Alice Through the Looking Glass

 Alice through the Looking Glass 2016

• o  Director: James Bobin
• o   Seen by this director: Flight of the Conchords 
• o   Based on books by Lewis Carroll
• o   Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen
• o   Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Johnny Depp -  Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Slow Burn, Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Arizona Dream, Benny and Joon, Ed Wood, Don Juan DeMarco, Dead Man, Nick of Time, Donnie Brasco, The Brave, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Astronaut’s Wife, Sleepy Hollow, The Man Who Cried, Chocolat, Blow, From Hell, Lost in La Mancha, Pirates of the Caribbean (all four of them), Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Secret Window, Finding Neverland, Libertine, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Public Enemies, Alice in Wonderland, The Tourist
• Mia Wasokowska – Jane Eyre, The Kids Are All Right, Defiance
• Helena Bonham Carter – Les Misérables, Great Expectations, Life’s Too Short, Harry Potter, Toast, The King’s Speech, Alice in Wonderland, Absolutely Fabulous, Enid, Terminator Salvation, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Conversations with Other Women, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, Fight Club, Keep the Aspidistras Flying, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, Howards End, Hamlet, A Room with a View
• Why? The first one.
• Seen: 3 May 2023.

Faced with betrayal and disaster, grown up Alice (Wasokowska) flees through the looking glass amd learns that the Mad Hatter (Depp) is madder than ever and needs her help.

Are the actors embarrassed that nearly everyone hates this sequel? Granted, it’s a shallow story but funnily enough I enjoy it despite its flaws. Unlike most other reviewers, I like Dep’s prissy silliness and Bonham Carter’s royal tantrums.

 

2 ½ * of 5