- RATING FOR ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FILM 2016 MOVIE
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But Alice’s main concern is her friend the Hatter, again played by Johnny Depp, who makes eccentric madness look as natural as breathing.
The late, great Alan Rickman, to whom the film is dedicated, voices the caterpillar-turned-butterfly Absolem with the wit and resonance that marked his career-long artistry. The gang’s all here, including Tweedledee/Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) and the White Queen ( Anne Hathaway). Alice also finds time to leap through a looking glass and return to Wonderland. She dragged kicking and screaming back to London to affirm her Victorian-era feminist agenda by saving her mother’s livelihood and busting the balls (well, almost) of a nasty, former suitor (Leo Bill) who’s making life hell for mom.
RATING FOR ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FILM 2016 MOVIE
Mia Wasikowska is back as Alice, now a ship’s captain eager to vanquish pirates. Movie Info Rating: PG (Some LanguageFantasy Action/Peril) Genre: Fantasy, Adventure Original Language: English Director: James Bobin Producer: Joe Roth.
RATING FOR ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS FILM 2016 SERIES
He then debuted the television series Who Is America in 2018. The script by Linda Woolverton stays surface faithful to the characters created by Lewis Carroll, but the film has lost its soul. Oh, what a deliciously horrific idea this movie was Considering that a sequel to Tim Burtons 2010 ludicrously profitable 'Alice in Wonderland' has been inevitable since that movie crossed 1 billion at the global box office, the only surprising thing about 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' is that it took so long. In Sacha Baron Cohen portrayed the villainous Time in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016). Everything is too much, making the movie look like Willy Wonka threw up all over his chocolate factory. Most wanted here is easy charm to counteract the hard sell. But the magic is missing in this sequel, as is Burton, replaced in the director’s chair by James Bobin ( Muppets Most Wanted). Like CineFiles on Facebook for updates on new articles and reviews.Sometimes an explosion of eye candy can hit the sweet spot, like it mostly did in the Tim Burton 2010 blockbuster Alice in Wonderland. If she had listened to Time, who is less of a villain and more of a level-headed authority over his own domain, the fate of all of Wonderland would never have been threatened in the first place. If she had just trusted her friend, they could have saved a bunch of time in finding a solution to their problem. Take the film from a different perspective: Alice here is written as an incredibly incompetent heroine. Even with the handful of good acting performances, the overall vision of the film is muddy and uninviting. The visual aesthetic remains somewhat glossy in its fantastical imaginings, but there is a clear paring down of high profile CG set pieces, where the best we get is a Transformers-like series of metallic creatures and a garish looking, rust-colored material that spreads like a fungus. Given the surprise success of its predecessor, Alice Through the Looking Glass looks and feels like a cash grab. Tension stems from a subset of characters delaying the inevitable, an inevitable that never really reads as particularly problematic and only proves consequential for the time it takes to quell a yawn. The major pitfall of this sequel is its inability to maintain audience interest.
Thus spells the downfall of Hathaway, Depp, and Bonham-Carter, whose performances are more lackluster here than on the first go-around. But even the best of acting could not make the dialogue here read as natural. Wasikowska leads the charge well, and a supporting role from Sacha Baron Cohen holds up the back end. The cast does the best that they can with the script they are given. Not to mention that narrative conveniences and redundancies lead to eye-rolling revelations that move the narrative from plot point to plot point seemingly to little end.Ī pun-laden script replaces the whimsy of Carroll’s voice with cringe worthy bits of dialogue that plaster character motivation and theme at such a superficial level that even children would respond by saying: “Duh!” Although not quite for the very young, this movie is just right for the teen and older set, right through the adults. This aside, the plot simply carries little weight throughout the length of the film. The narrative as a whole is problematic in that it shares very little resemblance to the source material that bears the same name. This sequel is hampered by many elements that were not handled with enough care. Because, you know, money.Īlice Through the Looking Glass loses much of the charm that could be found in 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, although that film had problems of its own. In 19th century London, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is whisked back into Wonderland.