Comments on: Alice's Adventures in Neverland

By: Lena_P

Lena_P — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:19 +0000

I’d just like to point out that Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch completely by accident in the original story. In fact, the 1939 film has about as much in common with the original Oz books as does this film with Lewis Carrol’s work, it sounds like. The moral of the story is: Tim Burton’s films usually leave me feeling “meh”. An INCREDIBLY obvious moral, I know, but still I felt the need to spell it out because I am anal.

There’s a part of me that wishes that instead of regurgitating the same, old, fantastic imagery film makers would come up with their own weird crap to turn into a film, but then I remember this movie and think better of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBRxMz1V04

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:33:12 +0000

Well technically, the title of the first story is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and like you say it’s pretty common to combine it with Through the Looking Glass and just call it “Alice in Wonderland.” It is weird that they call it the same as the earlier Disney movie, when it’s not a remake. (But you can tell from just the short bits with young Alice in the new movie, that a Tim Burton version of the original stories would’ve been pretty intolerable).

The part that still bugs me the most is that it got turned into basically every other children’s fantasy story.

By: Jesse billed as Jesse

Jesse billed as Jesse — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:34:07 +0000

The two Alice books are dear favorites of Elena (that’s the missiz).

The cardinal sin of Alice adaptations, in her eyes, is mixing together bits from “Wonderland” and “Looking Glass,” which pretty much everybody does. Of course, this movie isn’t even trying to be an adaptation, it’s pretending to be a continuation, right?

To Elena, each book and all its set-pieces have important thematic unity that makes their parts incompatible. I can’t say
I know them well enough to argue the point.

Personally it bugs me that they’re calling it “Alice in Wonderland” when it isn’t that at all. Ah well, I’m glad the 3D is cool.