![]() ![]() But it’s all curiously flat and unexciting - just a lot of noise and frenetic images. The scene is full of raging oceans, frantically edited sequences of people scurrying up the ship’s mast and menacing shots of jagged rocks. It is loosely based on Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, and is the sequel to the 2010 film Alice. Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed by James Bobin, written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Tim Burton. ![]() Take the film’s opening sequence, in which Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is a captain of a ship trying to elude a fleet of pirates. For other uses of 'Alice in Wonderland', see Alice in Wonderland (disambiguation). ![]() This is a movie devoid of wonder and whimsy - a key element in any Carroll adaptation you would think. Speaking of Avatar, it was mainly on that films 3-D coattails that Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland became such a huge hit, although that noisy, jumbled. In this classic tale, Alice falls through a mirror and lands in a wonderful place called Chessland Alices journey across eight crazy squares of Chessland is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. In contrast, James Bobin’s sequel just seems overstuffed, with one dispiriting CGI sequence after another. ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ is overpacked, underwhelming How bad is the sequel to 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland”? It makes you look back with (relative) fondness at Tim Burton’s disappointing take on Lewis Carroll’s classic.Īt least Burton’s “Alice” was always visually interesting - full of Carroll’s floating cats, hookah-smoking caterpillars, bloodthirsty queens and mad hatters. “Alice: Through the Looking Glass” is an overblown series of CGI special effects in search of a movie.
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