My wife and I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. And this week when the magazine showed up in our mailbox, the image smiling at me from the cover was enough to make me blurt out “AHHHHH” and jump back into the street.
What was it, you ask? It was Johnny Depp, made up as the orange-haired, green-eyed, gap-toothed Mad Hatter—the character he plays in Tim Burton’s reimagining of Alice in Wonderland.
Alice is the latest collaboration between Depp and Burton in a partnership that stretches back 20 years, to 1990’s Edward Scissorhands. Since then, they’ve partnered on Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Burton’s latest exercise in cinematic oddity purportedly has a budget in the neighborhood of $200 million.
Now, I know Depp and Burton are established commodities. But I have to wonder how many other people respond to that image the same way I do. Maybe I’m just drifting into old-age curmudgeon-dom, but this picture just freaks me out. Needless to say, I have no interest in seeing the movie … let alone taking the wife and kids.
How about you? Any thoughts on Burton and Depp’s latest out-there exercise? Do you plan to see Alice in Wonderland or skip it, and why?
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