Have you ever wondered what Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter discuss over dinner? I have. In fact, that's fairly all I wondered about as I sat through Alice in Wonderland
on opening night. Visually stimulating with all of the darkly, quirky details that is quintessential of the eccentric director, I left the theater feeling as though I paid orchestra prices to watch amusing spectators fight in the balcony. Perhaps, it was the gaggle of hipster, teenage girls with black nail polish and lip-rings whining aloud about the lack of testosterone in the audience throughout the duration of the movie that tainted my viewing experience. Perhaps, expectations were too high, even for Johnny Depp (who stretched his long-running pirate accent thin in his crazy rantings as the Mad Hatter). Whatever the case may be, for a film based upon "muchness", there was much to be desired.
(This does not mean that I will not continue to be the first in line for the next Burton production. I'm loyal. What can I say?)
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I wonder what Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter discuss over breakfast, lunch, AND dinner. I wonder what they discuss with their children while they're playing with them at the park. I wonder what they EAT for dinner. I wonder....a lot of things about them.
And did you notice the girl who played 6 year old Alice looked creepily like Helena Bonham Carter? I looked her up, no relation.
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