急求爱丽丝梦游仙境的英语影评!

急求爱丽丝梦游仙境的英语影评!
急求爱丽丝梦游仙境的英语影评!

急求爱丽丝梦游仙境的英语影评!
Curious,not curiouser
Tim Burton adds extra dimensions to Alice in Wonderland,with mixed results
We know the basic story of Alice.She chases a panicky rabbit down a hole,finds drinks that make her change size,meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar and a Cheshire Cat,crashes a mad tea party,and narrowly misses losing her head to the Queen of Hearts.We know Tim Burton tops the list of any modern filmmaker worthy of tackling the job.We know it isn't enough to adapt a classic children's tale anymore; they must be re-imagined.
But if Burton's phantasmagoric Alice in Wonderland makes anything new clear,it's that presenting films in 3-D is as much of a gimmick as it was in the '50s.Granted,Avatar may have benefited from the vivid otherworldliness possible with a $300 million budget -- for about 10 minutes.Same with Alice,although Burton's flair for art direction gives James Cameron's technical ecstasies more than a run for the money.At least Cameron made things pop (or float) out from the screen.A conscious effort to find the benefits of adding an extra dimension as Alice wears on is fairly fruitless.
The good news is Alice in Wonderland is a lot of fun.Rather than merely leaving her sister to follow the rabbit out of boredom,Burton's Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is a teenage participant in Victorian London society whose life is being planned out for her by her widowed mother and father-in-law to be.Little does she know it,but haughty Lord Hamish (Leo Bill) is about to pop the question,securing a life of stifling boredom for her.But Alice used to have dreams of falling,with white rabbits,smiling cats,and blue caterpillars.When she sees a white rabbit bustling in the bushes,pausing to flash a pocket watch at her,she takes off after it and enters Wonderland.
The introduction to Where the Wild Things Are is similarly re-imagined,but the fun in that movie was seeing how Spike Jones managed to be faithful to Maurice Sendak's illustrations.Burton's team had iconic characters to work with,but had carte blanche to recreate them.Thus Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter becomes a yellow-eyed,gap-toothed maniac with Carrot Top-style hair.Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen has a tiny body and a bulbous head ("Regrettably large," says The Hatter) that pays homage to Bette Davis's Queen Elizabeth.Tweedledum and Tweedledee,both played by Matt Lucas,benefit best from whatever state of the art tech Burton's team employed and provide the most comic relief.
This is Alice's story,however.She follows instructions to drink liquids that make her shrink and grow,constantly hears she's the wrong Alice,is informed she has to wield a magic sword and kill the Jabberwocky (Christopher Lee),and gets hit on by the Red Queen's paramour Stayne (Crispin Glover).Everyone is trying to make her conform in some way,just like back in London.Maybe the film needed extra context to make it cohesively contemporary,but somehow the message takes away from the pure magic.This Alice becomes a kind of Joan of Arc when she finally rises to the occasion,a role model for independence instead of a little girl with a fantastic imagination.Burton's imagination never lets up,though,and while those 3-D effects do seem to fade into the background,you can feed your head on his Wonderland for the entire trip.