about whether she was the right Alice or not. Apparently, the real Alice was supposed to slay the Jabberwocky and wrest the throne from Bloody Big Head, played by a brilliant Helena Bonham Carter.
Alice is brought to see Johnny Depp... oops, the Mad Hatter, and he leads her to the castle of the White Queen (white=good), sacrificing himself in the process and letting himself be captured by the army of the evil Red Queen (red=bad). But Alice, being a stubborn idiot, decides to play the hero and rescue the Mad Hatter instead of getting the hell out of Underland (apparently she misheard the name many years ago).
So she sneaks into the castle, befriends the Red Queen, frees the Mad Hatter and steals the sword she needs to slay the Jabberwocky. Alice then proceeds to the White Queen, a rather creepy Anne Hathaway who can't seem to put her arms down, preferring to hold them up without ever feeling tired. They become friends and defeat the evil Red Queen, freeing Underland of tyranny.
Alice returns to her own world and announces that it was too early for her to get married. Instead she got chummy with her groom's dad and decides to join his company as a businesswoman. The end.
Weird, huh? A modern day Alice. Underland is dark and depressing, filled with annoying little mice who enjoy driving needles into people's eyes and keeping them as momentos. What a freaky world...
Well, it was an entertaining movie throughout, not too cheesy to stomach but rather cliched so you could pretty much guess what was going to happen next. I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the previous movie I watched, mainly because I enjoy touching movies and not those filled with smart-ass girls and gore-loving mice.
If you want to watch it, I wouldn't advise you against it, but I wouldn't encourage you to either. So it's your own decision. Go figure.
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