I couldn't decide whether or not to go and see the new Alice in Wonderland film. I'd seen pictures and knew it was Tim Burton, so I knew it was going to be weird. Given that Alice in Wonderland is my favourite book, I was either going to love it or hate it. My sister thought it was "alright", so I thought I'd go and see it this afternoon.

The cinema was nice and empty. The 3D glasses cost me 80p(!) and say on them that you should only wear them in theatres. So I shouldn't have been wearing them in the cinema... The thing with 3D glasses is they used to be cardboard with red and green coloured eyes. Now they're proper plastic glasses, which don't work well over glasses. So my nose really hurt. And the 3D didn't add anything - it was completely pointless, but there wasn't an option of seeing it in 2D.

The film itself was a bit of a case of spot-the-actor. Alice's mum was Lindsay Duncan. I spent the film trying to work out why I recognised Hamish - it turns out he was in the first series of Ashes to Ashes, which I watched recently. And I eventually worked out that Alice's brother-in-law was a copper, but I had to look it up to discover he was one of the Sergeants in Midsomer Murders.

I liked it more than the SyFy version - although that did turn Alice into an American, which I object to in principle. They both used the same bits of the books and missed out some of the best bits - like The Walrus and the Carpenter for instance.

My two complaints with it were that the young Alice looked like a doll and they kept calling the Jobberwock the Jabberwocky. To the extent where I thought maybe I was wrong, but I looked it up when I got home and it is the poem that is called Jabberwocky, the creature in it is a Jabberwock. That's quite hard to get wrong if they'd just read the books!

All in all it was alright, but they took a lot of the childish mystery out of it. They turned croquet into a horrible sport that hurt the hedgehog and that's not what it's all about. I'd say that the books are much better, but that's always going to be the case, really.

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