Jul 23 2009
‘Alice in Wonderland’ is Perhaps the Burtonest of All Burton Movies
UPDATE: Thanks asshats at Disney who have pulled nearly every single copy of this trailer from the internet. Here’s a working one, but it doesn’t allow embedding. Why the hell do companies do this? Isn’t the point of a trailer to get the word out and have people get excited for your new movie? What’s the point of pulling all the videos and pissing off a bunch of blogs and their readers?
UPDATE #2: They pulled that one too. But never fear, a non-YouTubed copy exists which I’m pretty sure will stay up. Thanks Iceman!
Yep, that’s the teaser trailer for the new Alice in Wonderland movie. The imagery is cool, but I don’t think it’s particularly well cut together, and doesn’t make for a great trailer.
Yeah, Johnny Depp looks and sounds cool as the mad hatter, and everything else is bonkers due to a hefty helping of CGI, but I don’t know. It reminds me of Burton redoing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Like yeah, it’s a slightly cool exercise to Burton-ize the imagery, making it more terrifying, and to put Johnny Depp in a major role, but it didn’t really add anything in my opinion, making the film spectacularly unmemorable, and I’m feeling Alice might go the same way.
Your thoughts?
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Agree. And I like how you put it: Burton Burton-izes the imagery and kind of neglects all the other aspects of what makes a great film. This was apparent in his remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, whereas Edward Scissorhands, even though it had all the great visuals, was heavy on soul.
I just have to point out that he didn’t remake Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He adapated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the Gene Wilder film was not a only loosely based on the novel. Burton’s remake was incredibly faithful to the book.
Damnit. I called it a remake too. ><
@ Josh
Fair enough, but semantics aside, my point was that Burton’s “version” (is that better?) had very little depth.
“video is no longer available”
Update: “video has been removed by user”
I couldn’t agree more. Why they go around removing the trailer is beyond me.
Found a working one:
http://www.filmofilia.com/2009/07/22/alice-in-wonderland-teaser-trailer/#more-10010
and they wonder why I download movies…..
For those that haven’t seen Avatar in theater, they had a 3D trailer for this…and I have to say it looks totally BA.