Regardless that now not the primary Disney live-action remake of one in every of their animated classics, the truth that 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland” soared previous the billion-dollar mark on the international field workplace is undoubtedly what impressed the corporate to make live-action remakes a significant a part of its portfolio going ahead. Directed via longtime — regardless that it seems that now former, in step with his personal phrases – Disney collaborator Tim Burton, this travel down the rabbit hollow appears to be like, sounds, and feels as though any person had entered “Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland” into an AI movie generator. That is not intended as a praise, via the way in which.
After his preliminary string of successes, Burton’s filmmaking output started to get much more hit and miss across the flip of the millennium, and his “Alice in Wonderland” used to be a leave out so far as critics had been involved. It used to be most commonly praised it for its visuals, however opinions on Rotten Tomatoes did not grasp again, calling the movie generic, joyless, and onerous to sit down thru.
However Burton additionally introduced alongside his trusty muse Johnny Depp, who gave the movie each its funniest and maximum heartfelt moments in his position because the Mad Hatter. Depp’s Mad Hatter may well be the best model of the nature ever placed on display — but if evaluating whole films to one some other, this one does not even deserve to be on the identical tea birthday celebration as Disney’s animated authentic.
