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You can always count on Tim Burton to make the darkest, wackiest films in cinema. With his favourite actor Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, and actress and wife Helena Bonham Carter as the ‘ugly, oppressive queen’, Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is the latest of his Victorian-period films.

This time though there’s a difference. This time, Alice and all that delicious but dark Wonderland will be in all it glorious 3D, jumping out of the screen to spellbind and thrill the audience. Opening to mixed reviews, such as “Tim Burton tampers with the children’s classic to his cost” (Observer), to, “In all, a fantastic film that gets curiouser and curiouser” (Times Online), Alice in Wonderland has always been a book, then film, that has divided audiences with its less-than-obvious themes.

Already grossing $41m on its opening on Friday, Alice and Wonderland 3D is apparently the biggest 3D release of all time, beating James Cameron’s Avatar, and will go a long way to reassure Disney, who spent a whopping $250m on the remake of the classic book.

So will it leave you grinning like the Cheshire Cat, or as Mad as a Hatter?