Alice in Wonderland
Posted on February 27, 2010
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Alice in Wonderland is packed with famous faces. Johnny Depp, who was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pirates of the Carribbean films plays the Mad Hatter. Helena Bonham Carter from the Harry Potter films plays the Red Queen and Matt Lucas plays both Tweedledum and Tweedledee! Alice in Wonderland is set in Victorian times where 19-year-old Alice is bored of her life and longs to escape. Her wish comes true when she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a magical world called Underland that she dreamt of as a child. Alice meets weird and wonderful characters such as a rabbit in a waistcoat, a mad Hatter and a blue caterpillar! Armed with a smartly reshaped but still reverential script by Linda Woolverton (“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King”), Burton has delivered a subversively witty, brilliantly cast, whimsically appointed dazzler that also manages to hit all the emotionally satisfying marks.
No longer a wide-eyed child, Alice Kingsleigh (a pitch-perfect Mia Wasikowska) is now an easily distracted 19-year-old who seems hopelessly out of sync with her muted Victorian surroundings. But before she’s able to get back in touch with her “muchness,” she’ll bond with a mercury-poisoned Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp, in another blissfully out-there tragicomic performance) and butt heads with the tyrannical Iracebeth (a never-better Helena Bonham Carter, who is an absolute scream of a Red Queen). 
As Alice is introduced to a selection of quirky characters; Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Lucas), Dormouse (Windsor), the Blue Caterpillar (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry), and the Mad Hatter (Depp), she soon realises the world she has dreamt of is not a figment of her imagination at all. With the help of her childhood friends, Alice must fight the Red Queen (Bonham Carter) to restore Wonderland’s crown to its rightful owner, the White Queen (Hathaway).
Cast- Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Deppy, Matt Lucas, Barbara Windsor, Alan Rickman
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