Roddypii Despite the special effects being sometimes great and other times 'meh', Alice Through the Looking Glass surprised me a lot! It's very funny, light and pleasant to watch. Once again we saw Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter carry the movie but Mia Wasikowska is a lot better than before.. her acting is really good in this one. The meanings about Time and Family are really well done in almost every possible way.. the 'cause and effect' is on point. Really good movie.

Screen_Blitz Tim Burton's reimagining of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' in 2010 was far from anything special, but its ability to engage the audiences with its dazzling visual imagery in an effort to distract the director's drift from the familiarity of the source material proved to be enough to make a head-spinning earning at the box office. After sitting through this film's follow-up, which picks up shortly where the end of the film left off, I was only left pondering with the question of why a sequel was even remotely necessary. With Tim Burton reassigned to the producer's chair, James Bobin takes over the director's role in attempt to squeeze the small remaining juice out of the source material, but does with results that are a bit underwhelming to say the least. This film, following the eponymous character on yet another adventure through Wonderland dazzles with just about everything from the visuals to the quirky humor that made granted appeal to its predecessor except a satisfying story. What Bobin's leaves us with is more of a roller coaster ride through a cave of wacky cartoon imagery than a cohesive family fun picture. The film focuses on Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) who disappears through a mirror and into the magical world of Wonderland where she reunites with the White Queen (played by Anne Hathaway), bobbled head twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum (both played by Matt Lucas), the chesire cat, and white rabbit. They inform her of the urgent news of the Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp) growing ill due to his depression of the loss of his family. To save the poor man from his fate, Alice must travel back in time with the help of Time "himself" (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) to change the course of events that led to the death of family at the hands of the Red Queen (played by Helena Bonham Carter).For a continuation on Lewis Carroll's classic source material, you would think that writer Linda Woolverton would come up with a premise little more thoughtful than what is sold here. Sadly, that is the only beginning of the misdeed that drives this fairy tale into diminishing effect. The best thing James Bobin's wrings out the picture is an overwhelming barrage of colorful visual design of the whimsical world of Wonderland completed with bloated CGI that pits Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska with the daunting task of interacting with mysterious creatures who only exist in the computer. Wasikowska manages to pull it off and Bobin's makes a fabulous attempt at springing the imaginative world to life. But for everything and everyone else though, that is another story. Wasikowska is left adrift in a story that, while has its moments, never gets truly engaging. The moments of excitement are scarce as the film pedaling swiftly from subplot to another without giving any of the classic supporting character a time to shine. It is especially disappointing for Johnny Depp's Mad Matter who stole the show in the previous film, and is succumbing to a performance that is more vexing than charming. If there is anyone even remotely as charming as Wasikowska here, it is Sacha Baron Cohen, giving a quirky impression of his loopy character. On the other hand, the fun is left to the climax when Alice and the rest of the characters are forced to make a daring attempt to save Wonderland as the entire place from ground is up is morphing into rust. It's too bad however, that lot of the pulse-pounding excitement is left buried under an uninspired plot while the visual effects are left to stand out with open arms. On the bright side, it does make a sweet visual ride with who happen to see this in 3-D.Alice Through the Looking Glass is an underwhelming fantasy ride that benefits from striking visual methodology that manages stick out among the uninspired mess of a story. That is not to say this doesn't make for a wholesome family entertainment, but there are certainly better options to say the least.

Howlin Wolf Family feuds... I'm surprised that Tim Burton didn't make time in his schedule to direct this... all of those simmering sibling and daddy issues would make a good loose trilogy with Wonka and Big Fish...The film tries to tackle big themes within a kaleidoscopic world - but it winds up going through the motions, and, unfortunately for a film about Time, has the feeling of drag when it should zip.

Artur Machado Without Tim Burton as director, and you did very well, Tim, to stay away. Sequel to the 2010 movie "Alice in Wonderland", this one soon starts with sexist feminist propaganda, with Alice a few years older as, just imagine, captain of a merchant ship. The innocent Alice of the first movie here is an arrogant pirate to her subordinates, she responds crookedly to her mother and steals an artifact that allows her to travel in time even though she has been warned and experienced firsthand that the past is unalterable, and she does it to help the Hatter who is dying of, just imagine, nostalgia for his 'supposedly' dead family. Then in the end all turns out well with impossible understandings: the two queens would never be friends forever and ever even being sisters, for one is notoriously insane, just as Alice's mother's change of heart is totally out of character. Moreover, the story is bad, confusing, and stumbles upon itself like the hands of a clock in infinite circles (and that is what it is about!), the visual aspect being the only redeeming factor. But what are great visuals without context or a good plot? The answer to that question is this movie.