Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland gets a second trailer.

This may be the first Tim Burton movie that I'm not all that interested in. While the film looks colorful and visually delicious, the plot seems to be some kind of mix of Alice in Wonderland, Return to Oz, and The Lord of the Rings. Gosh, how I wish he would try an original story before he retires. And once again, is there a reason why Disney is marketing this thing as exclusively a Johnny Depp vehicle? Considering the cast contains Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, Crispen Glover, and Helen Bonham Carter, you'd think Disney would make that more known? Back in my day (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow), Burton had to all but beg the studios to let him cast Johnny Depp in his pictures, and the marketing departments didn't exactly delight in building a star-driven campaign around this alleged box-office poison. Oh well, I'm sure the picture will look lovely in IMAX 3D, but I suppose hoping for a good movie might be too much at this point.

Scott Mendelson