Alice in the Wonderland

However, I have a much more critical opinion. I, unlike probably 75% of the people who went to see this movie, read Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Out of the 75% who haven't read the actual book 50% have seen the disney movie and believe they know the whole story. Kind of sad really.

Lewis Caroll's original novels, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (the sequel, which I'm sure not a lot of people even know there's a sequel to the book) were amazing. They were surreal, they were strange, they didn't make sense at all upfront! If you read either book you'd understand that there is no real PLOT. It was about a girl that was dreaming. She didn't go there and get presented with "Ok, you're here, you need to fight the dragon and free us." No. In this movie adaptation there was a plot. The plot was "Help us fight the red queen and her jabberwocky and free us." Essentially. Now, you see why, when compared to the book, it sucks. In essence this was NOT like Alices Adventures in Wonderland at all. Lewis Carol would be turning in his grave if he knew this carried his characters and ideas. Again, it just wasn't really in the spirit of the book. And a lot of people believe it was... but it wasn't. Plain and simply I understood about 95% of everything that happened in the movie. When I read the book 95% of everything didn't make sense. Simply put. When compared to the spirit of the novel I can't give the movie more than a 3/10.

You want to see a good "spiritual predecessor" to Alices Adventures in Wonderland, there's an independent film called... "Alice" I think that's very creepy, and very weird. The filming isn't very good, its and indie, what do you expect, but it's a lot more true to the style. It focuses on Alice and going to Wonderland but the characters are basically dead animals that are stuffed. O.O creepy. Tideland is also another good movie that's surreal. And tideland is moreso because it doesn't really have a true plot either, but that doesn't mean there isn't any meaning in it.