Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), PG, ★

Horrified to be in another Alice movie.

I was tired after walking out of the screening of Alice Through the Looking Glass and that was the first time I felt like I wanted to take a positive nap from going through that negative experience of vibrant visuals but painful and plodded storytelling. Why does any actor, filmmaker or writer want to establish their firmament of visual adaptations of children's novels on this movie? Or just add this garbage onto their filmography? Well, let's jump to the point in time, I did not like this movie. Hahaha!

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) has returned to London after three years reuniting with her mother (Lindsey Duncan). Alice retreats to another room after an argument regarding a relationship and a share of the business and she sees Absolem (voiced by Alan Rickman - his final performance, RIP) who is turned into a blue butterfly. He tells Alice that she has been away for too long and as Absolem flies through a mirror, she follows. She ends up walking to a huge room in her tiny height, meaning that she is back in Wonderland.

She reunites with all of the good characters from the first movie - Mirana, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Matt Lucas), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), The Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), Bayard the Bloodhound (Timothy Spall), Mallymkun (Barbara Windsor), The March Hare (Paul Whitehouse) and the Bandersnatch. They all gather at a tea party and they tell Alice that the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is not himself and is sad and that Alice is the only person to save him. She goes to the Hatter's house to find clues that interpret that his family is alive. The Hatter thinks that she can save his family. Displeased, the Mad Hatter says that Alice is not the same person he knows.

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

This is a soulless and hopeless movie that fillers out all of the time in the world into a movie that consists of a plot that has a factor regarding Time as a character. It is one of the worst time-travel movies because there is not much to care about regarding the set-up, setting and character arc. Plus, in exception to the visuals, the story is the epitome of a comatose experience because there is nothing at stake because there are not much extraneous events to back the story up. I have to admit I almost slept during the movie. It's very boring and slow.

Who thought about this movie as being a good idea? Oh, Disney executives. All they care about is money because for two reasons: 1) the first Alice in Wonderland inexplicably made a billion dollars worldwide and they want more and 2) they are on a roll, business-wise, with acquiring Star Wars and Marvel and making them very good and huge hits financially and critically. And, also, they made a deal with Netflix recently to stream all Disney property on that portal in September. There's going to be a lot of binge-watching for the kids after they finish their homework and studying. But, this halts it because I imagine that this will be a bomb and nobody ever wanted a sequel. At least, I did not.

Mia Wasikowska looks confused and frightened most of the movie and her character did not persuade me to root for. Director James Bobin places all of the actors to do not much except explain the plot and scream and be sad. Poor Johnny Depp is having the worst week in the news (look it up) and with this movie. It is another character for him to be in makeup and be sad. There's no personality. Anne Hathaway is just pretty. I kind of like Sacha Baron Cohen's wacky performance as Time by setting up the Time Travel rules by accomplishing a mission or be trapped. Helena Bonham Carter is ok in her role as the Queen. She is not as frightening.

It is a good effort for the production design but it's like trapped in a floral shop with flowering plants but with thousands of bees collecting nectar and floral oils and stinging me and I have to get the heck out of there. This movie can put a kid to take a long nap which will be simultaneously sad and great for the parents in which they will be silent and they are wasting their money. Just look at the visual poster in the theater or on the Internet than watch this movie.

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