The pair previously co-starred in “Les Miserables” and most recently worked together on “Alice In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass” and while Helena loves filming with Sacha, she admitted he can be exhausting. She is a wonderful leading lady and, despite Depp being the first name on the bill, Wasikowska is the real hero.
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Of course most of the original cast return to join Wasikowska, Depp, Bonham Carter, and Hathaway including voice actors Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman (to whom the film is dedicated), and Timothy Spall among others.
“Alice Through The Looking Glass” director James Bobin says he would like to come back for another installment of the franchise.
Ultimately, “Alice: Through the Looking Glass” is the worst example of a would-be summer movie blockbuster: An overproduced spectacle in search of an elusive story.
It’s not long before Alice follows Absolem through a large Looking-Glass mirror to Wonderland, although this time she comes face to face with the sinister looking Time (Sacha Baron Cohen), who controls time throughout the land and has the power of life and death when your time is up. So with all the famous bits already checked off, and the “rite of return” storyline over and done with, the logical step would have been to retire this new green-screen Alice like the Cheshire Cat, allowing her to vanish from sight, leaving only the grin of her impressive box office receipts. The only way to for him to get well is for Alice to find his family.
Go back down the rabbit hole with Alice and friends as the new movie Through the Looking Glass continues the fantasy adventure, following Alice as she returns to Wonderland and travels through time to help the Mad Hatter.
Similarly, the script fails to do anything interesting or inventive with the time-travel angle, instead using it to give some of the characters unnecessary origin stories.
Ever wondered about the troubled childhood of the Mad Hatter?
Alice’s chinoiserie costume is so exquisite I found myself more transfixed by its colour and design than her gently rhyming words and where they were taking her. That’s all you really need to know before springing for the 3-D version, which is the version to see if you’re going to see it at all. Don’t believe me? Go ask Alice.
Cohen will be seen essaying role of Time. A plan is quickly hatched by Mirana (Anne Hathaway), the White Queen, for Alice to sneak into the chamber of Time and travel back to before the Hatter’s family was killed. He’s also sort-of-romancing the still-shrieking Iracebeth or Red Queen, who’s again portrayed with great villainous glee by a strikingly-FXed and massively-headed Helena Bonham Carter, and her short scenes with Cohen are the funniest here, before the filmmakers do not forget to get back to all that irritatingly goofy and gooey plotting.
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It starts with the screenplay by Linda Woolverton, who was also the writer of the first film.
