From the beginning of the movie, Alice doesn’t even think twice about helming a ship full of large, brusque men, and she single-handedly takes out a fleet of pirate ships. Even the relationships between characters feel strained, almost like old friends from college who don’t really have anything in common anymore.Īll of that said, the Alice character is a fantastic one for little girls. It seems like her job is done, and now she’s just going through the motions. At times, she almost looks bored as she travels from one locale to another. I’m a fan of Wasikowska (and no, not just because we both have long Polish last names), but I feel on some level she’s outgrown this role. Tack on the Hatter and Red Queen’s strange, undefinable accents and speech impediments, and you have more confusion. But the scenes of dialogue, when characters are explaining their emotions and using multi-syllable words, are snore city. Your kids will be glued to the screen when Alice is travelling through the ocean of time - yes, it’s quite literally an ocean of time - as it’s the most visually engaging part of the movie. The 3D version is (like most other 3D films) more immersive, but not integral to the experience. There are many action sequences with lots of bright colours and flashy effects. Because the plot is so complicated (but not hard to understand, if that makes sense), it’s likely your child will be distracted during the two-hour runtime. There are even Minion-like characters, called Seconds, to help your child gloss over all the lengthy explanations of things. In terms of violence and sex, don’t forget this is a Disney film - of course there is nothing that’ll impact your child. READ MORE: Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, files for divorce
(One thing I will give Alice Through the Looking Glass: its “time” puns are A-level.) The moral of the story is to treasure what you have while you have it, or else it’ll be robbed from you by Time. She’s trying to go back to rectify several events that took place in the past, all in order to “save” the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp, made-up to the nines), who’s fading away from sadness.Įverybody has family issues in this movie, from the Hatter to Alice to the Red and White Queens. The movie’s point is made clear through the convoluted plot, which has Alice (Mia Wasikowska) flitting back and forth through time, using Time (personified by Sacha Baron Cohen)’s Chronosphere as transport.
If it sounds too serious for Wonderland, you’re not entirely wrong.
In Through the Looking Glass, the sequel (prequel?) to 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, her usual worries about fitting in and being too dreamy, things kids and teens care about, are long gone, replaced with more adult concerns about what to do for a living, maintaining connections with family and realizing that time is a precious commodity.
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