Even Disney can't save "Alice in Wonderland 2: Adventures in the Looking Glass" from the mediocre sequel, although the more gorgeous and excellent special effects have created a beautiful parallel world for the movie, but that The pale story, that is, lacks due imagination, and lacks at least logical settings, which makes the film only a retrograde sequel compared to the previous work.
"In the Looking Glass" does have the same gorgeous and beautiful style as its predecessor, and the guarantee of the Disney film industry has also made this magical journey beautiful. If only from the picture, this is a Hollywood work as always. , but lost Tim Burton's ghostly charm for the perfect combination of dark humor and magical elements, James Bobin does not know how to organize these inherently grotesque elements, and the director controls The lack of the film does not make these magical elements become the foundation of the film's uniqueness, but makes the film become boring and strange and childish.
Although the film uses almost all the actors of the previous work, Johnny Depp still has a lonely Mad Hatter in madness, and Alice played by Mia Wasikowska still has her own courage and determination, but this The setting of the movie is actually the same as the previous one. The addition of the big villain "time" is just to make the movie look more gorgeous, but it is a false hypocrisy. How to connect the stories reasonably, the lack of imagination, without the golden sentence of "I like you because the crow is like a writing desk" in the previous work, the magical gorgeousness has been unable to connect with the real emotions, and the bizarre application has disappeared for the first time. of surprise.
"Alice in Wonderland" is a movie that should not have a sequel in terms of style and story, which may be the reason why Tim Burton is wise to step back from the background and not be the director, because the production In essence, the uniqueness of the movie makes it impossible to re-enact "Adventures in the Mirror" like a heroic movie. He has a director's distinctive style of work. What the former can rely on is the eye-catching grotesque and Tim Burton's unique element of humor, rather than the blueprint for the story itself. But in this sequel, the same approach, that is, it cannot meet the needs of adults for plot, and children will not like such a work that is difficult to really have the fun of Disney animation.
The flashy exterior can't cover up the inner paleness of the film, but the extremely beautiful picture is empty and ethereal.
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