A young girl when she first visited magical Underland, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is now a teenager with no memory of the place -- except in her dreams. Her life takes a turn for the unexpected when, at a garden party for her fiance and herself, she spots a certain white rabbit and tumbles down a hole after him. Reunited with her friends the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Cheshire Cat and others, Alice learns it is her destiny to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.
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Even after various incarnations – Lewis Carroll's original 19th-century books, several movies, Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," a hipped-out miniseries on Syfy – the story of Alice in Wonderland is best viewed as a series of vivid characters and fragments: the Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse, the journey down the rabbit hole. The images, or more specifically the gifts of imagination, turn out to be more important and indelible than the story. (Full review)