Someday I'd like to live inside Tim Burton's head and make sweet, sweet love to his brain all night long.
Like with his other movies, the world he creates in Alice is fanciful and amazing. The creativity that man exudes is a force to be reckoned with.
But the problem I have with Alice is that I know the story. It is nobody's fault but my own that I prefer to watch movies that are original to me. This is why no movie I have ever seen that is based on a book is EVER better than the book. I mean, sure, Tim Burton has put his own magnificent, glorious spin on the story... but, still, it remains a story that I have seen before.
The Tim Burton movies that I've enjoyed the most are the ones he comes up with himself (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands). Not only does he create the universe that those characters reside in, but he creates the characters as well. That is where he really shines.
