alice through the looking glass film cast

His Chronosphere enables Alice to travel back to the Hatter’s childhood and attempt to undo the bad times. To rescue him, she ventures back to Underland and has a confab with Time himself, plummily played by Sacha Baron Cohen in an accent that could perhaps best be described as Austro-Yiddish. Alice is now a buccaneering ship’s captain and the Hatter is deeply depressed about his missing family. It’s an achievement of sorts, but it's worlds away from the poignant lunacy of the Lewis Carroll books, which, except for a few of its cast of characters, this behemoth in no way resembles.Īs in Burton’s movie, which was a surprise, billion-dollar-grossing smash hit, the new film features Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as her dearest friend, the Mad Hatter. Watching it, I felt like I was viewing the piece-by-piece construction of a gigantic mechanical contraption. This 3-D sequel to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” directed by James Bobin and written by Linda Woolverton, substitutes technological phantasmagoria for genuine wonderment.

Freighted with an overload of gizmos, hardware, and special effects, “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is exhaustingly inventive.

Alice through the looking glass film cast