Alice in Wonderland (2010)

19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Director:

Tim Burton

Writers:

Linda Woolverton (screenplay), Lewis Carroll (books)

Stars:

Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter

Won 2 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 42 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Johnny Depp	...	Mad Hatter
Mia Wasikowska	...	Alice Kingsleigh
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Red Queen
Anne Hathaway	...	White Queen
Crispin Glover	...	Stayne - Knave of Hearts
Matt Lucas	...	Tweedledee / Tweedledum
Michael Sheen	...	White Rabbit (voice)
Stephen Fry	...	Cheshire Cat (voice)
Alan Rickman	...	Blue Caterpillar (voice)
Barbara Windsor	...	Dormouse (voice)
Paul Whitehouse	...	March Hare (voice)
Timothy Spall	...	Bayard (voice)
Marton Csokas	...	Charles Kingsleigh
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Lord Ascot
John Surman	...	Colleague #1

Storyline

Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called "Underland," she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason--to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.

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Plot Keywords:

queen | animal | talking animal | destiny | jabberwocky | 

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Taglines:

The White Rabbit

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Genres:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar

Details

Official Sites:

Disney [de] Disney [fr]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Alice in Wonderland: An IMAX 3D Experience

Filming Locations:

Antony House, Torpoint, Cornwall, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$200,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£10,555,220 (UK) (5 March 2010)

Gross:

$334,185,206 (USA) (2 July 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Roth Films, Team Todd

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES Dolby Digital EX SDDS Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Actress Mia Wasikowska beat out several candidates for the role of Alice, including Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan, who lobbied for the role.

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Goofs

After riding Bayard to the Red Queen's castle, Alice has to jump onto floating stone faces to get over the moat. On her final jump, there are several faces left to get to the other end, yet after jumping she ends up on solid ground on the other end.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Lord Ascot: Charles, you have lost your senses? This picture is impossible.
Charles Kingsleigh: Precisely. Gentlemen, the only way to achieve the impossible, is to believe it's possible.

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Crazy Credits

The ending credits have flowers going from dead to blooming, a sun rising and setting, and vines moving around.

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Connections

Version of Alice in Wonderland (1966)

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Soundtracks

"Painting Flowers"
Written by Alex Gaskarth
Performed by All Time Low

User Reviews

Tim's Ego

And yet again Tim Burton's ego gets in the way as it did with Willy Wonka seriously thinking that he can improve an age old classic by replacing what he refers to as a mere series of events a little girl stumbles through, with a trite paint by numbers good versus evil story a la: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Golden Compass. He leaves out the magic of the books, the cutting wit, the Topsy turvy absurdity which make the stories so special and a little girl called Alice who's precocious cleverness is way beyond her years. It is not about stifling a director's artistic vision (which every artist has a right to) or reworking of the story but the mere greed and egotistical ambitiousness with which he went after this project, clearly to fatten his pockets. Poor Lewis Carrol is rolling in his grave.