Not to say that the source material would have made a better film (it wouldn’t-the book is a disjointed mess, too), but this wholly unnecessary attempt fails on so many levels, it becomes more of an endurance challenge for the audience. “Through the Looking Glass” gives up even pretending that there is a movie to be made from the source material, and plows ahead with a completely contrived plot based largely on how many colors can be put on the screen at the same time. This made up for some of its need to emphasize spectacle over all else. While the first Tim Burton “Alice” was a fairly miserable experience, at least it followed the general idea of Carroll’s writing. Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. In Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Life imitates art and you’ll find yourself wishing that this whole movie has been a bad dream that you need to wake up from. For reasons that never are fully clear, we are quickly returned to Underland to endure more bastardization of Lewis Carroll’s writing in the form of an LSD flashback. There’s a little hope that the contrived plot up to that point has been an elaborate setup to show that Alice has been having a “ St. There is a scene in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” where the plot suddenly jumps to find Alice locked up in a mental institution.
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