"The greatest people are mad."
somewhere between those lines. can't rephrase it well.

anyway! no more spoilers ahead, i assure you.

this movie is Tim Burton's take on Lewis Carrol's 'Alice in Wonderland'. it's a mad concoction of two artists'... weirdness. it's so weird that you'll want to know what's next, because it's so unpredictable.

the movie blended together the two novels and tweaked it so it became a whole new story. one thing i notice is that Burton apparently had a color scheme change. it was still bleak but now there were bright pops of color added to it, so it's quite a surprise. oh, and the costumes too, they were lovely. victorian period, i think? it was set in the era of corsets and grand parties. the setting, you should see it! the castle of the white queen is a must-see. the details of the red queen's castle is also impressive. it was, colorful. the change of events was choppy. i didn't know why this scene followed that scene, and the next thing i knew, it was the end. so i was, "what? it's already the end?" but they rounded the story nicely; it's not blunt, neither much of a cliffhanger.

actors. you can never go wrong with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter. aaand Anne Hathaway. you should see how the white queen [Hathaway] walks. it made me walk in that form for a while. Mia Wasikowsa, nothing much to say about her. she's new, good, nice, fine.

today's the start of the official viewing of Alice in Wonderland. it's available in all Philippine theaters. IMAX 3D will only be available in SM City North Edsa. tickets [based on sm] are priced 160+ for digital theater and 350 to 400 for IMAX 3D. i asked the prices on premiere night. i don't know if the price will change for the other days.

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