You know those scenes with time? Simply awful. I could hardly understand what he was saying. Alice's voice was annoying. No expression at all. I mean I'm no high-end critic, but jesus this movie was bad. I couldn't even sit through it, thank goodness I was watching it at home. Also, just for disclaimer's sakes, if you're watching this movie for the book itself, save your time, it's nothing like the book.

I really enjoyed the Alice in Wonderland film so I was looking forward to seeing this one. Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is captaining her father's ship, The Wonder, escaping Malay pirates and giving orders to port while her crew is going to starboard but they escape anyway. She's a year late returning to London only to find that her father has died and her jilted fiancé Hamish has taken over. Her mother has agreed to sell the family's shares in the shipping company and give up The Wonder to save her home. Absolem (Alan Rickman) turns up and Alice follows him through the Looking Glass. The Hatter (Johnny Depp) is all depressed. He is haunted by memories of his family killed by the Jabberwocky. Alice has to get the Chronosphere from Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) and return to the past to save Hatter's family. The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) is there making strange gestures with her hands but with well-groomed eyebrows this time and the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) is back and apparently off her meds again. Then Alice wakes up and everything since she went through the looking glass was a dream while she was in the insane asylum. And the Hatter's family is fine, they have been living in an ant farm. The movie goes downhill from there.

So many positive points that I can name off, some including beautiful graphics, interesting plot, unique story line, and many more.

Tim Burton's reimagining of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' in 2010 was far from anything special, but its ability to engage the audiences with its dazzling visual imagery in an effort to distract the director's drift from the familiarity of the source material proved to be enough to make a head-spinning earning at the box office. After sitting through this film's follow-up, which picks up shortly where the end of the film left off, I was only left pondering with the question of why a sequel was even remotely necessary. With Tim Burton reassigned to the producer's chair, James Bobin takes over the director's role in attempt to squeeze the small remaining juice out of the source material, but does with results that are a bit underwhelming to say the least. This film, following the eponymous character on yet another adventure through Wonderland dazzles with just about everything from the visuals to the quirky humor that made granted appeal to its predecessor except a satisfying story. What Bobin's leaves us with is more of a roller coaster ride through a cave of wacky cartoon imagery than a cohesive family fun picture. The film focuses on Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) who disappears through a mirror and into the magical world of Wonderland where she reunites with the White Queen (played by Anne Hathaway), bobbled head twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum (both played by Matt Lucas), the chesire cat, and white rabbit. They inform her of the urgent news of the Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp) growing ill due to his depression of the loss of his family. To save the poor man from his fate, Alice must travel back in time with the help of Time "himself" (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) to change the course of events that led to the death of family at the hands of the Red Queen (played by Helena Bonham Carter).For a continuation on Lewis Carroll's classic source material, you would think that writer Linda Woolverton would come up with a premise little more thoughtful than what is sold here. Sadly, that is the only beginning of the misdeed that drives this fairy tale into diminishing effect. The best thing James Bobin's wrings out the picture is an overwhelming barrage of colorful visual design of the whimsical world of Wonderland completed with bloated CGI that pits Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska with the daunting task of interacting with mysterious creatures who only exist in the computer. Wasikowska manages to pull it off and Bobin's makes a fabulous attempt at springing the imaginative world to life. But for everything and everyone else though, that is another story. Wasikowska is left adrift in a story that, while has its moments, never gets truly engaging. The moments of excitement are scarce as the film pedaling swiftly from subplot to another without giving any of the classic supporting character a time to shine. It is especially disappointing for Johnny Depp's Mad Matter who stole the show in the previous film, and is succumbing to a performance that is more vexing than charming. If there is anyone even remotely as charming as Wasikowska here, it is Sacha Baron Cohen, giving a quirky impression of his loopy character. On the other hand, the fun is left to the climax when Alice and the rest of the characters are forced to make a daring attempt to save Wonderland as the entire place from ground is up is morphing into rust. It's too bad however, that lot of the pulse-pounding excitement is left buried under an uninspired plot while the visual effects are left to stand out with open arms. On the bright side, it does make a sweet visual ride with who happen to see this in 3-D.Alice Through the Looking Glass is an underwhelming fantasy ride that benefits from striking visual methodology that manages stick out among the uninspired mess of a story. That is not to say this doesn't make for a wholesome family entertainment, but there are certainly better options to say the least.