Intro

Tim Burton is back with the gothic as his latest 3D adventure flick "Alice in Wonderland" is ready to hit worldwide screens on March 5.

Starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton’s Alice film is basically a sequel to the 1865 novel of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by English author Lewis Carroll.

Cinemas in China will release the film on March 26 on digital 2D/3D and iMax 3D screens.

Plot

In this extension of Lewis Carroll’s original stories, Alice Kingsley, now 19, attends a party at a Victorian estate shortly after the death of her beloved father.

The formal affair, unbeknownst to Alice, is an engagement party planned by her mother and sister. Just as the arrogant and boorish Lord Hamish Ascot proposes to Alice under a gazebo and before the eyes of hundreds of snooty society-types, Alice spots a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch.

In shock and confusion, she runs off into a maze and follows the White Rabbit through it. She eventually tumbles down a rabbit hole into Underland, more commonly referred to as "Wonderland" by its inhabitants.

She had visited this place 10 years earlier, but had entirely forgotten about it. She then reunites with her childhood friends, including the Mad Hatter, who explains to Alice that they need her help in over-throwing the Red Queen, who has taken control of Wonderland from her benevolent sister, the White Queen.

Alice is also told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwock, the dragon who terrorizes the inhabitants of Wonderland under the rule of the Red Queen.

Alice then embarks on an adventure of self-discovery in the process of saving Wonderland and her friends there from both the Jabberwock and the Red Queen’s reign of terror.