Alice Through the Looking Glass (3D)

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Good quality, great deal, thanks seller.

Five Stars
I loved the movie.

loved the movie when I saw it in the theaters
loved the movie when I saw it in the theaters, and it was still fun to watch at home. As a sequel to the first alice in wonderland they really kept the magic and imagination alive while showing a depth of the story as well.

What matter is the Hatter? (slight spoilers)
One of the biggest problems with Walt Disney’s live-action “Alice in Wonderland” is that they decided to turn the story into a chosen-one-saves-the-fantasy-kingdom clichefest.And yet, Disney manages to make the situation even worse in the unasked-for sequel, “Alice Though The Looking Glass.” It has good CGI and some fascinating new characters — particularly Sacha Baron Cohen’s incarnation of Time itself — but no amount of canned morals about family and friends can erase the fact that this movie is a trainwreck big enough to take out a station. Not only does it restrict “Wonderland” with even more rules, it turns Alice herself from a dead-eyed, bland savior to a dead-eyed, bland supervillain.After a few years as a sea captain in the Far East, Alice (Wasikowski) returns to England… only to find that her ex-fiancee is conspiring to take away her mother’s home if Alice doesn’t sign over her ship to him. Alice doesn’t care about her mother’s potential homelessness, only about not having more adventures. While she’s sulking, a butterfly leads her through a massive drawing-room mirror, and back into Underland. After some odd experiences that exist entirely as a homage to the original book, Alice meets up with her friends from the previous movie, and quickly learns that the Hatter (Johnny Depp) has become seriously depressed.So why is he depressed? He’s convinced that his dead family is still alive… somehow… and is now literally dying because Alice won’t believe him. I wish I were making that up.Since everyone inexplicably cares about the Hatter, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) immediately sends Alice off to plead with Time himself to let her travel back and save his family. A potentially world-ending paradox because a crazy man is sad? Sure, sounds like a reasonable idea. When Time refuses, Alice steals the Chronosphere — which keeps Time from falling apart — and goes on a wacky adventure through Underland’s past, with the increasingly desperate Time in hot pursuit. Can he stop her and get the Chronosphere back before either she or the Red Queen (Helena Bonham-Carter) destroy all of reality?”Alice Though the Looking Glass” is exactly the sequel you’d expect Disney to produce — since Alice vanquished the bad guys in the previous movie, it has no reason to exist except to (unsuccessfully) rake in more money. So it becomes necessary for Alice to CREATE an apocalyptic problem just so she can get the credit for solving it… which sounds like the kind of thing a supervillain would do. Yes, Alice selfishly decides to endanger an entire UNIVERSE and everyone in it… because of ONE PERSON. Everyone else can apparently just die as far as she’s concerned.And this blinkered approach is what absolutely sinks the movie — while a family-friendly moral (“appreciate your family and friends or whatever”) is hammered in, the actual movie’s message appears to be, “Everything you do is okay if you’re the designated heroine.” Throughout the movie, Wasikowski’s Alice is utterly loathsome — in England she’s selfish, bratty and immature, and in Underland she literally endangers all of reality even as Time is literally disintegrating in front of her, but considers Hatter’s life worth sacrificing everyone else’s. There is not a single reason to cheer for Alice, but we’re expected to do so anyway.Admittedly the movie has luscious CGI and some interesting visuals and ideas, such as a vast sunny, cloudy expanse filled with the stopped pocketwatches of the dead, or the adorable steampunk minions of Time. But this is a movie painfully aware that it has no right or reason to exist. So writer Linda Woolverton and director James Bobin simply fling everything they can at the plot, desperately hoping it will stick — mainly a tedious subplot about the reason the White and Red Queens hate each other, and the reason Iracebeth is a big-headed child-woman. Don’t expect this subplot to actually lead to anything; it simply sputters its way through the final act in a most unsatisfying way.I will say that Wasikowski has improved since her last outing as Alice, since there are some scenes where she shows some bland, muted emotion, but Alice is so selfish and loathsome that it ultimately amounts to very little. The other actors show little improvement — Depp’s fey, schizophrenic Hatter is as annoying as ever, and I found myself wishing he would hurry up and die. Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham-Carter play the same floaty-handed pallid ingenue and psychotic swollen-skulled child-woman, and the thin subplot about how they fell out is painfully cliched and flat.The one exception is Sacha Baron Cohen as the incarnation of Time. Not only is Cohen wonderfully sinister, silly and prickly, this guy is the true hero of the movie — as Alice brings destruction to Underland, this guy is struggling to get the Chronosphere back to save it. He literally seems to be the one and only character who ISN’T supporting the imminent destruction of EVERYTHING.It’s not hard to see why “Alice Through the Looking Glass” belly-flopped right out of the starting gate — it’s a pretty but flaccid movie with a heroine who goes from blandly boring to utterly loathsome. The only saving grace is Cohen.

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Had been waiting for a while to watch, it is great! Nice follow up!

This flick is the perfect follow-up to Alice in Wonderland! Johnny Depp is back as bizarre and entertaining as ever and perfect in the role of Mad Hatter. Lewis Carroll would be amused at how colourfully (literally) his characters have been brought to life. Great family viewing!