I've discovered since posting the above that most critics appear to hate the film -- my favorite of their comments so far has been "Pretty on the outside, but soulless on the inside. Like Ann Coulter, if Ann Coulter was pretty on the outside." The biggest complaint seems to be that it replaces the math/social parody logic of the original with the logic of a quest/action-adventure film. Yeah, that's more or less true. But it's still a good quest film. It might help if you think of the original Alice books as being the muddled recollections of a confused 6-year-old who finds herself in an alien world for a short time, and this film as what the adult version of that girl discovers is really going on when she returns.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.