Negative Positive
Title: Liberties movie makers take with 'classics'
Review: Not having read Alice in Wonderland, etc., for many years and having just seen the movie, I purchased it to reread because the 3-D movie didn't smack of the story as I had remembered it. In rereading the book, I laughted loudly at times of the cleverness with which it was constructed. As a very 'mature' reader I had remembered such from my youthful reading of it. Then I realized the movie makers had indeed 'Hollywoodized'-- that enchanting story -- making it violent and very Harry Potterish in its 'dragon chases' Of course the British actors were superb, as well as the American, but what a corruption of its dreamy innocence with such nightmareish malevolence! This book really is a must for anyone's collection of childhood classics read and enjoyed, even if one is older.
Is the review positive or negative? 