Burton's Alice: the biggest disappointment of the year! by Barbora Misakova

I was the one of millions who had a chance to see Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. As a big fan of Tim Burton I couldn’t wait to see it and I believed this is going to be another masterpiece. But now I can hardly describe my disappointment. This movie is the worst one he ever made, and neither 3D version nor well known faces such as Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter did help it. Although it is difficult for me to criticize “Alice in wonderland”, it would be much harder to glorify it. But Burton seems to be satisfied. On the question why did he decide to bring a totally new vision of “Alice” he answered that there have been many versions, b! ut he never really liked any of them. “I felt like in other versions they tried to be too literal.” he said. Burton’s main aim was to use the Carroll’s characters to explore what his work did for him. “Instead of excluding fantasy from reality, he uses the fantasy to explore real themes and real issues. That’s what I have always been fascinated in.” Burton said. On the question referring to use of 3D animation he said it was just another tool for him, not a gimmick as someone would think. As he said: “It is like how you would use colour or sound, and it just kind of brings you into the world more, which is something that was very exciting to me.” But was it also exciting for the viewers? I took the liberty of citing one of Rotten Tomatoes’ subscribers Gina Carbone from Seacoast Newspapers, who summed it up when she wrote: “Tim Burton is the kind of director who probably does come up with six impossible things! before breakfast. So it was a surprise to see him produce a f! ilm so l acking in joy, innovation and curiosity.”

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