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In Disney’s animated version of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, Alice constantly described Wonderland as nonsense. Tim Burton’s rendition combines Carroll’s two Alice books and makes nonsense of them booth. But when I say nonsense I mean pointless.

In this version, Alice (Mia Wasikowska, AMELIA) is a 19-year-old who is about to be married off to the boorish Lord Ascot (Tim Pigott-Smith, QUANTUM OF SOLACE). To escape his very public proposal, she runs off into the woods where she follows a white rabbit in a waistcoat (Michael Sheen, THE QUEEN) down a rabbit hole. The White Rabbit and others believe she has been to their land before, but she doesn’t believe them. The Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman, SWEENEY TODD) tells her that she is hardly the Alice they were looking to slay the Jabberwocky, a fire-eyed dragon.
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