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In this latest collaboration between
director Tim Burton, his muse Johnny Depp, and his wife Helena Bonham Carter,
Alice is now a 19-year old woman who stumbles back into Wonderland and is thrust
into a war between the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and the White Queen
(Anne Hathaway).
Cosmique Movie Nominations
- Nomination ballots will be released in January 2010.
Reviews from Cosmo Voters:
There are many things about this latest
Tim Burton film that are brilliant. The film is truly a visual feast,
sumptuous to the eyes, and had it been released ten years ago it would have
been hailed as a masterpiece. But the visual effects are no longer enough to
sustain a film for audiences already exposed to films like "The
Lord of the Rings" and "Avatar," and the movie sadly falls short in
other key elements. The script does provide a much-need plot and structure
absent from Lewis Carroll's original "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the
Looking Glass" stories, which were part of a genre called
literary nonsense in which characters traipsed from adventure to
adventure without rhyme or reason. But while the plot -- the conflict
between the White Queen deposed by her sister, the Red Queen -- is engaging,
it is nevertheless overly long and sags a bit. Johnny Depp, a perennial
favorite among Cosmo voters, doesn't bring enough "newness" to the role of
the Mad Hatter to sufficiently distinguish it from many of his other wacky
roles. Anne Hathaway, an actress we've adored in "Ella
Enchanted" and "Brokeback
Mountain," is delightful as the White Queen, but her deliberately
overly-theatrical mannerisms eventually become a little annoying. The other
actors are all fine (Alan Rickman's voice could seduce me simply reading the
phone book), but two stood out for me. The first Stephen Fry as the Cheshire
Cat. Oh, sure, I've always had a fondness for that character, but there was
something indescribable about Fry's portrayal that was so delightful. (And
it's not because I love Fry, which I do; I didn't recognize his voice and
had to look up the credits on IMDB afterwards.) And the second, and most
important, was Helena Bonham Carter, who was spot-on brilliant as the Red
Queen. She will certainly make my list for Best Villain of 2010, and quite
possibly make my list for other acting categories as well.
My grade: B
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