Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to help the Mad Hatter.
Director: James Bobin
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen.
Follows Alice in Wonderland (2010), 6+ {nm.
T.Burton is a producer here, so his presence is still felt.
The story is what I don't love here. Probably partly my fault for not watching carefully enough, but maybe not so much. After Alice goes through the mirror, she finds Hatter ill, and for some reason he needs his dead family brought back to life for his recovery. White Queen sends Alice to time travel for this, and we meet the personification of Time (SBC). I can't remember much of what transpires in the middle of the film, but it's plenty of green screen action again. Other than Hatter and the Queens, the characters from the first film make little more than cameos.
Visually interesting, worth another look.
Good feminist themes, since we meet Alice as Captain of her (dead) father's ship, and the action hero of the story.
Rated 6.2 (77,948)
Disney & more, dir. Bobin; 6
