Film: Alice in Wonderland

Let me say at the outset that I have seen every version of the story that has been put into film. I even saw the stage play version starring Richard Burton and his daughter. In the stage play, the costumes were in black and white' the effect was graphically charming. The version that included Gene Wilder was amazing as well. Gene's famous "Soup" song, in which he prolonged one word for the longest time ever in a song, was a stroke of theatrical genius. I will always savor that scene.
In this laterst version, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway are the characters Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska, encounters in her revisit to Wonderland.

The film's 3D and Imax presentation were wonderful. I have decided that 3D is definitely here to stay and will only get better in the years ahead. Who knows? One day it will transition into a holographic miracle in which the viewer is actually surrounded by the scene, as if he or she is within the scene. That would be marvelous, wouldn't it?  I found the caterpillar to be a wonderfully played character, even more so thatn the Cheshire Cat. Tweedledee and Tweedledum were great also, as a kind of paired morons. You really must see the movie, if you love fantasy and allegory. The White Queen, with the help of the Mad Hatter and Alice, wins over the domination of the Red Queen in the end and Wonderland is changed into a place of peace and beauty as it should be.