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As always Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland was going to see a lot of Hype, let’s face it, with films such as Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd in your catalogue, it is hard for anyone not to be excited about the latest movie that Burton has been imagined up.

After reading a few of the reviews, I have to say I was slightly disappointed as at the very most I had seen this film coming in at 3 stars from all the big reviewers. Nevertheless I cannot say I am the one for agreeing with the newspapers so I thought I would actually go and see this movie myself.

After the first ten minutes I was not impressed at all, that is until Alice once again found herself falling headfirst into the deepest hole and landing in Burton’s amazing rendition of Wonderland.

The leading lady Mia Wasikowska had no complaints from me as she played an older version of Alice perfectly keeping that innocence that the character is so famous for. As always it would seem Burton spent no expense on the costume creations with each being crazier than the last. The real life acting and animation is seamless and arguably just as good as seen in the blockbuster Avatar.

Although I first thought that Depp would be the favourite character here playing the Mad Hatter who has always been my personal favourite, I was very impressed with Matt Lucas as Tweedle Dee and Dum. However the March Hare had to be my favourite even though he only had a couple of lines which mostly consisted of the word SPOONS!

The only issues I had with the film are really just the beginning and end sequences which are very dull and almost an insult to the usual madness that we are so used to seeing in a Tim Burton film.

Only Burton could make a story such as Alice In Wonderland even stranger than it already is and he does it with his usual dark and mysterious storytelling ability that works even better with something like this. A great movie overall and I would recommend taking the entire family to go and see this.
The verdict- 4/5

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