I remember as a kid excitedly watching 3-D films while wearing ill-fitting cardboard glasses but still becoming immersed in a brand-new world. 3-D is back with box office smashes like “Avatar”, “Up”, and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.” The latest of which is Tim Burton’s adaptation of the childhood classic, “Alice in Wonderland” but this movie may make you reconsider wanting to become part of Alice’s fantasy.

Looking for a wonderland, you won’t find it here. Instead, Burton selected to replace it with Underland. But, that’s not all that is different. This Alice is unlike any that you’ll remember from a bedtime story. She is back as a young woman, no longer the sweet little girl from the classic, and unbeknownst to her heading to her own engagement party. She escapes her fate through a rabbit hole and enters a world filled with talking creatures and more than a few characters from Lewis Carroll’s original tale.

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