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We spend the first 5 minutes hearing Alice go on about nothing being impossible only for her to go against everything she believes in another 5 minutes later. The narrative is heavily flawed from the start of this 2 hour slow motion car wreck. I do wonder if the dialogue in the script includes the stupid lisps and accents because if so that just makes things worse. It's littered with unfunny jokes, puns that are so bad they aren't even funny and convenient exposition like "Oh no only the return of the cronosphere can save us now." Long story short its lazy and hard to believe someone was paid to write this piece of sh*t. Its hard to care about these characters when you are simply struggling to tolerate them in the first place. Helena Bonham Carter reprises her roll as the big headed (pun intended) Queen of Hearts, sulking her irritating little way through this 2 hour cluster f*ck. Sacha Baron Cohen and Johnny Depp both suffer from stupid voice syndrome as they both speak with a lisp and an accent that only they know what they were going for there.
Mia Wasikowska's enthusiasm is so false and patronising its as if shes talking to an infant child the whole way through the film.
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We return to the ugly world full of annoying caricatures for a second and hopefully final time (for the sake of my sanity). but those 3 thing do not make a movie.Īlice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland that nobody asked for, but yet here it is. The only thing that kept my interest is the lavish photography, costumes, and marvelous graphic effects.
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Now get this - the Hatters family have been living captive in an ant farm!! The descendants of Lewis Carroll really should take legal action for just putting his name in the credits! This is an awful movie and way too long at almost two hours. It's up to 'Captain of the frigate' Alice to find them using the Chronosphere she has stolen from mumble mouth Time so she can go back in time to keep Iracebeth's head from swelling because Mirana lied about stealing a cookie and blaming it on Iracebeth and the truth will bring the Mad Hatters family back to him. (When did the Hatter become Sicilian?) And he has become a recluse. This movie, this flick, this thing, left me cold and majorly disappointed! I mean really disappointed! Who came up with this plot? To anyone reading this review here's the plot - all the tea party characters are sad because the Mad Hatter has given up on life because 'his family' is missing and presumed dead. The Mad Hatter looked like Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest dressed up as Joan Crawford dressed up as Johnny Depp dressed up as the Mad Hatter!? Alice is the Captain of a sailing Frigate!? And could you understand what Sacha Baron Cohen was saying half the time? Even Alice had some indecipherable lines! The Chronosphere, who came up with this wacky idea? I could go on and on about the goofy mess in this movie but it's not worth it. "Alice: Through the Looking Glass" is certainly an entertaining movie, but it is hardly one that you will sit down and watch again any time soon. No matter where you look there is something breathtaking. And the level of creativity is just astounding. The special effects and wardrobe teams really are the ones shining in this movie, because there are just so many wonderful things to look at throughout the movie. And it was nice to get to see more of that quirky character and get to know more of his background. I do enjoy the Mad Hatter character and Johnny Depp does a great job in portraying him. He is not an actor that I am too fond of, so in my opinion another cast would have been preferable. The Time character was interesting, but it left a less than savory taste in my mouth that they had cast Sacha Baron Cohen for this role. The actors and actresses in the movie were doing good jobs with their given roles, and it was a great treat to have the original cast return to play their characters once again. Lots of details, vivid colors and memorable characters. And it was nice to see the beloved characters from the first movie return, and also to see the amazing job that the special effects team pulled off at bringing the world to life. The effects in "Alice: Through the Looking Glass" were great, as they also were in the previous movie.
It is a good movie in itself, and works quite well as a stand-alone, if you will. "Alice: Through the Looking Glass" is not a bad movie, it just seems like a movie that hardly was necessary to have been made. Why? Well, because just what more could there be to tell about this story? With that being said, then don't get me wrong. But I wasn't in any rush to get to see the 2016 sequel "Alice: Through the Looking Glass".
I enjoyed the 2010 "Alice in Wonderland" that had that unique Tim Burton touch to it.