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...these films trailed Alice in Wonderland, whose $34.5 million made it the box-office champ for a third straight week. The fanciful collaboration of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp has earned $265 million in North America and an additional $300 million abroad to become the biggest worldwide hit since Avatar, which is still in the top 10 after 14 weeks. (See James Cameron's special effects...
...estimate, with $22.1 million, while The Bounty Hunter was a bit under its forecaste, at $20.7 million. Green Zone actually earned $6.113 million to finish fifth, ahead of She's Out of My League ($5.8 million) and just a few thousand dollars below Repo Men ($6.126 million). Alice in Wonderland was still the big winner, with a $34.2 million final tally...
...into are stocked with all manner of the White Rabbit's mementos; this could be WALL•E's cluttered annex. Alice meets flowers with faces and cruel tongues, frogs that serve as insecure butlers to Iracebeth the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and a more voluptuous picturization of Wonderland - here it's called Underland - than even Carroll could have dreamed. Though the 3-D goggles function almost like sunglasses, filtering out about 20% of the light, Dariusz Wolski's images are luminous and cunning enough to evoke the vivid colors of old Warner Bros. cartoons...
...Wonderland's Joan of Arc Screenwriter Linda Woolverton and Burton made two big changes to the text. One was to transform Carroll's episodic tale into an epic quest, based on the poem "Jabberwocky." Alice must seize the vorpal sword and slay the fearsome Jabberwock. In assuming this challenge, she becomes a female Frodo, Wonderland's Joan of Arc. This twist legitimizes the feature-length running time but also risks turning this jovially anarchic enterprise into your standard action-adventure. The film is better at reveling in eccentricity than at replaying Excalibur. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...superb as a suicidal teen on the HBO series In Treatment, brings a soft-focus regality to her role. Emotionally, though, her Alice is a bright child, a preteen in a late teen's body, as if she had suddenly sprouted by nibbling a magic cake. Her Wonderland dream is an escape from social strictures back to the freedom of childhood, and not imprisonment but liberation...