Alice in Wonderland (3 stars)

First, this has to be compared with Dark Shadows, which has several of the same people involved. Alice is so much better than Dark, and each of those people involved in both is so much better in Alice. I heard it said a long time ago that Meryl Streep creates an accent for each character she plays. I realize now that is true too of Johnny Depp, who manages to carry each unique voice (and look) consistently through a film. Here, he is quite good as the Mad Hatter.

The story seems to mix the two books together. I don’t know why Alice is older here than in the books; accounting for that just bogs down the story. I wonder what Carroll would have thought of Alice as an emancipated, entrepreneurial woman. For the most part, I enjoyed this movie for the characters and the visuals, not at all surprising for a Tim Burton movie.

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