Wednesday 1st June, me and my friend Lois (theramblingsoflois.blogspot.com) went to see Alice Through the Looking Glass at our local Vue cinema.
The film was again visually stunning. You really notice when things suddenly change mood as the colours change with it. (you kind of have to see the film to understand what i'm trying to say!) but the real question is 'Is it as good or better than the first film' and my answer is unfortunately no. The film was good and a nice trip out to the cinema but it didn't trump the first Alice in Wonderland. I personally would've wanted to see more comical lines for the Queen of hearts (Helena Bonham Carter).
The story was about how Alice (Mia Wasikowska) would have to give away her fathers ship to her previously declined spouse Hamish (Leo Bill) in order to save her home where she lives with her Mother (Lindsay Duncan). She then follows Absolom, previously a caterpillar now a butterfly (Alan Rickman) to Wonderland/Underland (it was never really made clear which it was) through a mirror/looking glass. She arrives to discover The Hatter (Johnny Depp) very unwell after he discovered the first hat he ever made which brought back memories of his lost family and Alice goes to turn back Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) to save them and restore The Hatters hapiness. In the process she runs into twists and turns which gives the film no extra quality and I can only see makes the length of the story a lot greater. It's all very predictable and went on far too long.
It wasn't all bad though and I don't want to put you off seeing it, the delivery of lines from Helena Bonham Carter were just great. A particular favourite of mine was "Oh, Alice, you always were an irksome, slurvish, interrupting thing". And it was really nice to see her and Sacha Baron Cohen teamed up again as I thought they were a great pair in Les Miserables.
Overall, I would give it a 3 Star rating.
I think I liked it more than you did ;)
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