![]() ![]() Wasikowska is a golden-haired vision (she looks like a young combination of Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow) of adolescent girl power. So that's what screenwriter Linda Wolverton provided the older Alice - a way to discover her true nature in a mad, mad world. The story does seem, as other critics have suggested, a bit too similar to the search for the One True Ring, but so what? A nearly 20-year-old doesn't need a chess game and nursery rhymes, she needs a purpose to propel her courage. Alice in Wonderland represents her second time to Underland ("Wonderland" is what her silly younger self apparently called it), but she can't remember her earlier adventure. Tim Burton's Alice doesn't have the wide-eyed wonder of the 7-year-old Alice, because well, she's a bit jaded and thinks her adventures in the offbeat land are just part of an elaborate dream from which she'll eventually awaken. While Lewis Carroll purists will scoff at the aging of his curious young protagonist, most movie audiences will enjoy this colorful world. To do the seemingly impossible, Alice must accept that Underland isn't a figment of her imagination and fulfill her destiny. Her new acquaintances, who include a white rabbit (voiced by Stephen Fry), a Mad Hatter ( Johnny Depp), a chain-smoking caterpillar ( Alan Rickman), and roly poly twins Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Matt Lucas), reveal that if she IS the "right" Alice, she's destined to slay the evil Jabberwocky ( Christopher Lee), defeat the bloodthirsty, big-headed Red Queen ( Helena Bonham Carter), and restore the peace-loving White Queen ( Anne Hathaway) to power. ![]() Thirteen years later, a now fatherless 19-year-old Alice finds herself being publicly proposed to until she excuses herself to run away and winds up following a rabbit - you got it - down a hole that leads to Underland, a magical place where she's asked again and again if she's THE Alice. As ALICE IN WONDERLAND opens, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is seven and a half and admits to her father that she thinks she's gone around the bend because she keeps dreaming about falling down a rabbit hole into another world. ![]()
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