A Vorpal Sword in Wonderland

I finally got around to the Navy Pier (Chicago) IMax 3D to see for myself the Alice and Wonderland picture.-- now, a little review.
Here's a good question! - "If it were fashionable to wear a codfish (!) on your head (!!), would you wear one?"-Alice
Those familiar with the coming of age story, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, will recognize the sweet poem that defines the work. The poem includes these elusive words:
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious Bandersnatch!"
The poem also includes a reference to slizy toves who
"gyre and gimble in the wabe."
Alice and The Mad Hatter did indeed gyre and gimbal in the wabe. Actually The Hatter was in the wabe, gyreing and gimbeling as Alice with the Vorbal Sword slew the (furmious) bandersnatch, and brought the crown to The White Queen, banishing the evil Red Queen ("Off with her head!") forever. Alice was already beyond the wabe as she did a little gyre and gimbal of her own for the assembled quests, having resolved in Wonderland the issue of a real world royal proposal of matrimony. Ann Hathaway I must mention is spell-binding, beautiful and majestic as the White Queen.
Lewis Carrol would be proud and dis-believing to see or hear of this enchanting, dream-like presentation of his novel, Alice in Wonderland. Mia Wasikowska as the so very innocent, lovely Alice with the world and more before her is a joy to behold for the eyes and for the imagination. "Impossible?" she say's, "Sometimes I think of 7 impossible things before breakfast!" It was her destiny to return to Wonderland (she thought it might be a dream,- and it was many years ago) to slay the creature, and she did; and all the while thinking of "impossible things". It's hard to imagine how the very young Mia Wasikowska is able so well to advance the plot of Carroll's story of Alice.
I think TweedleDum and TweedleDee (portrayed by Matt Lucas) may have stolen the film - except of course for the bulbus headed Red Queen memorably played by Helena Bonham Carter; and most of all, the talented and delightful Alice herself.
Sometimes great actors don't have to act all that much. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter only dramatically acts for a few seconds, a few lines. Other than that he just romps through and enjoys the performance. There seemed to be a little difficulty (very little) with the transition between he and Alice being together in Wonderland, and he and Alice being more together in Wonderland. But it all works out. In the end his Mad Hatter has begun to notice the now sovereign White Queen, and the hope for romance is in the air.
I love to know that 3D is the greatest thing in motion pictures since the onset of color. If you haven't seen the new 3D, you don't know what you are missing! Virtual reality is here, now!
Within this movie, designed to include in it's appeal, a less mature audience than was Avatar, the visual effects are as good or better (hard to believe!). This movie is characterized by changes in lighting and coloring; change in general aspect and impression. The Tim Burton movie accepts that 3D is the wave of the future; he takes the proverbial ball, and he runs with it.
Everyone these days is surely aware of costuming; Alice in Wonderland takes the art to new levels. Honestly, this is a presentation not to be missed.
Again, 3D motion pictures are the wave of the future, and Burton's Alice in Wonderland brings hope, love, and imagination to that future in our troubled world.