From worstpreviews [excerpt], Theatrical Review (by Dustin Putman): Tim Burton, once a visionary, can't-miss filmmaker whose quirkiness was consistently matched by his originality and dark style, has in the last decade resorted time and again to adaptations and inferior remakes over innovative ideas. Did he run out of new stories to tell? For every grand success he has more recently had (2007's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"), there seems to also be a cinematic miscalculation (2005's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") or an outright failure (2001's "Planet of the Apes") in his repertoire. Burton's latest, a quasi-sequel revisionist take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass," is a regretful dud, a fantasy without magic and very little heart and soul. Looking like an overblown cable movie without the money to do the visuals justice, the nonetheless big-budget "Alice in Wonderland" has no excuse for how uninspired and even tacky it looks, throttling live-action with cartoonish CGI effects that never suitably create a specific or believably fantastical world.
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2 comments:
I promised I wouldn't let Tim Burton disappoint me again but, well, here we are.
Every review I've seen thus far gave it the business. Too much Johnny Depp (which was one of my concerns), gross disrespect to the book, not trippy enough.
The preview looked amazing. F'in Tim Burton. Let's face it - he's a hack. He has two excellent movies (Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Ed Wood), a smattering of watchable fun ones and an increasing pile of crappers. This is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory all over again.
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