2) What screensaver are the film's visuals ripping off? Bright colors! Disneyĭirector James Bobin is a frequently sprightly lenser. I'm not sure even Johnny Depp would make that trade-off. So the plot of Alice Through the Looking Glass is that the "villains" are trying to keep the universe from imploding, while the heroine risks destroying everything in the name of saving Johnny Depp. Both Looking Glass and its Hatter reimagine the dangerousness of Lewis Carroll's original character, or at least the author's concept of madness, in a way that can be safely commodified.Īnyway, the entire plot of the film is that he's so sad he might die, so Alice has to travel back in time to save his family from the Jabberwocky, despite repeated warnings that changing the past will either not work or destroy the future and the fact that the time machine she steals is vital to the continued maintenance of space and time itself. He's an overgrown child whose "madness" mostly manifests itself as the kind of mass-market eccentricity that reassures parents nothing too crazy will happen, so their children can safely watch the film 100 times daily on DVD. He yearns for his long-dead family (a frequent characteristic of Depp's over-the-top weirdos). With his ghost-white makeup, his alien eyes encircled by strange purple lines, and his tufts of orange hair - all atop a body clothed in the finest shabbiness - he's like a sentient version of the "Kids can craft, too!" aisle at a Hobby Lobby that's decided to destroy its creators. Related Why is there another Alice movie? Would you believe money is involved? But where Sparrow (or even The Lone Ranger's much-derided Tonto) is the real deal, a character grounded in something deeper than the surface-level whimsy, the Hatter is all frippery.
#ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS REVIEW SERIES#
Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter is the nadir of his post–Jack Sparrow approach to character - a funny voice, a series of flourish-y gestures, and a collection of costume pieces.
1) Would you risk all of space and time to save one of Johnny Depp's more irritating characters? Save the life of my Mad Hatter. So here are five things I wondered to myself during Alice Through the Looking Glass.
#ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS REVIEW MOVIE#
At least it has a somewhat coherent plot, even if it seems blithely unaware of the fact that its protagonist very nearly destroys an entire universe just for fun.Īnd as my mind wandered while I watched, I kept coming back to questions that sort of had bearing on the movie and sort of didn't. (Its predecessor, 2010's Alice in Wonderland, made a boatload of money, which is why this film exists.) And the sad thing is that for as bad as Looking Glass is, it's probably better than the original film. So it goes with Looking Glass, one of the more unnecessary sequels in an age of unnecessary sequels. That's how desperately I wanted out of Wonderland. My brain, so exhausted and assaulted by everything happening onscreen, threw up a surrender flag, crawled into a bunker, and started amusing itself by trying to run calculations on how far a clock's hour hand travels over certain periods of time.
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