ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
First let me start off saying that you do not need to have seen the previous film Alice In Wonderland to enjoy Alice Through The Looking Glass. This film stands on its own and delivers a fun and exciting adventure.
The movie starts with Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) on her father’s ship as the ship’s Captain. She is headstrong and doesn’t take nonsense from anyone (and as you will see, a very f\different Alice than in the first film). Pretty soon she is lead back to to the land of whimsy by no other than Alan Rickman who is the voice of Absalom, the caterpillar who is now a beautiful blue butterfly. I have to admit that upon hearing him speak I got chills.
The premise of the movie is simple, the Hatter believes that his family, of whom he once told Alice, had died, are alive and well and asks Alice to help find them. She is told that she needs to talk with Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) to help her go back into time to find the Hatter’s family . The Hatter is much more in this film than in Wonderland, yes he is still Mad as in bonkers but he is also Mad as in angry. In this film the he is much more emotionally charged, he evokes so much sympathy that you just want to reach into the screen and hug him, especially when they go back in time to when he was a little boy.
The entire film revolves around family relationships, the Hatter and his family, Alice and the relationship she has with her mother, and we even get to see why the relationship between the White Queen and the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) is so strained. I enjoyed getting the backstories of the characters since it allows you to see another point of view. Helena Bonham Carter was magnificent as the Red Queen just as she was in the first film, but this time, we see another side of her, and also the White Queen. We get an explanation as to why they are both the way they are today. I love that Disney is delving more into the Villains and exploring those pivotal moments that made them who they are.
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