Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Spoilers)

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Idioteque...

Seems like most of the reviewers are turned off by it's weird nature and I know most of them have not read the original 2 novels.

But alas if they insult the books they would be deemed idiots because they're considered classics. I haven't finished reading both books yet but they're very odd and polarizing.

To read the books, you just have to GET THE JOKES. (Tim, obviously, doesn't. )
You have to know logic to write nonsense, and Carroll was a math-and-logic geek.

In the first book, Carroll wanted to recycle some of the best improv interactive-story sessions he had with the Liddell sisters, and throw in a few of his worst puns and silliest Victorian-poetry lampoons (and occasional Elizabeth I jokes) into a thinly strung-together A-B storyline to connect them together.
In the second book, Carroll structured it around a a fifteen-move chess strategy he'd developed (which is why the Queen of Hearts was a card but the Red Queen was a chess piece...Confused them, did we, Tim?), and "expanded" the storyline this time to include the gimmick of Alice meeting nursery-rhyme characters, such as Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, and, of course, the Tweedles.

...Y'know, it's just not that deep a book, people. Like, maybe, YOU'RE the ones on drugs and he wasn't?
(I remember, back when Monty Python first appeared, fans also thinking "Man, those guys have gotta be on drugs!"...Um, no, they weren't, actually. Although I suspect fans asked for pretty much the same similar reasons.)