I decided I'd find a picture of Jesus Christ, have Chet kick me in the nuts, then piss blood all over it. It's an edgy concept, because it might upset old people like your grandparents and Harrison Ford and, as far as I knew, it hadn't been done before. My first thought was that I'd really stick it to the Christian Savior. Masterminding a trippy reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll is like making a version of Crazy Traxi, only crazy! At this point, about the edgiest thing you could do with Alice in Wonderland is try to make it a little less fucking insane.įor those of you still stuck on Alice's creepy atmosphere, I decided that I would recreate its spirit of petulant rebellion right here in this review. The problem with making a dark and disturbing version of Alice in Wonderland is that it's pretty dark and disturbing to begin with, which gives it little training wheels that help cultural firebrands ride it into geniusdom once every eighteen months or so.
The University of Getting Fired From id has graduated another self-proclaimed genius! Erik Wolpaw, writer of Portal 2 and others, on American McGee's Alice:
