Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and Stephen Fry. It is an extension of Lewis Carroll’s novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film uses a technique of combining live action and animation.

In the film, Alice is now nineteen years old and accidentally returns to Underland, a place she visited thirteen years previously. She is told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Underland’s inhabitants. Burton said the original Wonderland story was always about a girl wandering around from one weird character to another and he never felt a connection emotionally, so he wanted to make it feel more like a story than a series of events. He does not see this as a sequel to previous films or a re-imagining. It premiered in the United States and the United Kingdom on March 5, 2010 through IMAX 3-D and Disney Digital 3-D, as well as in traditional theaters.

Troubled by a recurring dream featuring a host of strange creatures, nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska) attends a party at a Victorian estate shortly after the death of her beloved father. She learns that the formal affair is actually an engagement party to eventually wed her into the Ascot family who now own her father’s trading firm. Unsure of how to reply to Hamish Ascot’s proposal, Alice runs away and follows the White Rabbit, Nivens McTwisp (Michael Sheen). She then falls down a rabbit hole into Underland, a bizarre world she previously visited as a child, although she has lost most memory of it and believes what she remembers it to have been a dream. It is explained throughout the course of the film that Iracebeth, the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), conquered Underland by stealing the ruling crown from her sister Mirana, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), but Alice will slay the Red Queen’s guardian, the Jabberwocky, on the Frabjous Day using the Vorpal Sword. However, a misunderstanding of words from Absolem the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) makes everyone believe that she is “the wrong Alice.” The forces of the Red Queen attack, and kidnap McTwisp, Uilleam the Dodo (Michael Gough), and Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), while Alice escapes. The Knave of Hearts, Ilosovic Stayne (Crispin Glover) informs the Red Queen of Alice’s return; the Red Queen subsequently orders her capture.

Alice is found by the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), a grinning cat, who leads her to Tarrant Hightopp (Johnny Depp), Thackery Earwicket (Paul Whitehouse) and Mallymkun (Barbara Windsor). As Stayne searches for Alice, The Hatter flees toward the White Queen’s castle with a shrunken Alice but is captured, with Alice narrowly escaping their notice. A bloodhound named Bayard (Timothy Spall), forced to work for the Red Queen due to the imprisonment of his family, aids Alice in secretly infiltrating the Red Queen’s castle to rescue The Hatter. McTwisp, now a page for the Red Queen, gives Alice a small cake that makes her grow to a large size, but she fools the Red Queen into believing she is “Um from Umbradge.” Meanwhile, the Hatter serves as the Red Queen’s personal milliner in an attempt to delay his impending execution. Alice learns that the Vorpal Sword is hidden in the den of the Bandersnatch, whose eye was earlier removed by Mallymkun. Alice restores its eye, and it helps her escape from the castle with Bayard. The Cat saves the Hatter and Mallymkun from execution, and they lead all of the enslaved Underland creatures to flee the Red Queen’s castle. Alice delivers the Vorpal Sword to the White Queen and returns to her normal size, but she remains unsure whether she can kill the Jabberwocky.

Alice fights the Jabberwocky and is nearly killed but the Hatter distracts it, starting an all-out brawl between the Red Queen’s and White Queen’s forces. The Hatter fights and overcomes Stayne as Alice beheads the Jabberwocky. Without the beast to instill fear, the Red Queen is deposed and banished with Stayne to the outlands forever. Alice returns home, where she refuses Hamish’s proposal and becomes an apprentice for his father with the idea of beginning trade routes with China. The film ends with Alice sailing away on a ship (nicknamed “Wonder”) with Absolem, now as a butterfly, fluttering off and away from her shoulder.

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