Why Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Is "Rotten" (Despite Making $1 Billion At The Box Office)

Tim Burton’s Disney adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, looked like it would be a recipe for success ― and indeed, it blew Burton’s other movies out of the water by bringing in more than $1 billion at the box office. However, despite cashing in commercially, Alice In Wonderland scored a “rotten” Rotten Tomatoes score and received mixed reviews. The movie’s stellar cast and intriguingly dark spin on a fantasy classic drew in huge numbers of viewers at the time, yet it didn’t make much of a cultural impact and isn’t largely remembered as one of Disney or Burton’s best.