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Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

James Bobin

Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway ...

5.4

9,446

Fantasy When Alice wakes up in Wonderland she must travel through a mysterious new world to retrieve a magical scepter that can stop the evil Lord of Time before he turns forward the clock and turns Wonderland into a barren, lifeless old world. With the help of some new friends, Alice must also uncover an evil plot to put the Queen of Hearts back on the throne.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	The sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 mega-hit “Alice in Wonderland” is loud, frantic, stunningly unfunny, off-putting and riddled with mediocre, out-of-tune work from normally outstanding actors. It’s one of the great movie disasters of 2016 (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'Alice Through the Looking Glass' is a movie for anyone who ever skimmed a passage of Lewis Carroll and thought, "This is great, but it could use a bit more 'Terminator'"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The magic is missing in this sequel (...) As Lewis Carroll should have said: Efficiency is no substitute for enchantment (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Exhausting (...) Its imagery can be striking or merely distracting, yet rarely transporting (...) a clunky composite of visual extravagance and Hollywood commonplaces about a life well lived"	NEU
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"The mediocre sequel (★½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday) matches the original’s hypercolor palette and insane visuals, though it can’t cobble together an equally engaging plot or even a coherent one (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"The problem with 'Alice' is its lack of narrative imagination (...) There’s nothing technically wrong with the film. The computer effects are loud and occasionally obnoxious, yet skillfully designed."	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"A follow-up that’s even weaker than its predecessor. In crude terms: Alice’s second trip to Underland wasn’t worth the wait. Alice’s second trip to Underland wasn’t worth the wait (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The best and maybe the only way to appreciate Alice Through the Looking Glass is to surrender to its mad digital excess and be whirled around through time and space in a world of grotesque overabundance"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A sequel that improves on the previous film (...) but it’s still a bright and shiny jumble of effects attempting to cover up the utter lack of interesting characters"	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The movie feels oddly static and more than a little airless (...) We can still lose ourselves in the extraordinary “unpossible” of Lewis’ imagination — but Looking’s story, and our emotional engagement, stay behind the glass"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A parade of gaudy CGI and strained whimsy, Alice Through The Looking Glass proves even more manic and grating than its 2010 predecessor"	NEG

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