2010’s Alice in Wonderland was a dizzying mess of CGI-on-crack but still went on to gross over a billion dollars worldwide at the box office, so it’s easy to see why the studio greenlit the obligatory sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass. Today we get our first look at the follow up and the movie looks undeniably… familiar.
Vibrant colors and the abundance of CGI aggressively take front and center, reducing the characters to just inhabitants of wild and wholly computer generated set piece after set piece. Most of the characters from the first film do make an appearance though; Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Alan Rickman, who lends his voice to the Cheshire Cat. Series newcomer Sacha Baron Cohen also makes his appearance as a character known only as Time, who apparently will be the central villain.
The plot involves Alice going back to Wonderland in order to save the Mad Hatter from Time. Of course, she’ll encounter the Red Queen as well as some old and new characters along the way. The trailer seems to confirm that Depp’s Mad Hatter will be a larger focus of the sequel as the plot describes so no complaints there. Everyone loves some Depp and he’s the most bankable piece of the movie just as he was in the first Alice.
Tim Burton, who directed 2010’s Alice, served only as producer for the sequel while James Bobin served as director with a script from Linda Woolverton who also penned the previous Alice. Bobin hails from television and his only other directorial film credits are 2011’s The Muppets and 2014’s Muppets Most Wanted.
There are no indications from this trailer that Alice Through the Looking Glass will be any different from its predecessor; a CGI-on-steroids presentation of talking heads that move from one wild set piece to the next against something that sort-of resembles what’s called a narrative. Alice returns to theaters on May 27th, 2016.
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