Alice in Wonderland

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010) - Mar. 19, 2010
A surprisingly dull and boring film about Alice's return to Wonderland as a young adult, where she finds the place in turmoil and run by an evil queen.  Featuring Tim Burton's standard quirky visual style, which has long since lost its ability to dazzle or impress (and combined with the drab, grayish colour palette, is actually kind of a bore), the film does a really terrible job of making us care about the plight of the citizens of Wonderland, or even about Alice herself.  It all feels kind of slipshod, like a random assortment of scenes in which the quirky characters get to be quirky, but in which not all that much of interest happens.  It doesn't help that Alice herself is really not an interesting character -- she spends most of the movie stumbling around looking bewildered and repeating that she expects to wake up at any moment.  The characters she's surrounded with don't fare much better.  I really couldn't have cared less about Alice's quest or about the fate of the citizens of Wonderland, which meant that the movie was kind of a drag.  Tim Burton, what happened to you?  Also: I hate 3D so much.  *1/2