Alice in Wonderland

As this Monday is a holiday we went to Cinéma Lux in La Châtre, to see the latest work by Tim Burton.

Beforehand this film was very talked about and of course made in 3D.
Unfortunately this movie theater is not equiped with the technical devices enabling them to show films in 3D but on the other hand, the technical side is hardly the most interesting aspect for a cinephile.
It's said that Burton was inspired by the animated film Alice (Neco z Alenky) made by Jan Svankmajer (in 1988), a film we saw last year (june 2009) during the film festival in Paris, Paris Cinéma.
I can't say that the influences were to obvious even though the characters and their behaviour, somewhat resembled their counterparts in Svankmajers film. On the other hand one don't know how much is derived from the fact that we've seen other screen adaptations about Alice in her Wonderful Land.
Technically we were not impressed at all, Aurore and I.
There were some 'jumpy' movements in the way some of the characters walked and ran, not at all unusual in modern film making using animated or half animated parts but on the same time somewhat surprising taking into consideration the technical possibilities today.
The mixture between the faces of 'real' actors (modified) and the computer animated bodies didn't always work out well. Sometimes one asked oneself why use the computer animated bodies instead of real but this has to do with the 3D in itself - unfortunately.
It's imaginative, as always with Tim Burton, but the question is if this version added something essential to the story or characters in the story, or to much relied on the technical skill of the animators.
On the whole not at all a bad adaptation and of course there were some interesting and fantastic moments but seen in connection to the above mentioned version by Svankmajer, we found that one - much more simplified from a technical point of view - at least as interesting and much more charming.