It should be. Everyone says that Burton was born to make this film. But I reckon Alice in Wonderland is more suited to Terry Gilliam. The former Python has a passion for the whimsical, for doggerel, nonsense verse and the phantasmagorical. He’s a sentimental surrealist, a romantic anarchist who often places a whoopee cushion beneath the Victorian belief in reason and progress. Burton is more a gothic kind of guy who sees the sunny side of the dark side.
Alice's broad appeal has inspired fans from Avril Lavigne to Stella McCartney to create signature pieces as an ode to the iconic tale. Couture styles, charm bracelets, and designer collectibles like tea sets, are just some of the items that have been designed for Disney.
"It really helps us reach a whole other consumer, someone with much more discerning or sophisticated tastes," explained Nidia Tatalovich of Disney Consumer Products.
Burton's new movie features a 19 year-old Alice who's forgotten all about the Wonderland (or Underland, as Burton rechristens it) of her childhood, preparing for her engagement to a wealthy young lord. Panicking at the moment of truth, Alice flees into the woods, falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in a strange world that remembers her, even if she doesn't remember it. A prophetic scroll reveals that Alice is fated to become the savior of Underland, slaying a terrible beast of legend and freeing the land of the Red Queen's tyranny.
A little Background:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.
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The bottom line for this movie is that critics are half and half. Half liked it, half think it lacks something. In rotten tomatoes, it has received a score of 61% which is a bit low from everyone else’s expectations. Good or bad reviews, people will still watch this movie. Like the famous quote in the movie “curiouser and curiouser,” we all are just as curious on how the movie will go.
Looks like the current March opening weekend box-office record of $70.8 million, set by 300 back in 2007 is going to go down and go down big as Disney's Alice in Wonderland could surpass that number on Saturday night with a monster $41 million opening on Friday according to Box-Office Mojo. Just one more film taking advantage of the fact 3D ticket prices turn a film into a box-office juggernaut.
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