Alice and Hatter reminded me a bit of Buffy and Spike, which I found appealing. The set design kind of creeped me out. I wish they’d done a more steampunk/vintage victorian than Weird Moddish. DEFINITELY not enough Cheshire Cat, although the blink-and-you-missed-it Cheshire effect was the coolest thing in the movie. Would NOT recommend dropping any acid before watching this - you might end up on a ward somewhere (Tweedledee and Tweedledum = ::shudder:: )
I was kind of iffy on the Alice actress, too. She seemed to be too old for as naive as she was supposed to be. Seems like they cast the first buff woman who looked reasonably good in a blue minidress and red tights.
I thought Hatter would have been better cast as the White Rabbit (loved the ponytails, though!) - the actor just has a rabbit-y look about him.