Saturday, June 11, 2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 1 smile


Visually, “Alice Through the Looking Glass” has its moments, but pretty backgrounds and clever special effects can’t hide the incoherent story and a miscast villain. Not to mention the fact that there’s little Lewis Carroll in writer Linda Woolverton disjointed script. There’s no sense of danger for Alice as she strives to save the Hatter and the world. And what’s this about entropy destroying the universe? And going backward in time? Where did that come from? Strangely enough, this film even steals a few scenes from The Transformers. And there’s Sacha Baron Cohen. The mixture of his slapstick shtick and sinister intentions are off-putting. Compared to his performance, Johnny Depp comes across as restrained (really). This could easily be Disney’s worst high profile movie in years. It’s too confusing for children and older viewers will find the time travel poorly developed and the action sequences tedious. Skip it.

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