If there was anyone who had the chops to take over from such a visionary director such as Burton, it is the the Muppets alumni, and frequent helmer on such TV shows as Flight Of The Conchords and Da Ali G Show. Taking over the directing reigns from Tim Burton, who remains on as producer, is The Muppets and The Muppets: Most Wanted helmer James Bobin. Alice Through The Looking Glass is positioned a third of the way through a year when the studio are enjoying huge success, following their superb Zootropolis (easily the best film we’ve seen this year), and the recent adaptation of The Jungle Book (not forgetting their other owned properties, Captain America: Civil War and the forthcoming Pixar sequel Finding Dory).
The film was a huge gamble for Disney at the time, with the movie apparently costing around $200 million to make, but it returned over $334 million on domestic soil alone, and over $1 billion in total around the world.Ī sequel was a given, even though we had to wait nearly six years for it. Tim Burton‘s first movie in this series, Alice In Wonderland from 2010 left a bad taste in the mouth for most critics, mine included, but audiences lapped up his adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book in their millions. Here’s our Alice Through The Looking Glass review. It’s just a shame the film it decorates only occasionally enchants.Была еще одна рецензия, но она у меня не открывается.Īlice Through The Looking Glass review: James Bobin takes the directing reigns from Tim Burton for Disney’s second live-action cinematic outing, adapted from Lewis Carroll’s classic books.ĭisney follow-up their huge $1 billion + grossing Alice In Wonderland. His Wonderland looks familiar, but Time’s castle - a gothic construction at the centre of a giant clock, populated by clockwork minions and containing impressive rooms of infinite hanging watches – is a design triumph. The person responsible for this is Ali G and Flight Of The Conchords man James Bobin, who continues the recent trend of TV comedy directors making surprisingly adept hands at tent pole juggernauts (see also the Russo brothers).
After the disaster of Grimsby, it’s nice to have him back on form. Eccentric and funny, he makes the interesting choice of a Werner Herzogian German accent and lends individual lines a blend of menace, absurdity and demi-godly indifference. And it’s Cohen who elevates proceedings whenever he’s onscreen. Their lack of screen time would lend proceedings a somewhat half-hearted feel if they weren’t making room for Sacha Baron Cohen as the personification of Time, from whom Alice must swipe a plot device to travel back to save the Hatter’s family. Quite why she embarks on her quest to save him, when Depp is almost as irritating as he was in the first film, is unclear, but he and fellow returning big-hitter Anne Hathaway (the White Queen) aren’t around for long.
She returns home to a vaguely sketched commercial dispute, but before she gets in too deep, she’s whisked back to Wonderland via the looking glass of the title, where Depp’s Mad Hatter is dying, haunted by how his family were killed by the Jabberwocky. This time, we drop in on Alice (a spirited Mia Wasikowska) after some years spent adventuring on the high seas – a wildly implausible opening nautical chase bodes well. It's Sacha Baron Cohen who elevates proceedings, making the interesting choice of a Werner Herzogian German accent.