“Alice Through the Looking Glass” fails to correct the problems of its predecessor, and leaving just a taste even bigger disappointment.
My expectations for Alice Through the Looking Glass were not high. I remember seeing once the first film of the new Alice Disney years ago and not having enjoyed too. Revisiting the film before seeing this new release, I was surprised forming a more positive view than my original impression, but still the film was a disappointment superficially meet expectations, but for some reason tried to reconcile a world and characters beyond logic with a stereotypical story of the hero chosen – heroin, in this case
there were certain things about the idea of this sequel that seemed attractive. Tim Burton is a great director, but was evident in the first film faced Alicia at least in part on autopilot, so knowing that this time was limited produce and left direction in the hands of James Bobin , who made the excellent The Muppets 2011 and not as good but similarly entertaining sequel, invited some optimism. Also hoped that the massive amounts of money that made the first part emboldened the filmmakers to take more risks and not feel the need to put the surreal and demented characters Lewis Carroll in a story repeated a thousand times to appeal to the widest possible audience.
And indeed, the thing starts quite interesting. As the film opens we meet Alice Kingsleigh ( Mia Wasikowska ) captaining the ship of his father in a skirmish with pirates in the waters of Asia, obviously at the end of the adventure that we saw from at the end of the previous film. There is a lot of positive in this sequence, which presents not only a more active and determined Alicia – not to mention the fact that this time allow you to act Wasikowska, who was a being unemotional in the first film – but also It shows that Bobin has a better eye for the show on a large scale which Burton showed.
Burton filled his film beautiful images, but his way of filming the action sequences, particularly the boring final battle it was too bland. Bobin develops much better, with more energy and dynamism, and a scene that would not be out of place in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga is removed; Say what you want about this saga, but in regard to pure spectacle, are the high point of the film pirates
These two aspects, incidentally -. the performance Wasikowska creates a Alicia much more interesting and good direction Bobin – is maintained throughout the film. What you just sinking is the same that sank Burton: the script, and the sickening need to insert logic and a traditional heroic arc to a character and a world that are precisely the opposite of traditional, or should be
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the story begins when Alice returns to London, where he finds that his family is in serious economic difficulties, having to choose between selling the boat of her late father or lose their home due to the machinations of a Hamish jilted, the young aristocrat whose Alicia rejected marriage proposal. But soon that goes into the background when Absolem ( Alan Rickman ) appears and leads Alice to a mirror that leads to Wonderland; yes, I know the name in these films is Underland, which would be something like “Underland” in Spanish, but I do not care, I do not like the name.
Alicia is received by his friends, who you have to Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad Hatter ( Johnny Depp ) is deteriorating, crazy even more than usual by the idea that his family is still alive, even though everyone knows it is not so . To return to his friend to normal, Alice decides to confront the very time ( Sacha Baron Cohen ) to return to the past and prevent the death of the Hightopp family.
I feel I said ten thousand times between this review and my retrospective of the previous Alice , but much of what was only the story of Carroll and the film animated Disney did the same in the years ’50 it was nonsense, the absence of a more traditional argument in favor of a loose structure, such as sleep. It was a world where one could dive without having to worry about how to work the monarchical policy with different queens, or wonder about the past Hatter or the origin of the powers of the Cheshire Cat.
The film Burton broke with Carroll and former Disney establishing the Wonderland as a real place, and this sequel is deeper into their history and their characters, something that feels totally unnecessary but would be forgiven if it leads to interesting things or at least good entertainment, but both the former as the latter exists in the film only in quantities too limited.
the past Wonderland Alice explores has nothing that has not been seen a thousand times before – the child sit outside for his family, a story of the two queens in their childhood that attempts to explain why the Red Queen ( Helena Bonham Carter ) is like it is, and that is no more than a simple moral of “do not lie”, etc. -, and history leaves no Bobin even deploy the eye for the show that showed the beginning to the climax of the film itself
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and while Alicia feels much more vivid and three-dimensional here than in his previous film, still not interesting enough to carry the film as solo. Depp’s Mad Hatter passed away most of the film and doses of humor and madness are the supporting cast provides this time insufficient; the Red Queen, by far the highlight of the previous film, is criminally used little, and Sacha Baron Cohen is a welcome addition as Time, but not give you anything too interesting to do.
The film undoubtedly it looks amazing, the design world and its characters remains inspiradísimo, and the tone more colorful than Bobin prints the film makes it even more attractive visual. But at this point it is no longer enough, and pitifully Alice Through the Looking Glass has little more to offer than images bellas.
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ALICIA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ( Alice Through the Looking Glass )
Directed by James Bobin
Written by Linda Woolverton (based on stories of Lewis Carroll )
Produced by Tim Burton , Joe Roth , Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd
Edition by Andrew Weisblum
Address photography by Stuart Dryburgh
Soundtrack composed by Danny Elfman
Cast: Mia Wasikowska , Johnny Depp , Helena Bonham Carter , Sacha Baron Cohen , Anne Hathaway , Rhys Ifans , Matt Lucas , Timothy Spall , Alan Rickman , Lindsay Duncan , Stephen Fry , Michael Sheen , Matt Vogel and Leo Bill
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