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Alice In Wonderland In Demand In Weekend Box Office

March 14th, 2010 By Stuart Heritage

If there are two things guaranteed to get audiences revved up, it’s Robert Pattinson and that nutty girl from Lost.

Remember Me has both. And yet Remember Me has crapped the bed at the weekend box office this week. Alice In Wonderland is still firmly the number one weekend box office movie, with Matt Damon Iraq thriller Green Zone easing itself in at number two. But Remember Me could only manage the lowly fourth place position. Why?

Easy – unless he’s playing a sparkly vampire, nobody cares that much about Robert Pattinson. And, unless she’s hauling about a baby made of an animal skull and a couple of buttons for eyes, nobody cares that much about the nutty girl from Lost. There’s a lesson there – rebrand the movie as Remember My Glittery Torso, Nightmarish Animal Skull Baby in time for the DVD release and you’ll have a hit on your hands.

Alice In Wonderland Eats The Weekend Box Office

March 7th, 2010 By Stuart Heritage

No wonder people are flocking to see Alice In Wonderland – where else would they get to see the dream team of Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp?

Oh, that’s right. Everywhere else. Anyway, why has Alice In Wonderland topped the weekend box office? Early reviews have largely been negative, citing a lazily-defined plot and an over-reliance on computer animated 3D graphics as its main weaknesses, so maybe the reason why it’s done so well is because people keep confusing it with Avatar.

Or maybe it’s top of the weekend box office because everyone thought they were really seeing a film called Alice In Sunderland, and then became disappointed when they were presented with a fantastical fairy tale instead of a grim melodrama about a dirt-covered northerner shuffling around a bleak industrial town eating dead animals off the road for sustenance.

Alice In Wonderland – Movie Review

August 5th, 2012 By David Scarborough

Tim Burton drags us down the rabbit-hole kicking and screaming in this adaptation of the children?s book Alice In Wonderland, managing to take away any of the wonderment that many may have felt for this beloved tale.

You would think that the pairing of Burton with Lewis Carroll‘s famous series would be a film of visual splendour, but Burton?s approach here is to suck any life out of this Wonderland, and many of its inhabitants too. Visually, its reliance on special effects makes this world seem artificial and Burton?s unique aesthetics look uninspired. You never feel that you are walking around this world with Alice and her chums.

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) could do with a lick of life herself, with the standard Burton turn-on for making his leads look like they have an iron deficiency – but Alice matches this with a lack of personality as well. She coasts through the film with this mystical absentness, attributing much of her surroundings to a bad dream and constantly never reacting to the situation with any real conviction. Much of this film rests on her shoulders and it isn't long before the weight has crushed poor Wasikowska.

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August 6th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

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We Ask Geri Halliwell About Her Opinions On Johnny Depp As The Mad Hatter

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Hey Geri Halliwell, what do you think about the new pictures of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s new movie adaptation of Alice In Wonderla… oh.

We’ve made a terrible mistake.

Anne Hathaway Does Alice in Wonderland, Apparently

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

You always know what you’re getting with a new Tim Burton film – Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, resignation that the movie won’t be as good as Edward Scissorhands.

But one thing you you don’t get is big-faced actresses in the middle of slightly humiliating personal meltdowns. Well, you do now, because Anne Hathaway has just signed up to star in Tim Burton’s new adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.

In Alice In Wonderland, Anne Hathaway will play the White Queen – a pretty young woman who looks a bit stupid because her boyfriend pretended to be chums with the Pope to con strangers out of millions of dollars and then ended up in jail because of it. We have no idea why Tim Burton wanted Anne Hathaway for the role.