Tim Burton movies seem to have not the greatest view of women - we just watched "Sleepy Hollow" the other night and all the women in that are witches, aside from the one midwife (and midwives were often classified as witches) and a maid who was portrayed as kind of... easy. Still, I also liked the Mad Hatter - funny I didn't think of Glitch, but you're right, I can see that! (Oh, and if you haven't seen "Sleepy Hollow," though I'm sure I was almost the last person on earth who hadn't, Johnny Depp is playing almost exactly the same character, only with less makeup.)

I had a similar mixed reaction to "Alice In Wonderland," for most of the same reasons. I had to decide that Alice's "Real World" was another level of fantasy, a different Victorian England, maybe an alternate universe.

But the pig - they didn't kill it, did they? I thought they just made it lie upside down. :(