Crazy or Pretend?

In Tim Burton's version of Alice the characters, like in the book, all seemed to be mad crazy.  However a great difference that I noticed in the movie was that even though the characters come off a lunatics, they still were smart enough to talk about issues and think beyond their normal craziness.  The Hatter even showed empathy when hiding Alice in the tea pot during the movie clip which doesn't seem like something the Hatter would do in the book.  I think that the movie depicts the characters in a more realistic way by showing their feelings and troubles instead of confusing us with odd words and rhymes like the book does.  Something that I wish they showed more of in the movie was the whole concept of time.  The movie briefly dicussed it but not to the level that the book did, which was a very important piece of that chapter.  The movie surprised me with how many things were very different but I think that it was a nice vivid interpretation of the characters and of Wonderland.