Alice in Wonderland

To me, this is a lousy movie devoid of humor, a pulse, interesting plot or characters.  Johnny Depp phones in an underwritten role for the Mad Hatter.  I didn't much care for Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and that's a big problem for a movie titled "Alice in Wonderland".  Even Helen Bonham Carter as the Red Queen felt like the big headedness of the character got the best of her in this role.  Anne Hathaway as the White Queen was oddly disturbing to me, as she just doesn't look all that great with the white hair and the solid black eyebrows.

Remember those old fashion electric football games where you put your "players" in some formation on either side of the line of scrimmage, and then the playing field vibrates so that the player move in some random manner in the hopes of advancing the player with the football?  There are some scenes in the movie just like that, it felt aimless at times, it was totally a dud of a movie.  I don't know if Tim Burton had too many notes from Disney execs or what, but whatever time and energy they spent on the world building of Wonderland, they did not spend a 1/10 of it on actual story and character building, and it's a lifeless effort, and a disappointing one.

I give it 1 star, or a grade of D.