Holy shit, not only does somebody else know the Court Jester, they beat me to it before I refreshed. *bows to in fits of print*

Bucky, given the richness of the source material, there's plenty of room for new Alice stories that are completely different from one another. There have been gazillions of versions of Romeo and Juliet. Some are great, and some stink, but nobody argues that there's no room for new versions.

I thought it was because you were the gingerbread man.

I'm more of an Anderson Meh-er but as a Dahl devotee who loves the book, I am tentatively optimistic. Here's hoping the trailer's dialogue wasn't all that representative, though.

*sings* Only the stoutest arm, the bravest heart, with a magic charm and a big head start can ever outfox the Fox….

Fur sure. I've pelt this way for quite some time.

I feel exactly the opposite. Burton's giving Willy Wonka a backstory ruined "Charlie" for me. I'm glad he's telling his own Alice tale instead of doing something horrible like make the Mad Hatter cry for his mother's approval. As for this, I think it's just going to piss me off by deviating from the original, nudging…

I think I'm definitely an inappropriate audience for this movie, but I didn't know that until seeing the trailer. Catch-22.

Agreed on the smug. It's "wink at the audience" smug rather than "I'm daring and clever" smug, which is off-putting.

BFG FTW.

*whistle clicks*
I think I might need to stab myself now.

There's also a distinct lack of the words "DON'T PANIC" on the front.

So did Daniel F. Keyes.

Man, Don Bluth was so ahead of his time with sparkly heroes.

The Murine Candidate.

And electric lights!

As long as there's some sort of electric dance in it, I'm all for it.

"Roger O. Thornhill. Rot. What does the O stand for?"
"Nothing."

I hope they hire Sandra Tsing Loh to punch up the script, because honestly, the original Secret of NIMH just doesn't have the punchy humor to keep the tiny tots engaged. And there's not nearly enough cowbell.

Curious incident, that.