Alice in Wonderland

Burton's visually stunning flick combines Lewis Carroll's novels of Wonderland with his poem "The Jabberwocky" to tell the tale of an older Alice (Wasikowska). Now 19 years old and resisting an arranged marriage to an upper-class twit, Alice flees her engagement party and once again falls down the rabbit hole. She's reunited with her old friends the Mad Hatter (Depp) and the White Queen (Hathaway), as well as her old enemy the Red Queen (Bonham-Carter). The climactic battle scene seems forced and cribbed from other recent fantasy epics, but the characters retain their demented quirkiness. The movie was not actually shot in 3-D, which makes its release in this format (with sub-par results) seem curiouser and curiouser.