movie review - Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)

Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extension of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland andThrough the Looking-Glass. The film will use a technique combining live action and animation. Mia Wasikowskaplays the role of Alice, alongside Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts and Stephen Fry as The Cheshire Cat.

The film is scheduled for release on March 5, 2010^[2]through Walt Disney Pictures in Disney Digital 3-D andIMAX 3-D, as well as in regular theaters. The film has been rated PG by the MPAA "for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations and for a smoking caterpillar".

Plot :

In this extension of Lewis Carroll's original stories Alice Kingsley, now 19, attends a party at a Victorian estate shortly after the death of her beloved father. The formal affair, unbeknownst to Alice, is an engagement party planned by her mother and sister. Just as the arrogant and boorish Lord Hamish Ascot proposes to Alice under a gazebo and before the eyes of hundreds of snooty society-types, Alice spots a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch. In shock and confusion, she runs off into a maze and follows the White Rabbit through it. She eventually tumbles down a rabbit hole into Underland, more commonly referred to as "Wonderland" by its inhabitants. It turns out she had visited this place ten years earlier but had entirely forgotten about it. She then reunites with her childhood friends, including the Mad Hatter, who explains to Alice that they need her help in over-throwing the Red Queen. This evil character has taken control of Wonderland from her benevolent sister, the White Queen. Alice is also told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwock, the dragon who terrorizes the inhabitants of Wonderland under the rule of the Red Queen. Alice then embarks on an adventure of self-discovery in the process of saving Wonderland and her friends there from both the Jabberwock and the Red Queen's reign of terror.