Alice in Wonderland Review..

The film begins with a young Alice complaining to her father about a continuous bad dream. He sends her off to bed. We next see Alice with her mother on the way to a social party in the large Garden of her late father’s boss. She is shown as the rebellious, easily-distracted young lady, who is being wooed by the rich son of her father’s boss. He asks her to marry him, and she runs away, following the white rabbit she’d seen in her dream. After following it down the Rabbit’s hole, she enters wonderland after the shrinking/growing scenario. We meet the characters in the next half an hour, where we are made aware of the apparent feud between the Red Queen and the White Queen, two sisters. Alice must follow her path to free the Mad Hatter and to slay the Jabberwocky, as it is fortold by the Catterpillar. The adventure takes Alice from the castle of the Red Queen, to the castle of the White Queen, and finally to a chess board like battlefield. Alice kills the Jabberwocky and the Red Queen loses power over Underland. The White Queen is granted power and sends the Red Queen to be all alone, with no-one’s company apart from her lover’s, who hates her.

The film, as a Tim Burton film, was outstanding! The cinematography was perfect, the soundtrack, unsurprisingly done by Danny Elfman complimented the film beautifully. With an all star cast (including: Helena Bonham Carter; Johnny Depp; Alan Rickman; Timothy Spall; Christopher Lee; Anne Hathaway and Barbera Windsor) the film had high expectations, and i feel the film has succeeded in fulfilling this expectation. On the whole, really good film, especially in 3d!

Watchmen Review…

We see, during the opening credits, the history of a group of vigilante “heroes” named the Watchmen. However, they are picked off, one by one, by society until there are only a few left. They soon give up after becoming people running around in masks. We see, throughout the next 20-30 minutes, how the remaining heroes are getting on with their lives, and “Nite Owl” and the “silk spectre”  meet. “Silk Spectre” is in a long term relationship with “Dr. Jon Osterman”, better known as Doctor Manhattan, a man capable of near enough anything, but due to a scientific mishap, is blue and has the ablity to change the size of himself. ”Silk Spectre” and “Nite Owl” begin to bring back the Watchmen, and in doing so create a close relationship. In a short space of time, their close relationship turns sexual, even though “Silk Spectre” and Doctor Manhattan. They soon meet “Rorschach”, another watchman. We follow the three through an investigative adventure leading them through a prison all the way to the south pole where the three remaining watchmen must defeat “Ozymandias”, an ex watchman who is the cleverest man in the world. They defeat the man who thinks himself a god or king alongside Rameses and other egyptian kings. They defeat him and all live happily ever after, the end.

This film was really good. i really enjoyed watching it, but would wait a while before watching it again. I couldn’t help but feel that any film with blue characters (Doctor Manhattan) such as Avatar and Braveheart have had very good receptions and both of these films won Oscars for Best Film, all i could think about this film was ”is this film worthy of an oscar?” It dragged on a little bit. at 2 and a half hours long, certain parts of the film that lacked action seemed tedious, and as it was the first time i’d seen the film – not such a good thing. on the whole, i found the film action packed, funny at times but also covering contemporary moral issues all the while.