Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland had its world-wide premiere in London on Thursday night, and the actors and guests brought out their most Through the Looking Glass-esque fashion. I am reminded of that time in college when I took two hits of the most powerful hallucinogen I’ve ever had before or since, and I thought the poster of Keith Moon was attacking me. Actually, the fashion isn’t completely terrible, there were a couple of people who looked nice. Like Johnny Depp up there. He looks like he bathed! I wish he would take off the glasses, though. I wonder if they’re prescription?
Next up, we have the director, Tim Burton, and his wife Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the Red Queen. This is actually one of the better outfits I’ve seen on Helena, although that’s not saying much. She’s wacky and eccentric, and that’s why I like her. She and Tim make a good pair:
Anne Hathaway had my favorite dress of the night, although the fit looks off to me. Anne has lovely breasts, so why does the dress look cinched too-tight around the bust? But the color is brilliant. It photographs differently in every photo, it looks like a strange brown-orange-rose shade. Lovely. Her hair and makeup are superb too.
I would admire the simplicity and elegance of Avril Lavigne’s dress if it was on someone else. But you put a simple dress on a poseur, and all you get are snores. By the way, Avril is there because she did one of the songs for the film. Gasp!
Mia Wasikowska is Alice, and every time I see this girl, she looks different. She’s got that Cate Blanchett quality, where she either looks totally weird and striking, or insanely beautiful. I’m going with striking here. The dress is way too much on such a young girl (she’s 20).
Patti Smith is fabulous, so I won’t say anything about her suit or her hat or her gloves. Keep on truckin’ Patti.
Oh, Michael Sheen! I just watched The Queen for the millionth time. I love Sheen, he’s brilliant. He plays the White Rabbit.
That’s about it for the premiere, minus many random British people that I didn’t recognize. I just looked up the full cast for Alice, and so many people didn’t show up! No Alan Rickman (the Blue Caterpillar), no Stephen Fry (Cheshire Cat), no Marton Csokas (swoooon! He plays Charles Kingsleigh), no Christopher Lee (the Jabberwocky). Sad! As for the film itself, it’s getting solid but not glowing reviews – but you know what? Burton’s films are rarely critically acclaimed, although he’s got one of the biggest cult followings out there, and he’s one of the most innovative storytellers working today.
Here’s a little video to get you in the mood. I’ve been humming it this whole time.
F-ck me, I love Grace Slick.
Alice In Wonderland UK premiere in London on February 25, 2010. Credit: WENN.
Patti Smith?
Christopher Lee was there- check Daily Mail’s article.What a strange choice of gowns!But totally appropriate for such a movie.
And they say Johnny Depp doesn’t bathe? Have they SEEN Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton?! I mean, I love their quirkiness and everything, but come on. Don’t attack the Depp. And Mia’s dress is too much for someone so petite, as well as so young.
“White Rabbit” is one of my all-time favourite songs! Scroll along the bottom to them perform the song at Woodstock…the sound quality sucks, what with the feedback, but it’s a cool experience. Grace Slick has a freakin’ awesome voice!
I think Anne looks terrible. The dress has such a harsh colour. And the make-up is dreadful. So pale and then such dark eyes, it only emphasises their droopy-ness.
I. Cannot. Wait.
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton are like the Andrew Lloyd Weber/Sarah Brightman of filmmaking. He can’t seem to make a movie anymore without sticking her in it. For once, I’d like to see a brand new Tim Burton movie without Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in it.
I don’t like Anne Hathaway’s dress at all. Making someone’s breasts look like they’ve been squished horizontally is not a good look. The fabric is also too heavy looking.
I think that Mia’s is a bit of a scroll-down fug. The top part is very pretty and youthful. She just needs to remove about 10 pounds of fabric from the bottom.
I think Helena’s outfit looks great on her, so oddly put together, but it works because of her personality, although I’m not sure if I would wear it myself (maybe I’d give it a try).
Anne’s dress did not impress me, but I don’t think she looks bad either.
I have to admit the only outfit I really would like to wear myself is Avril’s, even if I don’t particularly like or dislike her, I thought she looked cute. However, that dress seems to need someone with more attitude or elegance (or just stronger curves) in order to make it as interesting/flattering as it seems to be by itself.
March 5 cannot get here soon enough.
I. Cannot. Wait. Too.
p.s. as for johnny’s glasses/hair in the face, it has been said that he was sooo traumatized by the attempt to heartthrob him in his 21 Jump Street days, that he intentionally plays down the hot. oh but it is NOT working. swooooon.
From that angle, his glasses don’t look prescription. There’s no distortion between the line of his cheek and the cheekline as seen through the lens.
This is one of the tamer outfits I’ve seen on Helena and it borders on being cutely wacky rather than looking like she scraped up a handful of things from the floor of her closet and put them all on.
i love helena… she can do no wrong by me… she does the homeless look so well and i love it!
anne should have worn something else… i hope rachel zoe didnt put her in that dress. if she did she needs to start eating again because the bitch is hallucinating thinking that “shit is bananas”! the top part around her clevage is just wrong and the colour washes her out. it looks like a first grade class attacked her for their arts and craft day.
johnny looks fabulous as usual. i love those glasses. i think they are prescription with the tint. off topic my nan has ones like that lol.
avril actually looks her age for once… she is not wearing bunnies, black tights and heavy make up all at the same time.
shame there are no pictures of alan rickman because he is one of my favourite actors 🙁
20? Really? I would have guessed like 30.
Ah Grace Slick. How I love the 60’s version of you, but the current version is a walking example of how drugs/alcohol can destroy a fantastic voice/brain.
Anne Hathaway’s dress looked kind of cheap to me the way the sequins had some kind of weird sheen to them.
If that’s enough to constitute a “bad acid trip”, I’m guessing your acid trips have been pretty freakin’ amazing… This is more like a boring, blah acid trip. If there is such a thing. I don’t really know, not having tried it yet. Meh.
I love Helena for being so kooky. Her outfits are always fug but she pulls them off with such charm. What kills me though is that she’s probably wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothes and accessories and it looks like the stuff Goodwill threw out because it was too horrible to sell. But yah, mega brownie points for being herself and a good actress on top of that.
Avril would look divine if she darkened her eyebrows and lightened up her eyes. Lay off the black eyeliner, kiddo. She should have worn her hair up.
Jesus Christ Kaiser – I love your posts
LOVE carter and burton… they make sense together!
I totally agree with everything that Kaiser said.
“he’s one of the most innovative storytellers working today.”
Really? Tim Burton!? I mean, I love the guy, but storytelling is not his strong point, let’s be honest. Even something like Sweeney Todd, with its murder and betrayal and forbidden passion and cannibalism, was really all about the LOOK, and how much mascara to smear on Johnny Depp’s face, and every neck a Niagara of blood.
Tim Burton’s films are picture books. I love his work, but he’s really a first-rate designer dragging a second-rate storyteller around.
Can Patti Smith do anything more or wear anything else to make herself more ugly? She is not talented, either.
The ladies went couture and didn’t look so bad. Helena’s look is my favorite, of course. 😀
Can Helena ever look presentable? She always looks like she’s going to a Halloween party. I get that she is eccentric, but if Tim can look good in a suit, she can look good in a normal dress.
Wow, Alan Rickman’s in this too?? Fuck me, I can’t wait! With him and Stephen Fry in the one movie, I might spontaneously die. Worth it.
Johnny.I.Want.To.Sit.On.Your.Face.
Surprisingly there’s pictures of Avril with Dereck at the premeire. I thought they were getting divorced?