You're telling me there was never a thread on
Alice?? MMM thread, we have a love/hate relationship for sure.
I'll go back and read your posts in a minute.
SPOILERS, of course, it's an old film already, and I'm not using tags.
I loved the whole beginning and a good third of the Wonderland part, but then it lost me. The affronts piled up and the comparisons to Harry Potter and LoTR piled up and the seriousness piled up and the fun leaked out the bottom.
Quick rants:
Mad Hatter as love interest, Scottish warrior? No thanks.
Story entirely too straightforward and fate-laden. I know Carroll included fated requirements of Alice but nothing as huge as this. I think they were going for the storybook fate concept, as in Humpty Dumpty having to fall off the wall, etc, but it just didn't read that way. The desperation of the characters was depressing and the demands of Alice didn't feel like destiny. I got extra mad when the White Queen said it was "her choice", riiight.
Hard to understand even harder to remember names made up for the characters, as well as similarly lame place names - wtf?
Recharacterization of White Queen and especially the Dormouse as Reepicheep, wtf?
Effects made me feel like I could see the green screen, though that may be the actress' fault.
I swear, I was totally on board for the longest time but it totally lost me.
Ok, yeah, enough.