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By Little Mummy, August 17, 2010 1:45 am

posted by BigDaddy

Having received the Disney Blu-Ray of Alice in Wonderland to review I couldn’t wait to watch it. Tim Burton is one of my favourite film directors and to me this project was ideally suited to his style and boy I wasn’t disappointed!

The director really does create a visually stunning world which is a true feast for the eyes. Every detail is well thought out and quite clever. For instance in the evil Red Queens palace, every piece of furniture is held up by an animal, birds hold up the chandeliers and monkeys hold the candlesticks. I didn’t even realize that was the case until I had watched it twice!

The acting and voice over performances were all very good with the awesome Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter given a run for his money in the best performance stakes by Helena Bonham-Carter as the wicked Red Queen who is stark raving mad and deliciously evil and her cries of “off with their heads” will be ringing in your ears for ages. I was however not convinced by Alice herself, Mia Wasikowska, who was slightly out of her depth in such esteemed company. Also for movie geeks like me, watch out for Stayne, the Knave of Hearts who is played by Marty McFly’s dad from Back to the Future!!

I think the plot was pretty standard fantasy stuff, with Alice being the chosen one and slaying the Red Queen’s feared Jaberwocky but the film more than makes up for that with it’s outstanding visuals and a truly immersive world in which to loose yourself in, especially on Blu-ray!

In my eyes this more than makes up for Burton’s other “re-imagining” that was the farcical Planet of the Apes and while fans of the Lewis Carroll’s book may be underwhelmed by the so-so story fans of Burton will be happy because it just looks so damn good. Welcome back Tim, we missed you.

3.5 stars out of five

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By Little Mummy, April 19, 2009 1:27 am

I’ve been pretty lucky recently with my Freebies, this rucksack choc full of Robinsons Fruit Shoots, Waters and Juices arrived a few weeks back. There were actually quite a few more bottles than that, but we were just too desperate to get tasting

Did you know the Fruit Shoot brand was only introduced in 2000? It feels longer than that, it’s pretty well established as the kids drink of choice (if Coke is off the menu!). Erin has enjoyed the blackcurrant and orange flavours in the past so I knew she’d enjoy trying the other flavours. The flavoured waters went down surprisingly well, I gave her the choice between a fruit shoot or the water and she chose water both times. As for the fruit shoots she enjoyed the familiar varieties but the Apple went down the best, I tried it too, reminded me of Apple flavoued Hubba Bubba mmmm.

I ended up having the orange juice and my husband had the apple juice one day when we ran out of juice. The orange juice was really good and not too acidic.

The drinks were great but the rucksack caused some excited squeeling and has already been utilised on a few trips