Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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- Cast:
- Mia Wasikowska , Johnny Depp , Anne Hathaway , Helena Bonham Carter , Alan Rickman , Michael Sheen , Sacha Baron Cohen
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Wow! Such a good movie.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
It is "decent". Not extraordinary, nor a waste of time. The sad thing is that it focuses more on the sparkly scenes, like these would impact the viewer the most. In fact, the story lacks substance and this should have been the epicentre of interest. It is far from great, although it's not a disappointment. Something slipped through the fingers of the producers when they were producing this movie. Now it's another commercial film.
I enjoyed the first film, I thought it struck a good balance between the whimsical eccentricity of the source material and the modern Hollywood demand for thrill ride action. But the second time around they get it all wrong, much as they did on the second Pirates of the Caribbean. Too much rushing around and too little humour and quirkiness. Firstly, right from the get go, they forget to maintain the vital distinction between the Fantasy World of Wonderland, where the impossible is common place, and the Real World, where the possible needs to remain within the constraints of the culture and available technology of the day, in order to be credible. So we get Alice, the teenage female Captain, sailing her Victorian sail powered merchant ship in ways that defy the laws of Real World physics (Groan) Who needs to visit Wonderland if we can bend the Real World to our will in this way? Secondly I think the decision to try and explain the backstory and motivation of the previous film's characters and situations was misguided. We don't need to know this, and it goes against the whole idea of "Wonderland", once things are explained, they often lose much of their "Magic", their wonder. The Queen of Hearts happens to be a bitch and she serves a purpose in the story, that is her only "why", we aren't supposed to understand or feel sorry for her. The fun of Wonderland is in the novelty of the experience and trying to explain it only dilutes or destroys that. Thirdly they don't introduce enough new characters or situations with the requisite quirkiness, the original is a parade of quirky characters, this one only has a few, with the space between filled up with, briefly, revisiting old ones and, mainly, by pointless rushing about. I enjoyed Sacha Baron-Cohen's "Time", but his assistants were merely derivative of other movies tiny mechanical robots, and there was very little else we hadn't already seen in the first movie. Too whoever wrote the script for this one I say "Off with their heads!"
Good (prequel) sequel film... it's very much in the 'spirit' of the earlier film (Alice in Wonderland 2010). Not much else to say about the film - if you like the first one then watch this one for more of about the same (with a different story of course).I'll ditto what I said of the 2010 film... The Carter-Depp-Burton Trio works well again for this film set.Love the artworks, costumes, set, colours, cinematography, direction, - you name it - I love it! 9/10
Having used the books by Lewis Carroll for the first film there's really nowhere for this sequel (an unneeded one at that) to go in terms of plot.It manages to cobble something together, that is equally as nonsensical as anything Carroll dreamed up, but apart from some big names popping up in their roles from last time (Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp) there is a strong sense throughout that this is a sequel for the sake for a sequel.I'm not saying the Tim Burton directed first part was a masterpiece, but at least it was grounded on something more solid.