You’d think Tim and Alice would be the perfect match. Tim Burton, master of the weird and off-kilter, and Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s dream-like and surreal Victorian masterpiece: an ideal combination, surely?
Yet Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, though dazzling to look at, isn’t quite as wonderful as admirers of both director and book might have hoped.
As it happens, Burton’s 3D movie isn’t exactly an adaptation of Carroll’s book but a sequel which finds the now 19-year-old Alice (played by Australian actress Mia Wasikowska) returning to the fantastical Wonderland – or rather, Underland – after fleeing from a dim toff’s marriage proposal and tumbling down a rabbit hole.
She thinks her memories of previous Wonderland adventures are simply dreams but is soon meeting a number of familiar faces, including the Cheshire Cat (purringly voiced by Stephen Fry), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) and Johnny Depp’s decidedly loopy, white-faced, green-eyed, ginger-haired Mad Hatter.
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