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alice in underland
10 Mar 2010 08:32 pmI wonder if not reading the original work meant I missed half the story? I expected this to be a lot darker than it turned out to be. I mean it's Tim Burton! With Johnny Depp! In really bad makeup! Again!
But it just seemed far too straightforward while being confusingly non-linear at the same time. Then again, Carroll is rumoured to have written the whole thing in drug-induced delirium, so maybe it's stupid trying to make any sense of it. I just expected more oomph from Burton, and maybe a heartrending twist somewhere.
It felt like the exact sort of movie that too many years of Hollywood teen movies turned me off from, the type starring a pretty face with one expression fixed in a perpetual petulant scowl. Mia Wasikowska's performance as Alice seemed really flat, and she carried off every emotion with the aforementioned expression - she scowls when she's confused, she scowls when she's angry, she scowls when she's reluctant, she scowls when she's aghast, she scowls when she's frightened. She's like the female equivalent of Bleach's Ichigo...she even scowls when she's smiling!
I expected more from other human characters considering they're such big names, but they all seemed a little immemorable. The White Queen was such a bimbo but at least Anne Hathaway was convincingly in character the whole time. I hoped for more from Helena Bonham Carter because I like her a lot, but the Red Queen just...didn't seem convincing. Depp is fun as the Mad Hatter but his mannerisms are getting way too familiar, especially after three movies of intoxicated clumsiness in Pirates of the Caribbean. There seemed a whole lot of Mad Hatter X Alice-ness, so much that I expected him to walk in after the blue butterfly and was flabbergasted that the credits rolled Orz
In the end the characters I found most interesting where the talking animals. Alan Rickman's derisive drawl is so awesome ♥ And IWANT loved the Cheshire cat ♥
But it just seemed far too straightforward while being confusingly non-linear at the same time. Then again, Carroll is rumoured to have written the whole thing in drug-induced delirium, so maybe it's stupid trying to make any sense of it. I just expected more oomph from Burton, and maybe a heartrending twist somewhere.
It felt like the exact sort of movie that too many years of Hollywood teen movies turned me off from, the type starring a pretty face with one expression fixed in a perpetual petulant scowl. Mia Wasikowska's performance as Alice seemed really flat, and she carried off every emotion with the aforementioned expression - she scowls when she's confused, she scowls when she's angry, she scowls when she's reluctant, she scowls when she's aghast, she scowls when she's frightened. She's like the female equivalent of Bleach's Ichigo...she even scowls when she's smiling!
I expected more from other human characters considering they're such big names, but they all seemed a little immemorable. The White Queen was such a bimbo but at least Anne Hathaway was convincingly in character the whole time. I hoped for more from Helena Bonham Carter because I like her a lot, but the Red Queen just...didn't seem convincing. Depp is fun as the Mad Hatter but his mannerisms are getting way too familiar, especially after three movies of intoxicated clumsiness in Pirates of the Caribbean. There seemed a whole lot of Mad Hatter X Alice-ness, so much that I expected him to walk in after the blue butterfly and was flabbergasted that the credits rolled Orz
In the end the characters I found most interesting where the talking animals. Alan Rickman's derisive drawl is so awesome ♥ And I
