Surprisingly incoherent and boring

best movie i've ever seen.

Awesome Movie

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

You know those scenes with time? Simply awful. I could hardly understand what he was saying. Alice's voice was annoying. No expression at all. I mean I'm no high-end critic, but jesus this movie was bad. I couldn't even sit through it, thank goodness I was watching it at home. Also, just for disclaimer's sakes, if you're watching this movie for the book itself, save your time, it's nothing like the book.

I'm not even done watching to film, I'm about 10 minutes from the end but I'm so disinterested by it that I thought I would write a review while the final scene plays. I think this title is very much a testament to the fact that money does not buy you a decent movie. Effect after effect after effect after garish colours and CGI animals. My goodness, if they had paid their tech guys a little less, and their story-writers a little more we may have had something good here. (Although in my opinion they were finished by the first movie in this series with the casting of Alice. What a vapid and uninteresting actress.) Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol is a beautiful story, and while I know they're not exactly going for a retelling, they could have thrown a few nods to it here and there. Overall, very disappointing. But in true Disney fashion, it is a pretty thing to watch.

Just saw on Netflix, not even interested to watch it but put it up to entertain my young niece while i browse away on the phone. But from the quick glances, eventually it pulled me in by the stunning visuals, beautifully crafted and unique constumes, special effects are feast for the eyes and the oh so wonderful witty and melodious dialogue was captivating and heartfelt. I never read Lewis Carroll before, only watched the movies or Disney cartoons. This is wonderful movie and a joy to watch. Main cast was amazing especially Johnny Depp, Mia and surprisingly Sacha Baron Cohen whom I'm not actually a fan, but his character was so interesting. Love this. Such an underrated movie. Watching this again later with full attention.

I enjoyed the first film, I thought it struck a good balance between the whimsical eccentricity of the source material and the modern Hollywood demand for thrill ride action. But the second time around they get it all wrong, much as they did on the second Pirates of the Caribbean. Too much rushing around and too little humour and quirkiness. Firstly, right from the get go, they forget to maintain the vital distinction between the Fantasy World of Wonderland, where the impossible is common place, and the Real World, where the possible needs to remain within the constraints of the culture and available technology of the day, in order to be credible. So we get Alice, the teenage female Captain, sailing her Victorian sail powered merchant ship in ways that defy the laws of Real World physics (Groan) Who needs to visit Wonderland if we can bend the Real World to our will in this way? Secondly I think the decision to try and explain the backstory and motivation of the previous film's characters and situations was misguided. We don't need to know this, and it goes against the whole idea of "Wonderland", once things are explained, they often lose much of their "Magic", their wonder. The Queen of Hearts happens to be a bitch and she serves a purpose in the story, that is her only "why", we aren't supposed to understand or feel sorry for her. The fun of Wonderland is in the novelty of the experience and trying to explain it only dilutes or destroys that. Thirdly they don't introduce enough new characters or situations with the requisite quirkiness, the original is a parade of quirky characters, this one only has a few, with the space between filled up with, briefly, revisiting old ones and, mainly, by pointless rushing about. I enjoyed Sacha Baron-Cohen's "Time", but his assistants were merely derivative of other movies tiny mechanical robots, and there was very little else we hadn't already seen in the first movie. Too whoever wrote the script for this one I say "Off with their heads!"