One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, but the ones that Tim Burton gives you don't do anything at all. Go see "Alice."

Lewis Carroll's classic 1865 children's story "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" has inspired countless films, and most have hewn pretty close to the original. Even Disney's cartoony 1951 version had a healthy respect for its source, elaborating mostly with some slapsticky sight gags.

But director Tim Burton thinks he knows better. His hubris is such that his "Alice In Wonderland" tosses Carroll's story entirely, keeping only the well-known characters for this "sequel" to the original, in which Alice, at age 19, returns to the magical world of her childhood adventure.