Monday, March 22, 2010

Mar 21st
Alice in Wonderland** (PG)
Odeon Colchester

US 2010. Walt Disney/Team Todd/Roth Films/Zanuck Company. 108m. 3D

19-year old Alice defies a marriage proposal and overthrows the Queen of Hearts with the assistance of the Mad Hatter.
The imagination of Lewis Carroll meets the even more fertile imagination of Tim Burton (with a strong influence of The Lord of the Rings or Disney's own Chronicles of Narnia series about it), a would-be sequel to the original which actually just reimagines the story all over again, with a good deal of visual wit and charm in some of the characterisation whether human or animated, although the epilogue with the emancipated Alice is a misjudgement.

Written by: Linda Woolverton.
Producers: Tim Burton, Richard Zanuck, Joe Roth, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd.
Director: Tim Burton.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), Helen Bonham Carter (Red Queen of Hearts), Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lindsay Duncan, Geraldine James, Leo Bill, Frances de la Tour; voices of Alan Rickman (Blue Caterpillar), Stephen Fry (Cheshire Cat), Michael Sheen (White Rabbit), Barbara Windsor (Dormouse), Timothy Spall, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Imelda Staunton.
Photography: Dariusz Wolski.
Music: Danny Elfman.
Production Design: Robert Stromberg.

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