Our snowshoe hare looks much less dithery than either of the cousins. He's dignified and wise looking. and even though his coat is glossy and clean you just know he's seen more than a few moults. He's the kind of hare you'd want as leader in a crisis. In spite of his years you get the feeling he'd stand up to a crafty weasel or even a slobbering dumb-as-a-post hound. A rabbit is a rabbit but a good hare is a potential PM.
As for the movie; it's complicated. But in spite of the complications we are utterly transported to Underland and Through the Looking Glass, led and followed by a spectacular cast of actors and voice-actors.There could have been more of the flamingo-head croquet by some people's reckoning. You just want to hug Tweedledum and Tweedledee before you give them a good smack. The Mad Hatter is just that and delightfully so, in the spirit of Captain Jack, in "Pirates..." and Roux in "Chocolat." Helena Bonham Carter is deliciously evil and spiteful as the Red Queen.Alan Rickman would be a truly authentic hookah-smoking caterpillar of any colour and Stephen Fry was born to smile without a face.
It's difficult not to make comparisons with Avatar but how detailed does a completely fictionalized world have to be before it seems "unrealistic?" That term has been used in reviewing movies in our household ever since one of our children dubbed the all-rolled-up-into-a-ball black little boy who was one of Peter Pan's "Lost Boys" in "Hook" as "unrealistic!" So, you forget about the meticulously rendered fictionalized plants and insects and you think about the story. Alice has the better story - hands down. Alice has more believable characters. Avatar Avarice far outweighs any Alice Avarice. No one should be sorry that Alice beat Avatar last weekend at the box office, least of all James Cameron. It's so unseemly for a Canadian to be so greedy.
Copyright 2010 by the Stargeazer
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