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When she follows the rabbit (voiced by Michael Sheen) to escape a public marriage proposal, she falls not into Wonderland, but into "Underland." Burton makes a clever distinction: the dreamy spelling was a childhood mispronunciation. Underland is real, dark, and crumbling. The citizens—the Dormouse, the Tweedles, and the White Rabbit—mistake her for "The Alice," the prophesied warrior who will slay the Jabberwocky on the Frabjous Day and free them from the tyrannical rule of the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter).

Perhaps most importantly, the film gave a generation of young women a different kind of heroine. Mia Wasikowska’s Alice doesn’t spend the film searching for a husband or a way home; she spends it searching for her own spine. In the final battle, she literally grows to 9 feet tall, sheds her dress for armor, and declares, "I make the path." It is a triumphant image that resonates far deeper than the film’s occasional CGI fuzziness. Is alice.in.wonderland.2010 a great film? Perhaps not in the traditional critical sense. It is disjointed, narratively cobbled together, and sometimes visually overwhelming to the point of nausea. But is it a memorable one? Undoubtedly. alice.in.wonderland.2010

The film’s legacy is twofold. First, it launched a micro-trend of "dark fairy tale" adaptations ( Snow White and the Huntsman , Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters ). Second, it cemented the idea that Lewis Carroll’s universe is an intellectual property malleable enough for sequels. This film’s own sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), was a critical and commercial failure, proving that the specific alchemy of Burton, Depp, and Bonham Carter in 2010 was lightning in a bottle. When she follows the rabbit (voiced by Michael