May 28, 2016 12:12 PM
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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has created its own lobe in my head and I always think in the morning of 6 impossible things. This movie was released in 2010 and Gawd what a long wait for its sequel…oh! Prequel. Who cares, as both are two different novels written by Lewis Carroll. Well, dreams are made of cotton candy clouds and time travelling gadgets.
This movie was due for quite a long time and it doesn’t take much time to understand what is going to be unravelled in future or past(time travel, you see). This confusion remains the essence of the whole movie till the end. From the start of the flick, I was hoping for some scrumptious scenes and laughable moments, but failed to receive so. The movie is just filled with familiar faces, lavish scenes(thanks to CGI) and fantasy adventure. Let me just pan it out more for you…
The story is about Alice(Mia Wasikowska) who is sailing the seas as a ship captain and when she comes home to find that her rejected suitor Hamish(Leo Bill) has persuaded Alice’s mom(Lindsay Duncan) into selling off her precious ship and now she will be stuck in Victorian England. Denying to live with this fate, she runs off and enters a room, which has a big magic mirror transporting her to Underland, again. There she is reunited with the madcap characters like White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, and of course the Mad Hatter. She learns that Mad Hatter(Johnny Depp) has been in depression because he is the only one that believes his family is alive, turning his orange twirls into white.
Alice is determined to help his ailing friend and decides to go in past to change the future. She steals Chronosphere from Time(Sacha Baron Cohen) and travels in Underland’s past where she learns about the relationship bitterness between Red Queen Iracebeth(Helena Bonham Carter) and White Queen Mirana(Anne Hathaway).
Director James Bobin made visually stunning movie but still lacks that quirkiness and “muchness” that we all got to experience in Alice in Wonderland. He has managed to show Alice in the same spunky character and shown all relatable characters but the whole movie, later on, becomes about time travel madness. Somewhere it starts losing the grip and becomes more of about keeping up with the story.
The sad bit is that, with time, Johnny Depp loses the screen space and I, actually, went to see the Hatter. His absence was compensated by Time, Sacha Baron Cohen and his troops Seconds, who can gather to form Minutes and Hours(pun-nacious). He has that tendency to overstay, at ‘times’ but his performance elevates the movie immensely. Anne Hathaway gets lost in the crowd and well, Helena Bonham Carter can be seen somewhere sometimes(nogging that big head).
Over all James Bobin has tried his hands in visual department but kind of fails to deliver what he yearned for. Despite, the clichéd time travel trapeze, ‘Through the Looking Glass’ still manages to create the magical world of 3D, if that’s all you seek.
To be truthful, I found this move on a paler side of Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and expected more. As most movie goers are kids for this type of movie, then I would say it’s enough for them to enjoy.
I'd rate it a 3.5
