After watching Tim Burton’s version of “Alice in Wonderland,” which opens today, I could not help but feel just as confused as the first time I watched the film in my childhood.

With some young girl running after rabbits and encountering characters like a blue caterpillar that smokes hookah, viewers can easily question the plot line and wonder why the film was created in the first place.

Burton did a nice job drawing the line between people and the other characters; they were real human beings in an animated world.

Instead of Alice being a bored girl with nothing better to do than follow a rabbit, she is running away from a marriage proposal in Burton’s version.

Like Disney’s original, the movie revolves around Alice, a young blonde woman who ends up falling into a mysterious world, also known as “Wonderland,” after chasing a rabbit in a pea coat.

People that have seen the original know that she is falling into Wonderland, but what is with the tunnel of random objects? She miraculously ends up in a room with many doors.

After shrinking, growing, and shrinking again, Alice fits through one of the doors and enters Wonderland.

There she meets many odd characters.

She runs into two “fat boys,” a crazy rabbit who throws tea cups, the original Cheshire cat, a cynical old caterpillar who smokes hookah, and, of course, the famous Mad Hatter.

First of all, let’s start with the “fat boys.” These characters seemed to be incompetent human versions of Humpty Dumpty, bald brothers who fight all the time.

These add to the confusion of the movie: What was their purpose in this film besides bickering amongst themselves?

The crazed Cheshire cat, with the creepy grin, helped Alice in this movie when I could’ve sworn he was one of the characters against her in the original film. Either way, the cat was amazing.

The Mad Hatter, played by Johnny Depp, is ultimately what made the movie.

The Mad Hatter had the most amazing make-up; his crazy green eyes were adorned with colorful eye shadow and bright orange eyebrows. Just his appearance alone entertained the audience.

The only problem with Depp playing the Mad Hatter was that, at times, one would feel as though one were watching “Pirates of the Caribbean” as his voice sounded way too similar to that of his other famous role, Jack Sparrow.

And not to leave out the queens: the Queen of Hearts and her sister were quite the characters as well.

The Queen of Hearts, played by Helena Bonham Carter, is annoying and bitter, just like the original.

Her enormously large head was hilarious. Why her head was large, I’m not quite sure.

Her sister, the White Queen, as played by Anne Hathaway, reminded me of a Glinda from “The Wizard of Oz,” she was the “good witch” of Wonderland. In the original version, however, I don’t remember this queen at all.

Since these crazy characters made the movie, I would recommend you see this movie just once.

Depp and the nice animation of the movie really make it remarkable, just don’t bring children to the film.

Some scenes are quite scary. Depp’s bright orange eyebrows are frightening enough.

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