Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 262
Fresh: 134 | Rotten: 128
Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherence -- and much of its heart -- but it's an undeniable visual treat.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 18
Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherence -- and much of its heart -- but it's an undeniable visual treat.
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Director Tim Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) team up to deliver this visually dazzling take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Nineteen-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is attending party at a lavish country estate when she sees a white rabbit with a pocket watch dart into the bushes. Curious, she follows the rabbit to an enormous tree, and tumbles down a hole that takes her to Underland, a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures in
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Cast
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Mia Wasikowska
Alice -
Johnny Depp
The Mad Hatter -
Anne Hathaway
White Queen -
Helena Bonham Carter
Red Queen -
Matt Lucas
TweedleDee/TweedleDum -
Crispin Glover
Stayne - Knave of Heart... -
Michael Sheen
White Rabbit -
Stephen Fry
Cheshire Cat -
Alan Rickman
Blue Caterpillar -
Barbara Windsor
Dormouse -
Paul Whitehouse
March Hare -
Timothy Spall
Bayard -
Marton Csokas
Charles Kingsleigh -
Tim Pigott-Smith
Lord Ascot -
Lindsay Duncan
Helen Kingsleigh -
Geraldine James
Lady Ascot -
John Surman
Colleague #1 -
Peter Mattinson
Colleague #2 -
Leo Bill
Hamish -
Frances De La Tour
Aunt Imogene -
Jemma Powell
Margaret Kingsleigh -
John Hopkins (V)
Lowell -
Eleanor Gecks
Faith Chattaway -
Eleanor Tomlinson
Fiona Chattaway -
Rebecca Crookshank
Strange Woman Kisser -
Michael Gough
Dodo Bird -
Imelda Staunton
Tall Flower Faces -
Christopher Lee
Jabberwocky -
Mairi Ella Challen
6-Year-Old Alice -
Holly Hawkins
Woman With Large Nose -
Lucy Davenport
Woman With Big Ears -
Joel Sweto
Man With Large Belly -
Jessica Oyelowo
Woman With Large Poitri... -
Ethan Cohn
Man With Large Chin -
Richard Alonzo
Man With Big Forehead -
Harry Taylor
Ship Captain -
Jim Carter
Executioner -
Frank Welker
Additional Voices -
Anne-Marie Mallik
Alice -
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Wilfrid Brambell
White Rabbit -
John Gielgud
Mock Turtle -
Wilfred Lawson
Dormouse -
Leo McKern
Duchess -
Malcolm Muggeridge
Gryphon -
Angelo Muscat
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Michael Redgrave
Caterpillar -
Peter Sellers
King of Hearts -
Alan Bennett
Mouse -
Peter Cook
Mad Hatter -
Eric Idle
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All Critics (264) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (141) | Rotten (131) | DVD (24)
Its single biggest failing -- an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature -- is the fact that it makes sense.
Top CriticThe true three-dimensionality here is the old-fashioned kind -- Wasikowska's fully rounded performance. Throughout the technical razzle-dazzle, we keep returning to the pallor of that face, the gravity in those eyes.
A visually imaginative fairy tale that suffers slightly from its predictable course but still manages to wow at all the crucial moments.
Burton and Disney have found a glorious way to interpret fairy tales and fantasies.
No knockouts here. No tkos, either.
Much of Carroll's magical nonsense remains, even if Burton's film wobbles at the gates of anarchy and ends up being a more average affair than many might expect.
This latest rendition of "Alice in Wonderland" is a journey worth taking mainly to see Tim Burton's imagination at play. The story is so well-known, but you haven't seen it done quite in this way before.
Time to take some of Lewis Carroll's advice, Tim: eat me.
It's the kind of movie that should inspire you to get a Blu-ray player and hi-def television if you don't have them already.
Storytelling has never been Burton's strong suit and his weakness is here compounded by a desire to somehow squeeze Carroll's topsy-turvy, logical-illogical tales into a teen-friendly, Disney-approved, big-screen adventure.
That Johnny Depp's take on the Mad Hatter is comparatively one of the more subdued performances tells you just how out there Tim Burton's film is.
Wobbles along as average entertainment garnered from a great book.
For all of the wild, 3D effects, eccentric characters and sly nods to its source material, the highlights ... are the performances of his two favorite actors--Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
Lewis Carroll is bent over a table, tears filling beneath his eyes. Something in your heart breaks. Your childhood, perhaps?
Burton's imagination never lets up ... and while those 3-D effects do seem to fade into the background, you can feed your head on his Wonderland for the entire trip.
...an endeavor that's big on spectacle yet small on plot...
More Disney than Tim Burton.
Despite stunning visuals and fine performances Alice in Wonderland never really goes anywhere. Or rather it goes somewhere we've all been before.
An endless series of tedious set pieces, flat characterization, lethargic visual effects, a waste of raw talent...
Even though Burton is unable to channel much suspense or awe, the film is a sumptuous visual delight. It all adds up to a mildly enjoyable adventure, sadly lacking in ambition.
The Tim Burton sensibility is a perfect match for bringing Lewis Carroll to life; unfortunately, when the screenplay gets around to creating a story to take place in this world, it becomes awkward and dull.
Audience Reviews for Alice in Wonderland
Super Reviewer
There has been many film adaptations from Carroll's story and possibly one of the best of those, along this Burton's vision, which took their it's inspiration from it, is Terry Gilliam's brilliant Tideland. That film took some of the best ideas of Carroll's story and also turned them into something very unique and uncompromising. Tim Burton, who is known from his gothic and candy coloured fantasies, brings his unique touch in Carroll's story and it truly works. There are just right amounts of twisted menace in this fantasy world as there is eerie beauty. This is certainly one of the most accomplished and most interesting worlds that Burton has created in his films so far.
I myself have always thought that if there ever was a material for Burton that could have made his talents as a filmmaker to blossom it was this one, and it does. Burton is playful with this material and does not make any limitations for his vision. I truly love his ability to make everything into something completely of his own. His creations has always that certain feel and look and Alice is Burtonesque to it's very bones.
There are so many great things in this film. Mia Wasikowska is delightful as a resourceful Alice and brings right amounts of cleverness, innocense and beauty to her strong title character. I also liked Anne Hathaway as a White Queen with almost ghotlike presence. Helena Bonham Carter is nothing new in a role of Red Queen but you gotta admit that she is the right person for these kinds of roles. The whole film overall looks and sounds outstanding and is masterfully photographed by great Dariusz Wolski.
Tim Burton does have much more innovation and imagination than many other directors and Alice in Wonderland is up there as one of his best films to date. It is pure escapism with surrealist vision at its very best. What makes it even greater experience is the fact that this is a film and a story that both kids and adults can enjoy. It is a fantasy film with outstanding quality and most of all with a big heart.
Super Reviewer
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- Alice: What an idea. A crazy, mad, wonderful idea.
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- The Mad Hatter: You used to be much more...'muchier.' You've lost your muchness.
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- Alice: This is impossible.
- The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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- White Queen: We don't have to fight.
- Red Queen: I know what you're doing. You think you can blink those pretty little eyes and I'll melt, just like Mummy and Daddy did.
- White Queen: Please.
- Red Queen: No! It is my crown! I am the eldest! Jabberwocky!
- Alice: This is impossible.
- The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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- Caterpillar: You're almost Alice.
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- Red Queen: It is far better to be feared than loved.
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Foreign Titles
- Alice im Wunderland (DE)
- Alice in Wonderland (UK)
