![]() ![]() ![]() When Alice wakes up in Wonderland, she must travel through a mysterious new world and race against time to retrieve a magical scepter, called a chronosphere, a device that everybody wants. Most prominently, Mia Wasikowska is back in the title role, Johnny Depp - singly billed above the tile and phoning it in - returns as The Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway is back as the White Queen, and Helena Bonham Carter remains as the Red Queen.īut the ensemble cast also boasts the talents and voices of Sacha Baron Cohen, doing a (director) Werner Herzog impression as the literally mustache-twirling villain, Time the late Alan Rickman, to whom the film is dedicated, as Absolem the Caterpillar Martin Sheen as the White Rabbit Toby Jones as Time’s manservant Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Timothy Spall as the Bloodhound. Most of the original cast return for the sequel. ![]() But we never stop perceiving them as just that - effects - and rather than pulling us into the film’s spell, they distance us even further from it than we already are. Hiding its narrative and dramatic flaws beneath a flashy veneer, the film offers special effects on parade. ![]()
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