Nicole and I went to check out Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland this past weekend in 3D. It’s a classic of course so I won’t waste time re-capping it here, though I will say that there are plenty of other incarnations you could visit to get re-acquainted and unfortunately, probably should.
The film doesn’t solely follow Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but rather is an amalgamation of that story and Through the Looking Glass. Normally I’d dock it for not sticking to one or the other, but most re-tellings of the story opt to blend the two rather than explore them individually. Most likely it’s been done this way so often because there’s just enough interesting story progression in each to link together into a movie.
9 is the latest outing from Tim Burton, though he only served as producer with director Shane Acker at the helm. It features an all star cast as well, including Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly and Christopher Plummer all lending their voice talent to this tale of a dead scientist’s last effort to restore the spirit of humanity to a world that is ultimately broken and destroyed by his penultimate creation, AI that has turned on us all. However, can the spirit of humanity imbued within his tiny, sock-puppet like creation, 9, be enough to redeem mankind?