The creatures are generally live versions (CG) of the Disney's previous animated version, and they're even more odder and fun to look at. The castles are sleek and intricately designed. Tim Burton's version of the Wonderland's environments are gorgeous, imaginatively created, lots of colorful details, and breathes life. Chances are if one liked Hook, one will find many things to like about Alice. Likewise, both films are both elaborately staged, they are both about growing up and making choices, and there's a big showdown. The progression of the story is also kind of similar, where the main character, Alice, like Peter, must rediscover herself and finally defeat her nemesis.

Similarly, Tim Burton's film is very much like a close cousin, except it's about Alice. If you remember, Steven Spielberg's Hook was the live action sequel to Peter Pan. Along the way she meets up with all sorts of colorful characters. Alice finds out that her destiny is to end the Red Queen's rule by slaying the queen's dragon, Jabberwocky, as written in the prophesy. There, she meets past familiar faces as the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), and eventually the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who has been terrorizing the land with her harsh rule and beheading of heads. Feeling pressured, she runs off, following a white rabbit, which leads her to Wonderland, a place she only vaguely remembers from childhood.

In this film, Alice is now 19-years old, and soon after the death of her father, is proposed to be married away. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is a sequel and not a retelling of the original children's novels by Lewis Carroll.

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