Release: March 12, 2014
Film: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Tagline: Dammit, Tim Burton! Dammit!
This review contains examples of:
- Adaptation Decay: The Critic argues that trying to bring a logical story to a world that lacks logic completely goes against the original story's themes. He goes as far as to claim that Care Bears in Wonderland is more faithful to the book than this movie.
- Affably Evil: Malice. A very calm and polite Serial Killer version of Alice.
- Born in the Wrong Century: The Critic starts a segment called "Tired Oppression Clichés for Tired Free-spirited Whippersnappers" to emphasize how cliched it is to have a character with beliefs that don't align with the values of the time:Critic: This leaves Alice with a mother who is certainly a product of the times, who isn't willing to accept Alice because, of course, she's ahead of her time. And doesn't realize that the "ahead of the times" cliché has been done do many times that it actually makes it behind the times.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: See Giant Foot of Stomping Below.
- The All-Solving Hammer: Parodied in Alice in Wonderland (2010) when he has an “evidence destroying hammer” in his storage space.
- Dull Surprise: His main criticism of Mia Wasikowska's performance as Alice.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Malice may be a crazy Serial Killer, but she's visibly mortified when Critic declares that Care Bears in Wonderland was a better adaptation than the one he was reviewing.
- Flat Character: He criticises that the emphasis on what Alice isn't makes her one of these.
- Follow the White Rabbit: More like Follow the Black Rabbit. Carrotjuice the Black Rabbit, that is. The Critic is following him to get his home movies back, Malice is following him so that she can bring him to the American McGee Mantal Institution and prove to the world that she's not crazy.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Malice's murders of Danny Elfman, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: When the Critic and Malice are confronted by the Jibber Jabber, Malice simply consumes a cake that makes her grow larger, and then crushes the monster under her foot.
- Hypocrite: The Critic says he liked Tim Burton's work when he did original stuff instead of adaptations, only for Tim Burton to remind Critic that one of his favortie movies, Batman (1989) is an adaptation of someone else's work. He also thinks the premise for Big Eyes is interesting based on Tim's description, who tells Critic that it's also based on another person's work.
- Non-Indicative Name: The Critic accuses the film of this. Pointing out that "Alice" is not a little girl, she's a grown woman; she's not in Wonderland she's returning to it, and worst of all, that Wonderland isn't even called Wonderland, it's Underland.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In-Universe, Tim Burton after his motivating speech to The Critic about the films he made, ends up canceling his next feature Big Eyes for an adaptation of Adventure Time, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
- Shout-Out:
- The "Malice" outfit looks like the clothes of American McGee's Alice.
- The pendant on Malice's neck is the Poison Mushroom from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
- Straw Character: Subverted with Tim Burton, since although the episode involves the Critic mocking him for the cliches he's famous for, he ends up on the receiving end of a speech by Tim Burton about how creators have to take risks.
- Take That!: He points out that Sam Raimi already ruined The Wizard of Oz, and that Tim Burton needn't attempt the same.
I like largeness...
