# Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182 "2008-05-22T01:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/101 "2009-07-23T14:19:05Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > And yet, there really hasn’t been a good Alice movie. I can’t wait for Burton’s take. Not only has there been a good Alice movie, it was made by the same company that is making this one. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/102 "2009-07-23T17:56:52Z")
> [@CyclopticXander](#): > > Darnit I want to see this trailer. > > Can someone explain to me why Disney is so determined to make sure I don’t see an advertisement for their movie? They’ve got a stranglehold on their properties and exert extremely strict control over use of it; such use has to be officially sanctioned. A friend of mine who works for their corporate legal dept. (which is most likely the entity that took the trailer down) admits this. Evidently, their copyrights extend for all eternity. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/103 "2009-07-23T18:21:30Z")
I found the trailer here. [http://preparetoenteraworldofpain.com/alice-in-wonderland-trailer-leaked/](http://preparetoenteraworldofpain.com/alice-in-wonderland-trailer-leaked/) I think it looks great and I am excited for it to come out. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/104 "2009-07-23T18:34:06Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I found the trailer here. > > [http://preparetoenteraworldofpain.com/alice-in-wonderland-trailer-leaked/](http://preparetoenteraworldofpain.com/alice-in-wonderland-trailer-leaked/) > > I think it looks great and I am excited for it to come out. Thanks! Looks like fun. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/105 "2009-07-23T23:17:06Z")
The preview looks so. fucked. up. LOVE IT! Watching it, I was thinking I would love to see an interpretation of Alice in Wonderland done by Guillermo del Toro. I’m sure it’d be gorgeous. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/106 "2009-07-24T04:42:52Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Not only has there been a good Alice movie, it was made by the same company that is making this one. Disney? I always find myself somewhat disappointed when watching that one. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/107 "2009-07-24T04:53:04Z")
From what I saw in the trailer the movie is going to be “The Mad Hatter and some girl”. The Cheshire cat looks like a child molester on crack (not a Burton fan) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/108 "2009-07-24T05:07:13Z")
Full scale official versions of the teaser [here](http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=39384). Wow, it looks spectacular! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/109 "2009-07-24T15:51:23Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Not only has there been a good Alice movie, it was made by the same company that is making this one. A terrible adaptation; bleargh. cf: > [@Lewis Carroll](#): > > Hatter: “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works.” > March Hare: “It was the best butter.” > [@Walt Disney](#): > > Hatter bounces up and down like an idiot, spooning butter, jam, marmalade, mustard, and mayonnaise into a watch. It’s the same thing, you see - except there’s no _joke_ in Disney’s version. Repeat for every thing that was clever about the books, until you want to kill yourself. _Go Disney!_ ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/110 "2009-07-31T16:48:58Z")
Saw some video from ComicCon of the film, and it looks astonishing! Personally, I’ve never been impressed with any of the adaptations of “Alice” that I’ve seen (though admittedly I’ve not seen all of them). But none of them seemed to capture the wit, the charm and the madness of the book. And it seems like Tim Burton might well be able to do it, that this is what his career has been leading up to. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/111 "2010-03-08T17:31:54Z")
I just saw it and from word of mouth I did not expect a lot. Both kids liked it and an overcrowded movie theater on a Sunday afternoon was pretty quiet which means the movie did its job for the kids. There was also a lot of clapping at the end. Now for me, I actually enjoyed it. I liked the Dormouse, I liked the Rabbit and the way it moved, I liked the Cheshire Cat, I liked Alice despite myself though her dressed as Joan of Arc was a little odd, I loved the Caterpillar and I even liked the Mad Hatter. I was not impressed by either Queen and I do not dislike Helena Bonham Carter and I like Anne Hathaway. Crispin Glover was Eh. The movie needed more Alan Rickman in my opinion. The FX were fine. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Truculent\_Gentleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@The\_Truculent\_Gentleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Truculent_Gentleman)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/112 "2010-03-08T18:49:48Z")
Two thumbs down. Also, you could really tell the difference in the 3D - I saw it at the Lincoln Center IMAX in Manhattan (which is a huge huge screen) and the 3D started to ‘flicker’ when you viewed the screen anything other than straight-ahead - which made looking at the outside edge of the screen unpleasant. After seeing Avatar on the same screen, I think you could really tell the difference in the technologies. Addtionally, I found the characters plastic and thin. It felt like a literal translation of the book without any of the spirit. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182/113 "2010-03-10T15:46:36Z")
Slays zombie Alice. Anyone who wants to talk about the movie can open a new thread. … or better yet, [join this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12203861) already in progress. **Ellen Cherry Cafe Society mod** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-2010/450182.md?page=5)