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hyped garbage

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

We have been watching the movie for an hour, and right now we are contemplating suicide... we also rented a ratty horror movie about school girls using chainsaws, and we can't freaking wait to put that on. This was the worst experience of my life, and we are fast-forwarding it to the end... send me four dollars instead of renting this. Do I seriously need 10 lines of text to post?? There is nothing else to say about the worst experience of my life... if you want to see Alice Through the Looking Glass, rent the 1985 version, it is actually good and scary... Kate Beckinsale, what are you doing with your life?? I want to make your babies...

A. The Jabberwock was terribly translated to screen. Granted none of it followed Tenniel, but the Jabberwock was poorly done and could have been scarier if it were somewhat like in the book.B. I was looking forward to a Lion and the Unicorn scene to make up for what the show lacked and was disappointed to see just a brief mention of it on a newspaper page. Instead they made up for the time to do the Wasp. To give some background on the Wasp for those that have seen it and don't understand, Tenniel gave his advice to Carroll to ditch that entire part. Tenniel couldn't translate him into a picture and said it was a waste of time. Though it is in a very old issue of The Smithsonian.So why did they replace the best part of Alice with that?Overall, I'm disappointed and though, yes, the colors and the scenery and even the film variations were well done, it was a terrible translation.

I only had a passing familiarity with the works of Lewis Carroll, (I had a children's book of Alice in Wonderland and gave a reading of Jabberwocky for my tenth grade English class) so I couldn't comment very authoritatively on the literary significance of this movie. I can say I thought some of the readings were very good...Humpty-Dumpty and the White Knight for instance. But I especially liked Kate Beckinsale's performance. She is very beautiful and talented, and by herself would make the picture worth watching.

I really enjoyed this adaptation. It was far and above better than Disney's attempt to turn what is already a children's book into a 'kiddie' film. It was, with very few exceptions, very true to the book, despite the difficulties associated with converting Carroll's unique style to a screenplay.Something I've always felt critical to adapting both Alice stories is her precocious nature. There is truly no way a child actor could handle the scope of Alice in any film. I thought moving the story to an older Alice was wonderful. And Kate Beckinsale's performance in that capacity was outstanding. She brought to life the very childlike innocence and naivete of Alice while dealing so very well with interpreting Alice's very opinionated, stubborn and whimsical personality. And visually, she fit the role perfectly. :-)The quirky nature and self-interpretation in this film is a wonderful way to introduce children to a complex and bizarre children's story. I can only hope that it will be available on DVD someday.