

She runs into a nearby mirror back into the real world, where she wakes up in a mental hospital, diagnosed with female hysteria. Alice is confronted by a weakened Time, who berates her for putting all of time in danger. She manages to move the clock out of the way, but fails to change the past as the Red Queen actually stumbles and hits her head. Alice sees her about to run into a clock and believes this to be the event that deforms her head and personality.

When confronted by their mother, she lies about eating the tart, which gets her sister accused and causes her to run out of the castle in a fit. The young White Queen steals a tart from her mother and eats it. Her father deems her unfit to rule and passes the title of queen to her younger sister, the White Queen.Īlice learns of an event in both the Queens' pasts that causes friction between the two, and she travels back in time again, hoping to change the Red Queen's character and stop the Jabberwocky from killing the Hatter's family. When her crown breaks, the Red Queen throws a tantrum that causes her head to swell. There, a younger Mad Hatter mocks the Red Queen when the royal crown does not fit her abnormal head. The Red Queen orders Time to pursue Alice, who accidentally travels to the Red Queen's coronation. After Time tells Alice that altering the past is impossible, she steals the Chronosphere and travels back in time, shortly after finding the exiled Red Queen in Time's care. Upon entering the Castle of Eternity, Alice finds the Chronosphere, an object that controls all of time in Wonderland. The White Queen warns Alice that history will be destroyed if a person's past and present selves meet. The White Queen, believing that finding the Hatter's family is the only way to restore his health, sends Alice to consult Time and convince him to save the Hatter's family in the past. They inform her that the Mad Hatter is acting madder than usual because his family is missing.Īlice tries to console him, but he remains certain that his family survived the attack of the Jabberwocky.

Alice is greeted by the White Queen, the White Rabbit, the Tweedles, the Dormouse, the March Hare, the Bloodhound and the Cheshire Cat. Alice follows a butterfly she recognizes as the Absolem the Butterfly, who was previously a caterpillar, and returns to Wonderland through a mirror. Upon her return to London from China, she learns that her ex-fiancé, Hamish Ascot, has taken over his deceased father's company and plans to have Alice sign over her father's ship in exchange for her family home. The film was commercially unsuccessful, grossing roughly $299 million against a budget of $170 million.Īlice Kingsleigh has spent the past three years following her father's footsteps and sailing the high seas. Alice Through the Looking Glass received generally negative reviews from critics, with praise for its performances and visual effects, but criticism for its story and characters. The film premiered in London on May 10, 2016, and was theatrically released on May 27, 2016, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Alice Through the Looking Glass is second onscreen collaboration for Depp, Bonham Carter, Rickman, Spall, and Baron Cohen, all of whom previously co-starred in 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Alice then travels through time (with the "Chronosphere"), comes across friends and enemies at different points of their lives, and embarks on a race to save the Hatter before time runs out. In the film, a now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland, where she finds that the Mad Hatter is acting madder than usual and wants to discover the truth about his family. This also features Rickman, Windsor and Andrew Sachs in their final film roles prior to their deaths. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen and features the voices of Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Barbara Windsor, Matt Vogel, Paul Whitehouse, and Alan Rickman. It is based on the characters created by Lewis Carroll and is the sequel to the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, a live-action reimagining of Disney's 1951 animated film of the same name. Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 2016 American live-action/animated fantasy adventure film directed by James Bobin, written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Tim Burton, Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd, and Jennifer Todd.
