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Alice in Wonderland [DVD] [2010]

Alice in Wonderland [DVD] [2010]

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Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Seller: encorerecords
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars reviews
Sales Rank: 50

Format: Anamorphic, Colour, PAL, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Audio Description)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 8717418256029
ASIN: B0033WRUN2

Theatrical Release Date: 2010
Release Date: June 4, 2010
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The marriage of director Tim Burton with the darker edges of the Alice In Wonderland story seems, on paper, to be an impressive match. And to a point, it is: Burton’s film explodes with colour and style, bringing a real sense of imagination to the classic Lewis Carroll stories. Alice In Wonderland isn’t perfect, though. It’s, at heart, far more conventional than you may be expecting, and the beefing up of the Mad Hatter’s role to accommodate the casting of Johnny Depp is problematic. That said, Depp’s performance is fine, even if it’s Helena Bonham-Carter who steals every scene she’s in. And Burton also wisely casts a strong supporting cast of British thespians, who don’t get enough screen time, but make the most of what they get. The end result, however, is a fun telling of an engaging story. And while Tim Burton’s take on Alice In Wonderland is far from the best filmed take on the source material, it’s nonetheless a solid family movie. It also looks stunning on Blu-ray. The colourful production design comes across wonderfully well, in vibrant 1080p, and the enveloping sound mix matches it too. And given how often the film is likely to be re-spun over the years, it’s easily the best way to own the film. --Jon Foster

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2 out of 5 stars Not for everyone..   June 10, 2010
RW (Uk)
30 out of 38 found this review helpful

My expectations were high. Too high perhaps. That much is true. ..But as a fan of Tim Burton and someone who thoroughly enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I feel as though my expectations were justified.
The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp mixing pot is something that so consistently delivers quality cinema. Alice in Wonderland it seems though, is the exception to this rule.
The original book is of course enchanting, the yester-year Disney cinema offering is magical, but this new fangled all singing all dancing affair just doesn't cut it.
It's a big long gimmick really. The special effects are very good, that can't be denied by anyone - the boffins and geeks who were in-charge of the cgi deserve high praise indeed. And furthermore, the actors play their parts flawlessly. It's a well crafted movie, expertly put together by a veteran film maker.
But it lacks any real magic. It's just TOO polished. Too slick, too perfect, too shiny. It has no character, no depth, no soul. And much like so many recent modern movies, it feels like a technical exercise rather than a piece of story telling.

In summary, this is not for me. It's sugar-coated entertainment for the masses. This type of film-making clearly has an audience, but sadly I'm not part of it. I prefer my cinema with a few less bells and whistles.


5 out of 5 stars Darkly brilliant sequel to Lewis Carroll's original stories   June 6, 2010
Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK)
39 out of 54 found this review helpful

A clever family film in which the 19-year old Alice returns to the magical world which she had originally visited at the age of six but had convinced herself was just a dream.

This is a "marmite" film e.g. one that some people love and a significant number of other people really hate. I was one of the people who loved it.

The story fuses elements of Lewis Carroll's original books "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice through the looking glass," particularly the poem "Jabberwocky." It is more of a sequel than a re-interpretation though there are elements of both.

This film is significantly darker in tone than, say, the classic Disney film or even the original books, and I would not recommend this for a very young child who might find certain scenes frightening. However, my two eight-year-olds enjoyed the film and had little difficulty with it (they hid their eyes or behind mummy once or twice). The story appears to be at least as much intended for the adult members of the family as for the children, and the saccharine sweetness of most interpretations of the Wonderland story are almost wholly absent.

In places this film is very funny, exquisitely beautiful, or very exciting, and often several of those things at once. The first thing which makes it fun is the many excellent performances by the star-studded cast.

Mia Wasikowska is delightful as the 19-year old Alice, and Johnny Depp suitably manic as the Mad Hatter. He plays this role in an entertainingly zany and unpredictable way, most of which worked for me, though some aspects of the performance - the way he unpredictably turns on and off a strong Scots accent, for instance - may not work for everyone.

The villain of the piece is an evil queen played by Helena Bonham Carter. In terms of Lewis Carroll's books, this character is an amalgamation of the Queen of Hearts from "Alice in Wonderland" with the Red Queen from "Alice through the looking glass." In terms of how Helena Bonham Carter plays the Red Queen, her mannerisms, style, childishly imperious arrogance, self-centred megalomania, impulsiveness, and even her tone of voice are quite blatantly derived from Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Miranda Richardson in the second series of Blackadder (link: Blackadder 2 - The Entire Second Series [1986] [DVD]). For me this works brilliantly, though I can see why some people, especially those who never saw Blackadder or didn't like it, may not get the joke.

Crispin Glover is amusing as the Red Queen's evil henchman Stayne (the Knave of hearts).

The Red Queen's sister and antithesis (the White queen), is played by Anne Hathaway, who comes over as irritatingly goody-goody: I think this was meant to be quite deliberate.

Much of the show is stolen by the CGI characters, particularly the Cheshire Cat (voiced by Stephen Fry), Absalom the blue caterpillar (voiced by Alan Rickman,) and the Dormouse (voiced by Barabara Windsor). Where in the books and the first film the Dormouse is a soporific character, in this film she comes over as Reepicheep on steroids. The Jabberwocky is a looming threat for most of the film but when it finally appears for the climax, a combination of superb special effects and a marvellously threatening voice provided by Christopher Lee make the beast magnificently scary.

Other cast members worth a mention include Tim Piggott Smith who has a charming cameo as Lord Ascott, the business partner of Alice's father: Geraldine James as his ghastly wife who wants Alice to marry their equally ghastly son Hamish (Leo Bill), and Tim Spall as the voice of a bloodbound called Bayard.

The artwork was stunning: in places "Underland" is incredibly beautiful, in other places it looks ruined and devastated for reasons which soon become obvious but which I don't want to spoil the story by giving away. Several creatures which are just names in the books - the frumious bandersnatch, for instance - are brought magnificently to life by CGI in this film.

(The original manuscript which Lewis Carroll gave to Alice Liddell was called "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" and the name "Wonderland" was only added when the book was subsequently published. In the film the characters refer to the magic realm where most of the action takes place as "Underland" and one of them suggests light-heartedly that the six-year-old Alice had misheard the name as "Wonderland.")

These days the viewer is used to films with special effects of such a high quality that we tend to take them for granted, but the special effects were particularly brilliant in this film. The manner in which Alice is seen to grow to much above her normal size or shrink to be far smaller, the manner in which the Red Queen's soldiers look like playing cards while those of the White queen look like chess pieces, the ruined landscape of Underland, and particularly the way the Cheshire Cat fades into and out of existence, all made impossible things look as real as you could hope for.

For Lewis Carroll purists: the film clearly comes down on the side of the debate which says that the character of Alice is largely fictional, and not based on the real person (Alice Liddell, later Alice Hargreaves) for whom the story was written. Towards the end of the film Alice gives her surname as Kingsley, and her father had been a businessman with ambitions to set up a trade route to the Far East. In real life, Alice Liddell's father was Headmaster of Westminster School when she was born and shortly thereafter became Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. It was at that time that the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll's real name) became a friend of the Liddell family.

Overall I think this is the best Tim Burton film I have seen.


4 out of 5 stars Vorpal!   June 22, 2010
DB (Ireland)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful

I remember watching the 1966 Jonathan Miller ádaptation as a kid and taking a disapproving puerile attitude because it wasn't sufficiently faithful to the text. A few years later on I thought it was brilliant. It strikes me that many of the negative reviews of the Tim Burton are similarly puerile - criticising it for not being what they were expecting, rather than judging it on its own terms.

Burton's Underland contains references to other classical imaginary countries: Middle Earth (Christopher Lee as The Jabberwock, although the links are closer to the Witch King than Saruman), Narnia (turning the dormouse into Reepicheep), "The Water Babies" (Alice's surname in the film is Kingsleigh - homophonic with Kingsley) and Oz (with Anne Hathaway's rather uncomfortable witchlike White Queen reminiscent of the Good Queen of the North, even if she looks more like Narnia's White Witch). And like all four the story contains a moral imperative missing from Carroll's book. Here Alice needs to find a balance between establishing her freedom from social pressures and supposed destiny and doing her bit for the good guys in the film.

An excellent, funny film with frabjous visuals.



2 out of 5 stars Dark - and in not in a spooky way.   August 13, 2010
katrina_marina
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Even adjusting the contrast and the brightness controls will not illuminate this film. OK it's supposed to be under ground, but I can't help thinking this was a mistake, and why couldn't it have been corrected since it was largely green screen behind the characters? Is it just me or is anyone else a tad weary of Mr Depp, H. Bonham-Carter in the same movie - but great effort at being mad, both actors.
At one point I thought I was watching the last battle-scene from The Return of The King, Lord of the Rings. I didn't enjoy it. I found it annoying because I couldn't see it most of the time.


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