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It seems he is convinced that his family is still alive, when everyone knows they were killed in a Jabberwocky attack. Myriad Carroll avatars - Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas: Doctor Who, Paddington), the Cheshire Cat (the voice of Stephen Fry: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), etc, all charmless yet all serving the purpose of creating a chaotic Carroll theme-restaurant atmosphere - inform her that Hatter (Johnny Depp: Black Mass, Mortdecai) is out of sorts and needs her help.

) Alice, once back on land, runs away from men - and a few women, such as her mother (Lindsay Duncan: Birdman, Le Week-end) - trying to enforce a strict code of What Is Proper For Young Ladies by jumping through a magic mirror and heading back to the Underland, where she is less a hero in charge of her own life and more a pawn of forces outside her control, though no one either onscreen or behind it seems to realize that this isn’t a much better place than her Victorian London. (Lewis Carroll injected some elements satirizing his real world into his fiction there is no such resonance here, and there really needs to be if there is any hope that this will serve as something more than an ad for a Disney theme-park attraction. It has to get Alice back to a vaguely Carroll-esque alternate world because there’s nothing threatening in that place, safely far removed from anything approaching reality. (A female Horatio Hornblower! I’d love to see that movie.) Alice’s fearless brilliance saves all of their lives, and saves the ship: she is a hero.Īnd then that is all forgotten because that is not the sort of fantasy Glass is interested in. It’s a thrilling sequence, not least because Alice’s all-male crew appears to have no trouble following the orders of a young woman, even when those orders sound less than reasonable. Glass opens with adult Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska: Crimson Peak, Madame Bovary), now captain of an English merchant ship in 1847, executing a daring escape from pirates on the high seas. A lice Through the Looking Glass may bear even less resemblance to anything Lewis Carroll wrote than its predecessor, Tim Burton’s 2010 flick Alice in Wonderland, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it follows up on the adventure that Burton’s adaptation hinted was in store for Alice, something that Carroll would never have imagined for her.

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