alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis

And although Wasikowska is quite luminous and talented an actress, the movie is entertaining but not the extraordinary adaptation that Carroll's work deserves. Alan Rickman's absence is noticeable, although his voice makes an appearance at the beginning of the story. There's some humor, usually courtesy of Cohen, but otherwise this is a tale of a family lost and two sisters torn apart by a flimsy, childhood lie. James Bobin does his best to conjure the same whimsical fantasy land that Burton did the first time around, but the tone in Alice Through the Looking Glass is dark, uncomfortable, and slightly underwhelming. And the supporting players so beloved in the first film make only brief appearances, while Cohen and Carter chew up the scenery. Alice is still plucky, but now there's an edge to her, like when she angrily tells her mother that she hopes never to end up like her. The Mad Hatter is especially reduced to a grieving, unstable phantom of his previous self, leaving poor Depp with little to do other than make alternating sad, hopeful, and cheerful eyes at Alice.

Visually stimulating but uneven, this sequel owes a debt to Burton's trippy original but lacks cohesive narrative other than to explain the origins of Hatter's sadness and the Red Queen's head. But as Alice quickly finds out, stealing the chronosphere has life-altering consequences, made all the worse because the Red Queen ( Helena Bonham Carter) is also interested in stealing it and using it for her own purposes. Princess Mirana ( Anne Hathaway) tasks Alice with finding Time ( Sacha Baron Cohen), stealing his chronosphere, traveling to the past, and stopping the Hatter family's deaths.

Stripped of her satisfying career as a sea captain on her father's trading ship (thanks to her vengeful ex-fiance) and facing the prospect of life as a clerk, Alice ends up back in the other world, where the Hatter is sickly and depressed - convinced that his entire family is alive, even though everyone knows they perished in a Jabberwocky-caused fire long ago. A few years have passed since Alice, facing an engagement she didn't want, was first in Underland.

Based on Lewis Carroll's classic books, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is the sequel to 2010's Alice in Wonderland, once again starring Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

Alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis