Down the Rabbit Hole, again?

** SPOILER ALERTS IN THE POST**


So, after much anticipation of the new Alice in Wonderland ( I mean, come on! Johnny Depp and Tim Burton! That duo has created films that are EPIC! They created movies that are my generations equation to STAR WARS), I decided to spend one of my free movie tickets to go see it.

Supposedly, this is a sequel of when Alice falls back down the rabbit hole at the age of 19 (two weeks to be twenty). She believes the original adventure was a dream when she was about eight. Her dad died. So she is with her mom ( who isn't all that in the story) going to a shin-dig, which she doesnt' know is actually her engagement party to a Duke is the red-head we see in the trailer. She is distracted by *gasp* a white rabbit in a waist coat. Can we say SOD? She follows and SURPRISE! Down the rabbit hole she goes again. Once shrunk, enlarged and shrunk again, she enters Underland, where she is chased and befriended. And leads the White Queen's Army against the Red Queen.

Let's start with Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. I was so hoping that after "Brokeback Mountain" she would break away from fairy tale. But in this movie, she looks like an albino woman on crack who decided to go Goth. All white with black lips and finger nails? And floating around like she is high on some new drug. You know that movie where the cartoon princes comes to New York, and is all gooey gooey floatey, singing to the birds and what not? Yeah, that is what our Albino Goth chick on crack does. This was not a good movie for her.

Johnny.. Oh Johnny! Such talent. It just didn't shine in this movie. His character had such potential, but I felt they cut it short. He would recite poems ( i think one was the Jabberwocky poem) but his voice would change to the point of incomprehensible understanding. He was limited in this role that could have been so much more.

The character of ALice. She seemed very abrupt. Speak, speak speak, breath and speak. Like I wrote the dialog back when I was twelve. "I am sorry. Please let us forget this. It is forgotten." NO depth in coversation. NO developement of the character. I did not believe it was Alice.

The Red Queen. What an ugly mess. Let's leave it at that.

The main thing I got from this movie (other than wanting a bantersnatch of my own, and a Cheshire cat and the door mouse) was it was about chess versus solitaire. The White Queen controls chess pieces. The Red Queen controls cards. Seriously folks.

That is the bottom line. The game of chess versus the game of solitaire. With a giant Jabberwocky that by rights should not have been killed by a girl who looked she stepped out of a Celtic Medieval time frame.