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Mandi

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

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Absolutely beautiful but weak plot

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2021

I'll 100% admit to enjoying the trailer more than the movie. P!nk singing White Rabbit, Alan Rickman intoning... anything, pretty much. How could I not love it? (It's playing on loop while I type this, quiet as it's kept.)

As with the first, it's visually stunning, a riot of color and costumes and scenes and everything. Johnny Depp is, well, Johnny Depp. Crazy costume, crazy attitude, and quite the Hatter. Add in Alan's voice (swoon), Helena, and more for the second movie and it does match the first on a number of levels.

It's been a while since I read the book, but none of this seemed familiar - ah, thank you Wikipedia. Because it's very little to do with the book. The plot matches the oddity of the original books, but some of the secondary characters remind me more of the extended Oz universe.

Would I be in line to see another in the series - or even to watch the first two again? Not likely, there are other movies I enjoy more.

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Elle

I would like to say that after being familiar with the first ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2016

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Re: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016 Disney Adaptation (Spoilers)):
I would like to say that after being familiar with the first adaptation from Disney (by this I mean the first one directed by Tim Burton, not the 1951 animated classic) I went into this with an open mind, not expecting it to be too strictly tied into Carroll's actual book. After all, they were very loose with the first film. However, the first one was at least based in bits and pieces on plot points from both books - falling down the rabbit hole, the insanity of the queen, the poem slaying the Jabberwocky. But I'm not here to review that film. That would be a separate post. I digress.
If you're looking for a movie that is even loosely based on the work by Lewis Carroll, you're going to be quite disappointed. While it is more story driven than the first film - this one is not directed by Tim Burton (who is more concerned with visuals than story according to Mia Wasikowska, who plays Alice) it isn't a very strong story. Instead of being based on Alice, the white pawn, going across the chess board, it is based on the premise of Alice saving the family of the Mad Hatter who apparently died in some attack from the Jabberwocky, a villain from the first film and the second book. Mostly, the two films are tied together on location (Wonderland) and characters (taken from both the first and the second book, as most film adaptations of Wonderland are.) The Hatter's family's death isn't thoroughly explored, but in a way that makes some sense, as the hatter is, after all, mad.
Time is turned into a character in this film. He's referenced in the first book with the famous mad tea party scene, where they explain that it is always tea time because the Mad Hatter sang a song and the Queen of Hearts said "You're murdering the time!" He was never a real character in either book, though. In this film, he's made into... not exactly a bad guy, but something like Hades in Greek mythology - not a bad person, just doing his job, even when it's unpleasant. However, his character does not have complexity. It reminds me of the third installment of The Santa Claus movies with Tim Allen where they made Jack Frost the villain because they simply needed a villain. Through the Looking Glass as a book doesn't have a villain, and benefits from that; it wasn't necessary for the story's progression for Alice to have an adversary in either book. In both films now, an adversary has been added, to try and add drama for the silver screen. An added villain not present in the second book is the addition of the Queen of Hearts, as a lover of Time. So essentially, this movie has absolutely nothing to do with Lewis Carroll's classic book, except that it took some character names from it - at this point, I won't even say it took characters, because that would imply that the characters in the film were at all similar to their literary counter parts. I'm writing this before the film has even really had a conflict or climax, because I don't think there will be one. I do plan to finish the movie though.
On some positive notes: I will say that this film does do a very good job of staying within its own universe. The characters are not Carroll characters, but they are consistent. The visuals are - good at some points, lacking in others, honestly. The actors are excellent, even if the script is not. It is probably entertaining to children. Probably. Maybe. I'm not sure. I don't have any children to show it to.
That noted - I did finish the movie, this is the second part of the review.
This became straight up cringe worthy. The plot makes sense, but is horribly constructed and full of holes. Everything is coming at you so fast that you don't have any time to attach to any characters, or really appreciate any plot developments - like when the Hatter's family is found, you just don't really care as an audience member. Everything is far too convenient and wraps up with a nice little bow because that's what Disney does... regardless of if it makes sense, especially with these movies. At one point they even bring in young versions of the characters - which for the Hatter, makes sense, but for literally everyone else it just feels incredibly cheesy. Then at the end, in the real world, Alice's mother goes with her on a ship - that makes absolutely no sense. Her character has no consistency. The entire thing was... not in any way an adaptation of Carroll's work. I wish it had been. Then it would have had good writing and clever characters, instead of this Hallmark nonsense. I would not recommend this movie to anyone.

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C. Bennett

Bad sequel made just for money which LOST money anyway!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2021

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It's been 6 years after the first Alice blockbuster--let's get a few of the actors back together and make some MORE money off this thing, hey? Except this script has so little going for it that Tim Burton doesn't want to direct it and everyone else is just going through the motions, so it's a nothing-burger that LOSES $70M. And just hearing Johnny Depp do that tacky British lisp makes you want to wretch (yes, I really WANTED Hatter to die!).

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Defective

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2022

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Placed the disc into the DVD player and it says - not for this region. Would not play the movie

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Kazia

"It was boring. " -My four-year-old

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2016

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"It was boring." -My four-year-old daughter.

This movie was heavily marketed to my daughter via Disney Channel. She wanted to see it in theaters, but we never got around to it. So when I saw it on Amazon I thought it was a great way to spend a Saturday night. I ended up staring at my phone about 15 minutes into the movie and after about 30 minutes, she wanted to practice writing. Yes... she chose a learning activity over this movie. Don't waste your money.

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Taylor

Sound Quality is Terrible

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2019

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The movie is great but the sound/audio quality is absolutely terrible.. It skips but the movie still plays through. This happens just about every time I order a movie through Amazon.. It’s super frustrating & it never seems to be getting any better

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Meg St. Germain

Missing piece

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2019

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I originally rated this 5 stars. I am now converting all of my discs to digital and realized that the digital HD code was not included with the disc. Very frustrating as I now cannot convert it to digital.

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M H

Charged twice !!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2020

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Charged me twice for the same movie that I never finished watching !!! It says 30 days to watch it and there’s no way to get my money back!!!

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Clinton Wright

Doesn’t work

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2021

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Got brand new. Doesn’t play. Had a movie store even buff disc with machine and still doesn’t work. Not very satisfied.

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GEORGE B.

Be Careful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2016

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This movie was listed as on sale for 99 cents rental with promotional code. When I ordered it through the Amazon video channel on my tv, it charged me $6.00+ and never had a place to enter the 99 cent promotional card before it charged me. Very dissatisfied with Amazon.

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B-Frick

Blu-Ray Freeze

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2016

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The double CD Pack has a Blu-Ray and a regular DVD. This is the second one and the Blu-ray freezes up about 16-20 minutes into movie. The regular DVD works fine. I am trying to return replacement Blu-ray but there is no refund cause it was a replacement for a defective one.

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