On Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Reviewed by John David Ebert
(thoughts by John Lobell under Comments)
Tim Burton’s films are generally uneven in quality, and lately, they have not been particularly good. When we think of Sweeney Todd or Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow or Planet of the Apes, we are presented with celluloid spectacles filled with remarkable and even memorable cinematic imagery, but which are generally mediocre products marred by humdrum screenwriting. Burton suffers from the same problem as a number of other visually-talented directors who are not very good at judging the quality of screenplays. Ridley Scott comes to mind; as does (the now long since forgotten) Alan Parker; perhaps David Fincher is a better recent example. Read the rest of this entry »
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