The Alice in Wonderland trailer is probably the latest and best argument for why Tim Burton and Johnny Depp should call it quits and go do other movies. Johnny Depp is a talented actor and can seem to open any movie big, so long as it doesn’t have the name Tim Burton before the title. Meanwhile Alice in Wonderland was doing well on the buzz for its first bits of art, until the trailer came out dominated by Johnny Depp playing the Mad Hatter as a transsexual escapee from Cirque du Soleil. The Mad Hatter isn’t meant to be the star of Alice in Wonderland, and Johnny Depp has once again made a freaky acting choice that backfired. Depp’s weird acting choices can pay off, The Pirates of the Caribbean movies are the best example. But then there was Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake that most people have already forgotten, where Depp decided to model Willie Wonka on Michael Jackson. This time out he seems to have gone one better, or worse. The thing is that Tim Burton’s movies need grounding, and Depp is not the guy to ground a movie, instead he’s the guy to make it that much crazier.