Alice in Wonderland [PG]: Only a handful of times before has the film industry been able to pair a literary property with the right director. Jim Thompson's The Getaway found Sam Peckinpah. Great Expectations by David Lean is another. And it rarely occurs that an actor is matched to a role he was destined to play. Christopher Reeve as Superman. For all eternity, Sean Connery is James Bond. Tim Burton's revisit to Lewis Carroll's books is a nearly perfect union. Undoubtedly a fan of the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit," Burton feeds your head with a Wonderland of grotesqueries that owe as much to illustrator Arthur Rackum and Disney's 1951 animated feature as to Carroll. I remember that when I first saw Alice as a Disney cartoon, it was the Cheshire Cat the mesmerized me. Burton delivers a wispy, spectral grin for a character that still haunts this story. Johnny Depp is so perfect as the Mad Hatter it can pretty much be ruled out that the Hatter will be a Batman villain, unless of course Depp can be persuaded to reprise his role! You don't have to see this in 3-D, but here's what the process does for the film: it places you on a more hallucinatory level so that even though you've fallen down the rabbit hole with Allice, only to discover a topsy-turvy, disoriented world beneath,, the layered physical set comes alive in 3-D without anything thrown towards you. I love this film as a stunning visual achievement and as one of Burton's best.