Alice Through the Looking Glass (9 of 10 stars)
This movie is a great cup of tea! It's very creative, a wonder to look at, and pretty suspenseful. This sequel gives you way more backstory on the characters and how everything is how it is in the first film and now. I also love the costumes in this movie! They're so colorful and really show the characters' personalities.
Alice ( Mia Wasikowska) has definitely changed since the first movie; she's more fun and isn't afraid of Underland/Wonderland anymore. The Mad Hatter ( Johnny Depp) is still as mad as can be but it takes an unexpected turn in this film. If you know what it's about, you'll understand. The Red Queen ( Helena Bonham Carter) is an amazing actress and her character is still a great villain and can get carried away with her own plans. The White Queen ( Anne Hathaway) is still very elegant and kind, but she's not as funny in this one as in the first movie, with her odd ways and hands always in the air. Time ( Sacha Baron Cohen) is pretty funny at times and has kind of good intentions, but plays them out wrong sometimes, causing Alice to go off and do what she thinks is best. The rest of the characters ( the Cheshire Cat, the Tweedles, Bayard, etc.) are still their good old selves with their fun and creative personalities, but aren't in it as much.
I love how they showed all the Wonderland characters as children, they were all so cute and still had their personalities! They even showed how the Red Queen's head got so big, and that's a pretty good story. I feel really bad for the Mad Hatter at times, like when they show the past of him and his father, because he doesn't know how much his dad really cares about him.
Danny Elfman, the composer for the music, did an amazing job ( as always) and even used some of the music from the first movie. The song "Just Like Fire" by P!nk is really good, but it doesn't really have an "Alice in Wonderland" mood to it, but I don't care that much. A lot of stuff happened in this film that I didn't expect, but I kind of liked that. I don't care what everyone else has said about this movie, it being bad and all that, because it's not! Just go and see it for yourself and you decide what you think about it. I'm really happy that Disney made this sequel, and it left me mad with joy. Go through the looking glass and see it!
