Posted on 03/05/2010 6:55:50 AM PST by KippLanham
At last, we have an Alice in Wonderland for these times: Gloria Steinem meets Joan of Arc — with a touch of Carrie Bradshaw.
Tim Burton’s big-budget movie loses touch with a lot of the whimsy from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books in favor of lots of girl-power feminism. That doesn’t ruin the movie, but in a world that’s supposed to grow curioser and curioser, things quickly get conventional and conventionaler.
Read more: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/alice-in-wonderland-full-of-girl-power-feminism/
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As I said in another post: the movie sounds like a visual masterpiece with a pointless and forgettable plot, characters that lack depth, and an experience that does not warrant any of our emotional investment.
Too bad, I was hoping that he could get in touch with the story.
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