alice through the looking glass film review

Good moments and action beats do abound, but it can be a bit of vanilla watching this for the most part. It gets off to a really good start, too, with a bit of swashbuckling ship at sea stuff. Instead, we don’t crutch as much on older characters and head to new places, with different people, ideas and learn a lot of stuff that really wasn’t there before. Yes, I know, DUH its the sequel, but it really could have just tried to play “more of the same”. What’s really great is that this film is a completely different adventure than the previous film. This one has itself and singular mission and idea, and its just going to follow that. While we return to the same world, unlike last time there’s some competence here and not this feeling like you’re watching a pretty big mess in progress. It was an entertaining watch, but I’ll be moving on and probably not returning to it any time soon if ever. Its kinda one of those movies that’s just “nice”. Well, in all honestly, this is a big improvement over the previous film in this series. Sacha Baron Cohen joins the ensemble as Time, a magical being that is part human, part clock, and the late Alan Rickman-to whom the film is dedicated-is the voice of Absolem, the blue Monarch butterfly who metamorphosed from the blue caterpillar “Alice in Wonderland.” In “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the all-star cast from the 2010 blockbuster is back with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter who’s desperately searching for his family Anne Hathaway as Mirana, the kind, mild-mannered White Queen Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth, the short-tempered, big-headed Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, the heroine at the heart of the story. However, while I didn’t want a sequel, it wouldn’t take much more to improve.

And, well, I have to say it was pretty bad, and easily one of Burton’s worst. Now, since this sequel was coming out, and I knew I’d be reviewing it, the time had finally come to see this 1 billion dollar box office success story. It was met with really poor reviews and disdain from peers that I trust, so I just never got around to seeing it. The following week, my wife opened a business.

However, the film came out the same weekend in 2010 that I got married. It looked like not only would it have the Burton stamp, but it would be sort of a follow up to the original tale.

Following Sweeney Todd, I was very excited for Tim Burton to be taking on Alice In Wonderland.

Alice through the looking glass film review