Aussie Alice savaged by movie critic

News of The World critic Robbie Collin slammed Mia Waiskowska's portrayal of Alice in Wonderland, saying "there's not been a lead character this paper-flat since the South Park movie".

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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.