While the majority of the Alice in Wonderland cast returned for the sequel, Burton only produced Alice Through the Looking Glass - having instead passed the director's torch over to Disney's Muppets helmsman James Bobin. That is, of course, assuming that Alice doesn't break the timeline in the process.Īlice Though the Looking Glass is arriving on the scene some six years after director Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland opened in theaters in 2010, on its way to grossing over $1 billion worldwide and ushering in the new era of Disney live-action fairy tale re-imaginings. There, Alice learns that Hatter (Johnny Depp) has become convinced that his family - who were seemingly killed by the Jabberwocky years ago - is still alive and that Hatter is now rapidly aging, as a result of this "madness". The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and the other denizens of Wonderland thus convince Alice to take on a dangerous mission in order to save the Hatter: reach out to Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen) and use his Chronosphere (a device that allows its user to travel across the Oceans of Time) to go into the past and change Wonderland's history, saving Hatter's family from their grisly fate.
Upon returning home to London, Alice discovers that circumstances have changed with regard to both her employment and her mother Helen's (Lindsay Duncan) living situation - putting Alice at risk of both losing her ship and winding up stuck behind a desk, working as a clerk for Hamish Ascot (Leo Bill), the man who once proposed to her. However, before she can make any decision on the matter, Alice is contacted by the caterpillar-turned butterfly Absolem (Alan Rickman) and follows him through an enchanted mirror that leads to Wonderland. Alice Through the Looking Glass is more of a shiny, yet hollow, Disney product than meaningful continuation of Alice's story.Īlice Through the Looking Glass picks up three years after Alice Kinsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) made her second trip to Wonderland, during which time she has traveled to China aboard her late father's trading ship - and made plans to explore the rest of the world, too.
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