It turns out that The Hatter (not named by Carroll but here called Tarrant Hightopp) suffers from even more daddy issues than George W.
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So why not open with a sea battle straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean? And why not make the central storyline a twist on the Back to the Future series, with Alice (Mia Wasikowska) called upon to traverse the years in a time machine in an effort to save her own eccentric Doc Brown, the perpetually annoying Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp in his now-standard jack-in-the-box mode)? If the previous movie gave us a few pages of needless backstory, then this one offers a War and Peace-sized volume of similar nonsense. Yet the profiteers behind this picture couldn't care less, preferring instead to lazily trigger memories of past hits rather than offer anything that might challenge or ruffle audiences. That's a real shame, because true innovation is often in short supply when it comes to family features. Because while the title suggests this is an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, director James Bobin and scripter Linda Woolverton have as much use for Carroll's wondrous text as a white rabbit does with a Wall Street Journal subscription. The Walrus and the Carpenter are nowhere to be found in this follow-up to 2010's Alice in Wonderland, meaning audiences will have to make do with the addition of Marty McFly and Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp in Alice Through the Looking Glass (Photo: Disney)ĪLICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (2016).