Disney has had a
wonderful 2016 with hits like Captain
America: Civil War, The
Jungle Book, Zootopia,
and, most recently, Finding
Dory.
Although this
movie (Alice Through the Looking Glass) came out before Finding Dory, I
took this long to see it because the excitement that led me to watch the first
part of this sequel, Alice
in Wonderland (2010), has faded over the years.
This then begs
the question: How long should sequels be apart?
For me, this
movie was already on its way down before it even started. Remember Once
Upon a Time in Wonderland in 2014? It was a spinoff of ABC’s (a
Disney-owned company) Once Upon a Time. The series failed to gain traction
and was dropped after just one season.
That was a sign
that the
2010 movie might have been a fluke. Even the 1951 Disney animated Alice
in Wonderland wasn’t well-received critically or commercially upon its
release.
Making this
movie might seem like a great business decision, but they forgot that they’d
strayed so far from the original story in the first film that the possibility
of this movie being anywhere near Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book, Through the
Looking Glass, was a fantasy in itself. When I saw the preview and read the
reviews, I was already turned off from seeing it.
In the first
film, you could totally appreciate Tim Burton’s visual style, the awesome
lighting, and the depiction of Wonderland, which could give you a visual
orgasm. The same applies here.
This movie also
features a posthumous performance from the late, great Alan Rickman, who voiced
Absolem, the Caterpillar.
Now, the plot of
this movie is as follows: a very irresponsible Alice carelessly steals the
Chronosphere, which is the heartbeat of time itself. She travels through time
in an attempt to save the Mad Hatter.
The Mad Hatter
is dying because he discovers his family is still alive and wasn’t killed by
the Jabberwocky.
So, we go on an
adventure through time, trying to save the Mad Hatter from dying of sadness.
In the end, I wish Disney hadn’t ventured down this path. The movie is boring.
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