![]() ![]() With its fantastical tales and riddles, it became one of the most popular works of English-language fiction. ![]() The point, in case you’ve missed it, is that Girls Can Do Anything. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. The plot has been junked up with a dumb framing device, hinted at in the earlier movie, that makes Alice the captain of her late father’s ship: In the opening sequence, she bravely guides the vessel through pirate-ridden seas. Mia Wasikowska returns as Alice, only in the movie’s vision, it’s not enough for her to simply slip into the looking-glass universe for some wild adventures. The actors may as well have been zombified and then airlifted onto the set, they appear to have so little interest in being there. James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass-a sequel to Tim Burton’s mad, cluttered 2010 Alice in Wonderland, featuring much of the same cast-feels like a movie made by committee, a picture with no rhyme, no reason and no real reason for existing other than to cash in on its predecessor’s popularity. ![]() Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is one of the trippiest children’s books ever written, a squiggly bit of tomfoolery made by a highly imaginative individual. ![]()
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