The entire plot of the movie revolves around the Hatter. In all of the promotional material it’s the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) that is front and center. I’m more curious about why this movie is called Alice Through The Looking Glass when Alice (Mia Wasikowska) seems like a secondary character in this movie. We open with a ship battle that looks like something out of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and it doesn’t become less convoluted from there. I can honestly say that I was bored by this movie ten minutes in. This isn’t some wild and trippy movie that going to give you the giggles while you’re high you’re going to eat your entire bucket of popcorn and fall asleep. There isn’t anything remotely interesting going on here that we haven’t seen better sixteen years ago in the video game American McGee’s Alice. That is why one of the first things people keep asking me is “should I watch Alice Through The Looking Glass while under the influence of some sort of substance?” The truth is that there isn’t anything interesting enough going on to make the money you’ve spent on said substance worth it. The best way I’ve seen Carroll and his Alice books described is ‘long form love letters to underage girls written by a possibly drug abusing Oxford graduate’ which is pretty accurate. Ph: Peter MountainĪt this point most people know the history of Lewis Carroll who wrote the original Alice In Wonderland stories. I had low expectations going in so I hoped maybe I would leave ambivalent, if nothing else.Īlice Through The Looking Glass commits the cardinal sin of a movie based on text that was written by someone abusing drugs it’s boring but visually uninteresting. In fact Alice Through The Looking Glass is a movie that sits with Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond as ‘high profile movies I keep forgetting are coming out’. When I saw that they were making a second one I was not excited at all. Now, so many years after the fact, I can hardly find anything that I enjoy in that movie. It was one of those movies I saw and was kind of lukewarm on, but as time went on I started to hate it more and more. That being said even I couldn’t apologize for Alice In Wonderland. I’m a huge Tim Burton apologist but I do think he’s already made his best movie (it’s Big Fish). Summary: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
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