Alice Through the Looking Glass

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)" 

"'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'" 

"The magic is missing in this sequel (...) As Lewis Carroll should have said: Efficiency is no substitute for enchantment (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)" 

"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" 

"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)" 

"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." 

"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"