rating for alice through the looking glass film 2016

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.

Rating for alice through the looking glass film 2016