You know what's up, you know where things are going and you're never shocked.

It makes you laugh at times, it pins you to the back of your seat at others, it gets you leaning forward trying to drink in every detail of the place, but it's not ever actually surprising. Given that it's Tim Burton working with Disney, it's often gruesome and scary, but not too much. It's a great big treat of a movie, to be sure. (It's very, very good, but strange things happen if you look somewhere the 3D doesn't want you to look and there's the odd moment of strangely stiff animation, especially when human(-like) characters are completely CGI-ed up.) Unexpectedly, it sometimes feels like one of the Narnia films (though makes those movies look like accountant-led spreadsheets that have been printed out on toilet paper and left out in the rain), but mainly it's exactly what you'd expect from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. It's a treat for the eyes, with the imagination and design shining through the technology. Wonderland is an amazing place, often colourful, but equally often ravaged and desolate.

The story is your standard journey, emotionally, but all set in a very Tim Burton Wonderland. It is that, being the story of a nineteen year old Alice who returns to barely-remembered Wonderland, but it also lifts dialogue and scenes from the original books. playing a character her actual, real size I can see why the they've not really wanted to call the film a proper sequel. who actually steals the movie with just two lines AND Babs Mitchell-Windsor. who nearly steals the movie, just by doing what he does best Christopher Lee. who against all my expectations, still does know how to be very funny Alan Rickman. who does actual voice acting and doesn't just read his lines Paul Whitehouse. who doesn't dance, unfortunately Helena Bonham-Carter. as a winsome young lady Alice who discovers her inner fortitude Crispin Glover. as Willy Wonka, if Willy Wonka hadn't been Michael Jackson Mia Wasikowska. Disney presents Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland STARRING Johnny Depp.

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