There were a lot of reviews out there trashing this version of “Alice” which I admittedly didn’t read before attending the movie.. I like to make my own assumptions. I’m a long time ‘Alice in Wonderland’ fan (I’m totally blaming this on hearing Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ one too many times as a child) so seeing some of my favorite literary characters on an adventure makes me very happy.. regardless of what sort of adventure it is.  I should mention that I also really enjoyed the SyFy Channel  version of ‘Alice’ that was put out at the beginning of this year in all of its steampunk/post apocalyptic oddness. (I especially loved ‘The Hatter” in that one.. rawr.)

My only black mark on my viewing experience (besides the hateful little buggers that were seated in front of my friend & I who decided to pass food back and forth and talk loudly for the entire movie…..) was that I expected it to be a bit darker.  I didn’t realize that it wasn’t Tim Burton’s screenplay until I read a review after the movie.. so that sort of explains my only disappointment in the lack of crazy-mad, melancholy, tortured, gothic sort of characters that I expect from a Burton film.  Johnny Depp was awesome as usual and really made the Mad Hatter his own creation — though I could have really done without the dancing.

(Sorry this took so long to post.. I’ve had a terrible and unexplainable migraine headache on and off all week which has made me avoid bright lights & retreat to the darkness of the bedroom like some sort of silent film Nosferatu.)