This isn’t his deliciously trippy Wonderland - it’s a stale imitation inhabited by characters who recite familiar lines like slogans. The film owes at least as much to Transformers as it does to Alice’s creator, Lewis Carroll, who would surely turn over in his grave if he saw this movie. There’s no heart, no soul, and (strangely for a Tim Burton-produced movie) no unique vision. Does anyone really accept that Alice is ever in danger? Does anyone believe entropy will destroy the universe once it’s unleashed? By failing to capture an emotional, human toll for any of its characters, Alice through the Looking Glass becomes a show reel for its special effects crew. It’s the “sound and fury, signifying nothing” problem - lots of special effects and running around but no real sense of danger or suspense. Time, however, is allied with an old enemy of Alice’s: The Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who remains devoted to engineering the downfall of both Alice and her sister, The White Queen (Anne Hathaway).Īlthough Alice through the Looking Glass has a plot, its points are mostly convenient opportunities for nonsensical action scenes. The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is acting more mad than usual and Alice learns that, in order to “fix” him, she must locate the Chronosphere, a time-traveling device jealously guarded by Time (Sacha Baron Cohen), and discover the truth of what happened to the Hatter’s family. In that moment of despair, she is lured back to Wonderland, where all of her old friends are waiting for her. After an improbable escape from pirates, she returns home in seeming triumph, only to learn that, in her absence, her father’s business has been sold out from under her. Back in the real world, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) has been spending several years as a sea captain. Visually, Alice through the Looking Glass has its moments but pretty backgrounds and clever special effects can’t obscure the disappointment resulting from a half-baked script and a miscast villain.Īlice through the Looking Glass begins an unspecified time after the end of Alice in Wonderland. The movie is frequently incomprehensible and, on those occasions when it makes sense, the viewer may wish it didn’t. More likely to inspire thoughts of Michael Bay than Lewis Carroll, this sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland borrows sparingly from the Carroll novel with the same title, opting instead to use Linda Woolverton’s confused and incoherent story as its basis. Alice through the Looking Glass may represent Disney’s first big-budget failure in quite some time.
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