Alice Through the Looking Glass is a movie that starts out okay, but ends up in a rubbish bin by getting progressively worse & worse as the runtime takes its steps forward.
With an opening sea escape from enemy sails, the immediate things that'll come to your notice are the cheap acting & green screen environment. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is pushed through similar suffocations as previously, only to find her traveling through the Looking Glass to Underland, once again. While the chess pieces & Humpty Dumpty are interesting to watch, one must admit that the entry this time to the bizarre world doesn't make much sense really.
If a motion picture scores an extremely low grade on the scales of every film goers, you know the problem lies with the story & screenwriting. It is nice to see the plot continuing from where matters were left on shores of Alice in Wonderland. The first film worked wonders because, it knew what it was. You can't take big head queens or talking animals seriously, can you? Even if you try, you will never be able to explain abnormally enlarged head! Also:
Alice landing in a mental institution out of nowhere?
Time-travel is only cool when used appropriately. Makers do not have to choke the audiences by trying to do something stupid in efforts to do the opposite. While the idea of Alice collecting pieces of information from different timelines is somewhat tolerable, the execution is dreadful with a muddled up screenplay that goes back & forth endlessly! If this do not kill you, the buttload of subplots will!
The over-bloated computer generated imageries remind us of Michael Bay's Transformers films. One can still sit down & enjoy the selected few settings & architectures. Time's costume & animatronics are good. Him fast-forwarding a speech by time & the puns surrounding him are fun! When a sequel project switches from the hands of one to another director, tonal inconsistencies in film style is expected. In that case, what were lively & magical in the predecessor are the antonyms in this picture.