Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Directed by James Bobin
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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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.
It was surprising to be reminded that it’s been six years since Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which makes you think maybe there wasn’t an urgent need for a sequel.
Alice in Wonderland and Tim Burton seemed like a perfect match of source material and director, but the film that resulted in 2010 was a disappointment – lacking a sense of magic, and ultimately forgettable.
Six years after Tim Burton put a trippy spin on Alice in Wonderland , the mediocre sequel (*½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday) matches the original’s hypercolor palette and insane visuals, though it can’t cobble together an equally engaging plot or even a coherent one.
“Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the sequel to the 2010 smash “Alice in Wonderland,” is a time-hopping turkey, dressing up predictable themes of forgiveness and the inability to change the past in an overly busy visual design that aims to distract from the lack of imagination on screen.
Returning to an era when family features weren't afraid to be a little scary, "Alice Through the Looking Glass" reminds on more than one occasion of 1985's notoriously freaky Disney sequel "Return to Oz."
Her mother (played by Lindsay Duncan of “About Time”) has agreed to sell the ship she inherited from her father in order to save their house.
The story begins (bizarrely) Master And Commander -style with a very spectacular storm at sea.
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I swear, that’s it: The Mad Hatter (played as creepily as ever by Johnny Depp) is sad and Alice (Mia Wasikowska) needs to figure out why and make him happy because if he continues to be sad, he will die (borrowing a plot point that worked so well in Revenge of the Sith).