Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Bobin
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

What It Is: Alice (Wasikowska) returns to Wonderland for the first time following her beating of the Jabbawocki and the subsequent dethroning of the evil Red Queen (Bonham Carter). This TIME she’ll have a much different threat. Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) itself. All of this to save her good friend The Mad Hatter (Depp) from his certain doom. Once again she’ll have to withstand the Red Queens best shot. With the fate of Underland at stake.

What We Think: Oh man! This movie stinks. It is a hodgepodge of CGI garbage. I am a tolerant man when it comes to Johnny Depp shenanigans but this was intolerable. Not only did I not find this entertaining at all but I found it both an assault on my senses and my sensibilities. From a narrative standpoint its lazy the acting is phoned in and only Sacha Baron Cohen seems to be bringing anything to life here. Insofar as the direction, well I have no clue what Bobin is doing here and I am unsure he does either.

Our Grade: D-, Truly an awful piece of cinematic drivel. Tim Burton didn’t direct this one but it is quite obvious to anyone that his fingerprints lay strewn about with this one and not in a good sense. A sluggish sloppy piece of slogging slobbering senselessness. If you want a superior film from Bobin look at the reboot of The Muppets. For Wasikowska and Depp look no further than Tracks which is currently on Netflix and Black Mass respectively. I do not recommend this…to anyone…ever. Do not watch this, not even if there’s a fire. Please Disney, do the right thing and end this franchise with mercy.