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Friday, March 05, 2010

ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D **½

Tim Burton directed this Fantasy adventure starring: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Christopher Lee, Paul Whitehouse, Barbara Windsor.  See Trailer  Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar. Running time is one hour and forty-eight minutes.

Alice (Wasikowska),  returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with : the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the red Queen (Carter), the white Queen (Hathaway) and of course, the Mad Hatter (Depp). Shown in 2D and 3D.

I saw this in the 3D version and the 3D and CGI effects are quite impressive. The cast is fine with Wasikowska doing a fine Alice, Depp appearing quite mad, Carter being appropriately despotic, and Hathaway being underused. When all was over, however, I found myself singularly uninvolved in the whole drama. It's nice to look at but there's no one here you're really going to care about and I think you'll have forgotten all about it within 30 minutes.. Younger generations will find this more entertaining than will those, say, over 40. I'd expect large crowds during the opening week but it shouldn't be hard to find a seat after that. There are a lot of 3D films being released this Spring and only a limited number of 3D auditoriums, so I don't expect to see this here for an extended stay. 3D theatres & times. 2D theatres & times. 

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