Burton’s Alice in Wonderland takes us on a journey that combines aspects of the original Disney film with aspects from Lewis Carroll’s books as Alice returns to ‘Underland’ in her teenage years to face her destiny.

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) needs an escape from the pressures of a high class engagement party where she is in the spot light and facing an unexpected marriage proposal from a ginger Lord with sensitive digestion, so she follows the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) down a hole in a tree trunk and finds herself in the fantastical world from her childhood dreams.

Alice meets some strange and wonderful creatures in ‘Underland’ including Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee (Matt Lucas), The Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) and of course the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). They all assist her in realising who she really is and they guide her towards her fate of defeating the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and her Jabberwocky to return the crown and the power over the land to the White Queen (Anne Hathaway).

The cast for this film is fantastic but, there are two characters in particular that stand out amongst the rest. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are excellent as the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen; both shine in their roles and create enchanting performances that are a joy to watch. And they’re both mad to boot!

Tim Burton has let his imagination run wild and has put a firm stamp on this film with his reinventions of certain characters, the amazing aesthetics and the brilliant use of CGI. If anyone has possibly failed to sit up and notice Burton’s works before this then this film will surely do the trick.

In short, Alice in Wonderland is an excellent film which I would recommend to everyone. I just didn’t want it to end.

The DVD and Blu-Ray versions are out on 15th February.

Unfortunately this is no exception.  Dragonball Evolution tells of High School student Goku and his mysterious dragonball that he receives from his grandfather when he turns 18.  Despite being called a Dragonball and having the name Goku, apparently he is unaware that it might have powers!

Of course there are not only more Dragonballs out there – 7 in total – but there is also an evil adversary out to collect them all.  The wonderfully named Lord Piccolo kills Goku’s grandfather while trying to find the dragonball, setting Goku off on his mission to collect all 7 before Piccolo can get them all, seize control of the world and then destroy it – an act which makes the seizing control bit a tad pointless….

The cast isn’t too bad with Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and James Marsters (Buffy, Angel) but the whole thing is only a little diverting and probably not worth the effort!

The film sees the Pevensie children return to Narnia as Kings and Queens after 1,300 Narnian years. They find a completely different world to the one they left and have to battle to restore harmony. They come across the rightful heir to the throne, Prince Caspian, who is in hiding as his uncle is out to kill him. They have to fight to help him to his rightful position in order to bring the magic back to Narnia.

The array of different creatures in the film makes an interesting watch as they have to work together to save Narnia and the battle scenes that take place are riveting. However, the acting of the Pevensie children often leaves a lot to be desired and the character of Lucy is the only real star out of the four of them.

All in all, Prince Caspian will be a summer hit with both children and adults, but it won’t meet the standards the audience will be expecting.

Producer David Heyman admitted it was impossible to cram the 600+ “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” book into a single movie.

“You cannot remove elements of this book,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

Potter fans have been left disappointed in the past when key scenes, including Quidditch matches, were dropped from the big-screen adaptations.

Eragon is a young parent-less farm-boy, enjoying his life before he turns 18 and is likely to be forcibly interred into the army. But before that moment can come he comes into possession of a strange blue egg. An egg that hatches a dragon, Saphira, who is the last of her kind who leads Eragon towards his fate of being one of the fabled Dragon-Riders.

Galbatorix (John Malkovich being slightly menacing) rules the land and fears the return of the Dragon-riders, so sends his armies to destroy them, led by magician Durza (played by Robert Carlyle in his most un-scary way!).

And so the scene is set for chases, fights, the occasional close encounter with death, the loss of loved ones and the learning of a glib lesson or two about life.

Hungary and special effects create a spectacular landscape where the action unfolds, the special effects are fabulous, even managing to create a passable dragon throughout the film, and the supporting cast is rich in talent. The final battle scene owes a lot to those in the Lord of the Rings movies, and is suitably impressive.

However the film fails on two important points, one is the movie novice Ed Speeler who appears to be unable to express emotion unless it is that he has nice hair and chiselled features. And the second is that Paolini’s story has been massacred into a screenplay that does everything by the numbers. A better director who could tease something out of Speeler, and a half-decent screenplay could have guaranteed that the rest of this series was to be made. As it is…