I’m not going to be doing another 4 horror films for Halloween, you want a horror show, you can just look at the latest news or your twitter feed for that. I will still be covering season 3 of Stranger Things and have a Halloween special but for the most part, I’m going to be doing something else.
Disney live action remakes have been a part of society since the 101 Dalmatians remake, but it was 2010 with the release of Alice in Wonderland where it was shown they could make big money, resulting in a slew of remakes and oh my god, Disney, make it stop.
I’m not gonna be covering the 101
Dalmatians remake at this time, but I will be covering all the Disney Live
Action remakes of the 2010’s. Oh boy, this is gonna be a rough ride.
We start with… oh f*ck, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. OK, to Burton’s credit, he’s not a bad director. For all the problems I have with the Michael Keaton Batman run, it certainly captured the gothic look I’d expect of a gritty adaptation of the Dark Knight, Beetlejuice was weird but fun and I did like Mrs Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children but oh man is he the wrong choice for this particular aesthetic.
Tim Burton’s style is dark and
gritty. Wonderland is a place of magic, colour and madness, only one of those
really appeals to Burton. As for the original, and I mean the Disney original,
not the book… It’s fine, it’s not really my thing, I prefer a story with a bit
more meat to it, but I understand why that isn’t the case here, unlike some
people, which I’ll get to in a bit. It feels like a 20-minute short, stretched
out to 75 minutes. And if that’s what I think of the original, imagine what I
think of the nearly 2-hour long remake, let’s take a look.
