Alice Through the Looking Glass

11/4/2016

**Alice returns to the wonderland for a new adventure.** Based on the nearly 150 years old children's book, and a sequel to the 2010 film. Its quite a long gap for a follow up film, but the original cast has returned and directed by 'The Muppets' famed filmmaker. So, I was not expecting it since I considered the first film an average. All I wanted was a normal live-action 'Alice in Wonderland' films, but I disliked this weird make-ups and large head characters. In that perspective, this one was much better. Still, this is not the best, but definitely a lot better than the previous one. A simple adventure story with nice graphics and performances. The Alice returns to the Wonderland for a new adventure where she has to cross the layers of the present, past and future. So in one word,

11/16/2020

A step down from the 2010 film, but <em>'Alice Through the Looking Glass'</em> is a solid film nonetheless. I enjoyed seeing this plot, largely about time, play out. The film is CGI heavy, but does look great for the vast majority. The cast are good, with Mia Wasikowska leading well and surrounded by the likes of Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. I do think the film could've been slightly shorter, with better pacing and less emphasis on the 'real world' stuff featuring Alice. The looking glass entry isn't as interesting/magical as the rabbit hole, also. Far superior to the 1998 adaptation of this 1871 Lewis Carroll novel, that's for certain.

4/16/2023

I like sequels when the characters come into there own. Better then the 1st.

1/2/2025

Six years after her first encounter with the creatures from "Wonderland", the feisty young "Alice" (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself outmanoeuvred by her scheming ex "Hamish" (Leo Bill) and disappointed with her mother (Lindsay Duncan) so a bit at a loss! What's left to do but follow a bug through a mirror above the fireplace back into a realm where she quickly discovers that the "Mad Hatter" (Johnny Depp) is in a bad way. He's missing his family who have long since died, and so she decides to get hold of a time-travel enabling "Chronosphere" and go back in time to retro-fix this disaster. Of course it's not going to be a simple operation, especially as the two royal sisters "Iracebeth" (Helena Bonham Carter) and "Mirana" (Anne Hathaway) are at loggerheads after their father (Richard Armitage

3/7/2025

"The only way to achieve the impossible, is to believe that it is possible." Yeah, that's not how words work. Impossible is by definition unachievable, it's actually a synonym for that word. I guess what the regarded little girl who has the troubles done did doing them Englishings meant was, "The only way to achieve what you think is impossible, is to believe that possible things are impossible, and then believe that if you believe that you can achieve impossible things by believing in it, you can. But make sure you pick actually possible things, or you might just get yourself killed. At best, waste an unbounded amount of time, depending on your tenacity." Well, at least that travesty of writer's brain damage told me to get the flop out of Dodge, so I'm kinda thankful it was prese