I never liked the Disney cartoon version. Never. But I loved this one. Though, actually, Disney’s movies aren’t the same as they used to be. They’ve started doing movies that even I would like.
I wanted to see this because Johnny Depp played the Mad Hatter. I love his characters. They’re all either creepy (in a good way, I know, weird), or their weird, or dark and mysterious, or they’re really funny. He did great and was really funny. I loved the weird dance he did at the end. It was just to funny. It must have been a lot of work with digital effects to get his head to spin around and his legs and arms as well.
I noticed that Johnny used some of his Jack Sparrow voice from Pirates of the Caribbean when he was suppose to be very serious. It made the Mad Hatter kind of creepy, but in a good way.
It ended great, as well. Though, I had it stuck in my head she would stay in Wonderland instead of going back home. But, all well.
Plot, taken from Wiki
Troubled by a recurring dream featuring strange creatures, nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska) attends a party at a Victorian estate shortly after the death of her beloved father. She learns that the formal affair is actually an engagement party to eventually wed her into the Ascot family who now own her father’s trading firm. Unsure of how to properly reply to Hamish Ascot’s proposal, Alice runs away and follows the White Rabbit, Nivens McTwisp (voiced by Michael Sheen). She then falls down a rabbit hole into Underland, a bizarre world she previously visited as a child, although she has lost most memory of it and believes what she remembers to have been a dream. It is explained throughout the course of the film that Iracebeth, the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), conquered Underland by stealing the ruling crown from her sister Mirana, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), but Alice will slay the Red Queen’s guardian, the Jabberwocky, on the Frabjous Day using the Vorpal Sword. However, a misunderstanding of words from Absolem the Caterpillar (voiced by Alan Rickman) makes everyone believe that Alice is the wrong one. The forces of the Red Queen attack and capture McTwisp, Uilleam the Dodo (voiced by Michael Gough), and Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), whilst Alice escapes. The Knave of Hearts Ilosovic Stayne (Crispin Glover) informs the Red Queen of Alice’s return; the Red Queen orders Alice’s capture.
Alice is found by Chessur (voiced by Stephen Fry), a grinning cat, who leads her to Tarrant Hightopp, The Hatter (Johnny Depp), March Hare (voiced by Paul Whitehouse) and Mallymkun the Dormouse (voiced by Barbara Windsor). As Stayne searches for Alice, The Hatter flees toward the White Queen’s castle with a shrunken Alice, but he is caught, leaving Alice and his hat behind. A bloodhound named Bayard (voiced by Timothy Spall), who was forced to work for the Red Queen due to his imprisoned family, aids Alice in sneaking into the Red Queen’s castle to rescue The Hatter. McTwisp, now a page for the Red Queen, gives Alice some food which makes her grow to a large size, but she fools the Red Queen into believing she is “Um from Umbridge”, and The Hatter is made the Red Queen’s hat maker. Alice learns that the Vorpal Sword is hidden in the den of the Bandersnatch, whose eye was removed by Mallymkun earlier. The eye is restored by Alice, making the Bandersnatch choose to side with her and escape from the castle with her and Bayard. Chessur saves Tarrant and Mallymkun from execution, and they lead all of the enslaved Underland creatures to flee the Red Queen’s castle. Alice delivers the Vorpal Sword to the White Queen and returns to her normal size, but she remains unsure whether she can kill the Jabberwocky.
Absolem, going into his pupa stage, reminds Alice of her past visit to Underland and gives her the courage and belief to fight the Jabberwocky. On the Frabjous Day, the forces of the White and Red Queens converge on a battlefield to decide the fate of Underland. The White Queen offers her sister a chance for peace one last time, but the Red Queen declines, summoning the Jabberwocky (voiced by Christopher Lee). Alice fights the Jabberwocky and is nearly killed but the Hatter distracts it, starting an all out brawl between the Red and White Queens’ forces. The Hatter fights and overcomes Ilosovic as Alice resumes her battle with the Jabberwocky, climbing onto its back and being thrown into the air, using the height to deliver a slash that beheads the Jabberwocky. Enraged at the death of her pet, the Red Queen demands Alice’s head, but without the Jabberwocky, no one fears her any more and everyone sides with the White Queen. The White Queen regains her crown and then banishes her sister and Stayne to the outlands forever. Alice returns home by drinking the blood of the Jabberwocky. She then refuses Hamish’s proposal and becomes an apprentice for Hamish’s father with the idea of beginning trade routes with China. The film ends with Alice sailing away on a ship with Absolem, now as a butterfly, fluttering off and away from her shoulder.
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