Danny Elfman -Alice in Wonderland

Danny's Alice is probably one of his finest works, offering his best features in pretty much every track -hauntingly beautiful tunes and strong, emotional themes that take you right back to the film's best moments. I think I hear more flutes than usually from him, but there's that same playfulness as Big Fish had, same sorrow as in Edward, and the same glooming dread as in Planet of the Apes and some of Charlie's tracks. And yet the new soundtrack feels fresh and exciting, like anything from Underland should.

Alice's theme is a part of many of the tracks, and is reprised in various forms often as well, but can you really blame him when the track is this fabulous and strong? It is a perfect representative of the film, and in a way something different from Danny. But in the end there's quite many versions of it in the soundtrack, and I do feel one or two less would have been better. Still, a great soundtrack, easily one of the best from this year already.