Australian actress Mia Wasikowska arrives for the Royal
World Premiere of the movie Alice in Wonderland in
Leicester Square, London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Australian actress Mia Waiskowska's portrayal of Alice in
Wonderland has been savaged by a British movie critic, who says
she "looks like she's on heroin".
News of The World critic Robbie Collin gave the Tim
Burton blockbuster just one star in his column on Sunday,
describing the 3D film as one that should be burned and fired
off into space.
On Waiskowska's performance, Collin wrote that "there's not
been a lead character this paper-flat since the South Park
movie".
"The girl's got all the warmth of a refrigerated trout, and a
face you'd expect to see Blu-Tacked to the inside of a London
phone box.
"She's not a heroine - she looks like she's ON heroin."
Waiskowska's co-stars, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter,
were also slammed for their roles as the Mad Hatter and Red
Queen.
Depp's Hatter was a "flailing, pointless idiot" and "the
worst role he's played in his life", according to Collin.
His advice to Bonham Carter was: "put some bloody EFFORT into
it woman", describing her Red Queen as a "seventh-rate
impression of Queenie from Blackadder II".
Collin summed up the film as a "bona fide, bums-in-the-air
fiasco that needs to be burned and the ashes hurtled off in
the direction of the nearest black hole as soon as you can,
NASA".
"In fact, it's Lesbian Vampire Killers bad - the kind of film
that you don't just dislike or even hate, but one that your
body physically rejects like a dodgy organ transplant." Alice
in Wonderland had its world premiere in London last Thursday.
It opens in Australia on March 4.
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