# The official Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland" trailer (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944 "2009-09-29T03:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/21 "2009-09-29T17:55:37Z")
In the posters with Depp, I keep thinking he looks like Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/22 "2009-09-30T06:17:05Z")
I find the way they have Depp made up to be really off-putting, just like in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, which I still haven’t seen. I’m not a big fan of Burton’s films, anyway, so I think I’ll wait until this one is on DVD…unless I get dragged there by someone else. > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I’d rather see the McGee’s Alice movie that is (apparantly…) coming out. Now _that_ I’d pay to see. I wanted to love the game because of what I heard about it being so twisted, but it turns out that I **suck** at the game and got stuck right after the intro (there’s something with tweedle dee and tweedle dum and jumping), so I still haven’t see most of the game. A movie version would let me see without the frustration! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/23 "2009-09-30T08:20:04Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > That wasn’t Joe Dante, that was Chris _Home Alone_ Columbus, and IMHO it was only after they got rid of him did the HP series have some real life breathed into it. Truly. Columbus is a hack. I’m looking forward to Alice. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/24 "2009-09-30T14:32:17Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Didn’t I hear that this is essentially a sequel to the Disney animated Alice? Or did I imagine that? I’ve heard the same. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/25 "2009-09-30T16:59:29Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > In the posters with Depp, I keep thinking he looks like Madonna. Must be the humongous gap in his front teeth. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/26 "2009-12-16T20:40:41Z")
A [new one](http://www.filmdocket.com/2009/12/alice-in-wonderland-gets-a-new-trailer/) is out now. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/27 "2009-12-16T20:54:45Z")
Visually spectacular with some very nice moments of whimsy. But this trailer makes it look like even more of a bastardisation of the source than I’d feared. Just terrible. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/28 "2009-12-16T20:58:30Z")
OH NOES! Someone’s CHANGED something in a 150 year old book. What is the world coming to? Get over yourselves, people. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/29 "2009-12-16T21:13:33Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > OH NOES! Someone’s CHANGED something in a 150 year old book. What is the world coming to? > Get over yourselves, people. Look, I’m usually the first person to point out that films are not books and _adaptations_ need to be written for the medium and not simply be slavishly literal translations. But this strikes me as something else. Carroll’s original stories weren’t about plot or action or weirdness-for-its-own sake – they were about satire, parody and absurdity. This doesn’t look to be an adaptation so much as a new work with only the most superficial relationship to the original. It’d be like making a _Futurama_ movie as a straight action-adventure, thinking that the point was the cool spaceships and exotic aliens. ---
**Author:** ![History\_Mystery\_and\_the\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@History\_Mystery\_and\_the\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Mystery_and_the_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/30 "2009-12-16T22:14:11Z")
I for one like the fact that the movie seems to be just turning the property into a badass action movie. It will be something different, and probably fairly satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944/31 "2009-12-17T00:36:25Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > A [new one](http://www.filmdocket.com/2009/12/alice-in-wonderland-gets-a-new-trailer/) is out now. That one is better, and it does look like this is a sequel to the original. I think it looks great, although I wish he would use someone other than Depp, who I’m tired of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-trailer-spoilers/511944.md?page=1)