History Film / AliceInWonderland

DefectorFromDecadence: It seems this way for at least a few members of the Queen's court, seeing as many members of the resistance are working against her from within it. The White Rabbit is her courier, while the two Tweedle brothers are her court jesters.

* NeverMyFault: The White Rabbit is pissed off at Alice for being "The wrong Alice" several times lecturing her and calling her out as a fraud, despite he was the one who chose her and brought her there.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Red Queen's.

* YoungestSiblingWins: Mirana succeeds in taking the throne away from her older sister and bringing peace to Wonderland.

* KilledByTheAdaption: In-Universe example, posthumously. The Queen claims she had her husband the King executed some time in the past. (Which may [[FridgeLogic make sense]], seeing as Carroll's work portrayed him as a somewhat ReasonableAuthorityFigure who quietly pardoned anyone his wife sentenced to death.

* TakeThat: [[spoiler:Alice's dance near the end of the movie; '''''Gasp!''' She's not wearing stockings!''

* TakeThat: [[spoiler:Alice's dance near the end of the movie; '''''Gasp!''' She's not wearing stockings!'' It doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome]].

* WaifFu: Alice, who looks like [[Series/{{Firefly}} River Tam]]'s even waifier sister, dons a shining suit of armor, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and beheads the friggin' Jabberwocky]] (who, to add even more to the {{HSQ}}, is voiced by ChristopherLee).

* ActorAllusion: Johnny Depp offscreen [[EdwardScissorhands cuts a new dress, seemingly without scissors]].

** Despite being named for the shortened-version of the first book, the movie is actually a sequel of sorts.

** Johnny Depp has a remarkably impressive record of [[FakeBrit successfully imitating the British accent]] in films - making it more likely to be a clever manifestation of the Hatter's madness than anything else.

** Though to be fair, at least in this fantasy world, the characters aren't immortal. [[spoiler: Red Queen: HE TRIED TO KILL ME! (Unless the Outlands, to which they were banished, have a magic spell surrounding them that prevents death)]]

Alice Kingsleigh (MiaWasikowska) has been having strange dreams since childhood, dreams filled with unusual creatures. Nearly twenty years old, she attends a fancy party with her mother and sister where Hamish, a young lord, proposes to her. Marrying him is what is expected of her, but she's conflicted enough to run away. And then promptly [[DownTheRabbitHole falls down a rabbit hole]].

In December 2012, Disney confirmed that work on a sequel entitled ''Through the Looking Glass'' had begun. JohnnyDepp and MiaWasikowska are slated to return, but Burton won't. Instead, [[Film/TheMuppets The Muppets]] director James Bobin will take charge. The project is currently set for a May 2016 release.

* ChekhovsGun: You'll be seeing that eye again. Also, the Hatter's various... [[BuffySpeak hatting...stuff]]. And the futterwacken.

* ChewingTheScenery: Johnny Depp. Oh God, Johnny Depp! Even in commercials he seems to be taking large hunks or scenery into his mouth!

** Actually, there may be some sort of explanation: Near the beginning of the movie, when Alice dances with her would-be fiance she tells him that she had a vision of women wearing pants and men wearing dresses (or something to that effect). Since she is efffectively wearing pants in the final battle, the Hatter wearing a kilt might sort of fulfill the other part of her vision.

** Though to be fair, at least in this fantasy world, the characters aren't immortal. [[spoiler: Red Queen: HE TRIED TO KILL ME! (Unless the outlands they were banished to have a magic spell surrounding it that prevents death)]]
* AMinorKidroduction: We first see Alice as a little girl. Then again in flashbacks of the original story.

-->'''Chessur:''' Goodbye, sweet...hat...

** Whenever he's angry, he slips into the Scottish accent. And his eyes change colors and gets dark coloration around his eyes.

* PetTheDog: Arguably. The Red Queen usurped her sister the White Queen and exiled her to the fairytale castle of Marmoreal. Bad, sure, but at least she let her little sister ''keep her head''. [[spoiler:Unlike the Red Queen's own husband, whose head is shown floating in the moat at Salazen Grum]].

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Alice is shrunk until only her dress remains.

** The Jabberwocky acting as the Red Queen's Sentinel, similarly to AmericanMcGeesAlice.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted with the White Queen's voice being deeper (and smoother) than the Red Queen's tyrannical shriek.

* LaResistance

* PragmaticAdaptation.

** The Mad Hatter gets a Scottish accent(with a kilt and a claymore in the final battle!) when angry.

* YourCheatingHeart: Alice catches her sister's husband making out with another woman. For extra {{Jerkass}} points, he says that if she tells on him, it will be ''her'' fault that their marriage founders.

In December 2012, Disney confirmed that work on a sequel had begun. JohnnyDepp and MiaWasikowska are slated to return, but Burton won't. Instead, [[Film/TheMuppets The Muppets]] director James Bobin will take charge.

In December 2012, Disney confirmed that work on a sequel had begun. It's currently unknown if any of the cast or Burton will return. In May 2013, it was rumoured that James Bobin, director of [[Film/TheMuppets The Muppets]] may direct.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Alice and Mock Turtle (phlegmatic), March Hare and Knave of Hearts (choleric/sanguine), Dodo and Red Queen (choleric), the Pigeon (choleric/melancholic), White Queen and White Rabbit (melancholic), Mad Hatter and the Gryphon (sanguine), and Dormouse and Cheshire Cat (leukine).

* BerserkButton: The Hatter may be as mad as a box of frogs, but he's among the best of the good guys in Underland and will do anything for his friends. However, if you mention the day his family was slaughtered, or you make one wrong move toward either Alice or the White Queen...suffice it to say that [[RedEyesTakeWarning if his eyes change color,]] ''run''.

* FantasticRacism: The reason why the Red Queen [[spoiler:accepts Alice into her court without question.]] Alice claims to be from a town that mocked her for her size, and that she came to the court of the Red Queen believing that she would be more tolerant. The Red Queen has [[EvenEvilHasStandards absolutely no problem with this,]] given her own disproportionate head-size. Sure, this is because of her own condition, but the fact that she didn't order Alice's death because she happened to have a massive head that happened to match her body size is fairly impressive.

*** And then says she's going [[EatsBabies to have his tadpoles on toast...]]

* CainAndAbel: The Queens.

* BerserkButton: It's really not a good idea to do anything that could be perceived by the Mad Hatter to be a threat against either Alice or the White Queen...and don't mention the [[NoodleIncident Horunvendush Day]]. Just don't.

A 2010 film by TimBurton, also released in 3D. Not an adaptation of either book, but rather a sort of sequel.

*** It's also part of AuthorAppeal: TimBurton always draws things with huge eyes ([[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]], anyone?), so the effects team decided to follow it.

* SceneryPorn and SceneryGorn: It ''is'' a TimBurton movie, after all. A visual feast is practically expected. Even the bombed-out ruins of the White Queen's party look impressive.