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Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)



Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)



4/10



Starring
Johnny Depp
Anne Hathaway
Mia Wasikowska
Matt Lucas


Directed by James Bobin


Disney has had a wonderful 2016 with hits like Captain America: Civil WarThe Jungle BookZootopia, 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, everything was rewritten to make the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) the lead, and the same thing happens here. If you’ve read the book, don’t bother looking for similarities—there aren’t any. For example, the poem "Jabberwocky," which can only be read by viewing it in a mirror, isn’t in this movie. The first book was set in a world of playing cards, and the second in a chess-like world, but that’s not the case here either.

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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