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stounding costumes, magnificent make-up and superb graphics lend to this magnificent cinematic journey. As behests Tim’s touch there are the appearances of rickety, slanting buildings; a Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) whose head far outweighs her minute body; a Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) who is as nutty as the hats he creates; and a Cheshire cat (voiced by Stephen Fry) which appears and disappears in a puff of smoke as magically as the Hatter’s personalities (and accent) change.
This is a journey of the imagination or as Alice so often states ‘it’s only a dream’. Assured by her father (before he died) that all the best people are mad and should have at least six mad ideas before breakfast , Alice (Mia Wasikowska) takes all the apparitions in her stride and ultimately comes out stronger and able to stand up for herself in the real world.
Excerpts from the production notes:
“One of the reasons why Lewis Carroll's characters work so well in cinema is because they're wildly imaginative and there's no one way to interpret them,” says Anne Hathaway, who stars as the White Queen. “Because Lewis Carroll played around with words and concepts, and because the characters appeal to the imagination, I feel there are as many interpretations as there are imaginations in the world. It depends on what your take is.”
Tim Burton adds: “It somehow taps a subconscious thing. That's why all those great stories stay around because they tap into the things that people probably aren't even aware of on a conscious level. There's definitely something about those images. That's why there have been so many versions of it.
“As a movie, it's always been about a passive little girl wandering around a series of adventures with weird characters. There's never any kind of gravity to it. The attempt with this was to take the idea of those stories and shape them into something that's not literal from the book, but keeps the spirit of it.”
Do yourselves a favour this is one movie NOT TO BE MISSED! Be warned, however, that it is a little frightening, so younger children should be accompanied by an adult – and that’s the magic of3D!
Take a peek at the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA |
