There are five main points of dissatisfaction.
1. The core of the story is cliché.
Gorgeous pictures, strong star lineup, and finally told a story of "cherishing family, cherishing time, and being tolerant and understanding". This film uses a rigid method to forcefully and directly show the inner contradiction between Alice and her mother, the inner contradiction between the Mad Hatter and her father, and the inner contradiction between the Red and White Queen and her mother and each other. It was as if elementary school children were writing a narrative about family and growing up.
I don't understand why the core of the current movie story must be about family, childhood shadows, forgiveness and understanding. Whoever does something bad is because "Oh, this person has childhood shadows". Each protagonist must either have a conflict with his father or his mother, or else he has no father, no mother or relatives who are not good to him, causing childhood shadows. Just like the first one, isn't it good to simply tell a story about going far away?
2. The character creation fails, and the lines are bland and boring.
In addition to the restoration of the original work, the first one successfully created characters such as the rabbit, the Cheshire cat, the caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, the White Queen, and the Red Queen's lover. The White Queen is like the hypocrisy of "I never kill cute animals but I eat pigs, cattle, sheep and chicken", the madness revealed by the Red Queen's dominance, the ruthless departure of the Red Queen's lover in the end, the Cheshire cat's Honey juice smiles on and off, and the Mad Hatter ran across the entire dining table to greet Alice and other details, making the characters plump and three-dimensional. Especially the pretentiousness of the White Queen who has to wave her hand in every move, and the deliberately satirical Madonna feeling makes the characters exaggerated and vivid. Miaomiao, the Cheshire cat, is really cute without trying to be cute, and she was ready to be slapped by Miaomiao even before watching this movie. It's a pity that the characters such as Rabbit, Miaomiao, etc. in this film have become embarrassing existences that are not only not full of shapes, but are not even functional characters. It seems that just because there are these characters in the previous work, they can only be added reluctantly, and there is nothing to be cute next to them. The most unacceptable thing is that the Mad Hatter and the White Queen have all turned into NPCs without their own characteristics, wearing fancy clothes, existing to promote and explain the plot, and speaking boring lines throughout. Moreover, the characters of these two characters in this film are contradictory to the previous ones. They do not meet each other and have no continuity. The most successful White Queen who was originally created has become a true Virgin who insults people's IQ, which is sad. There shouldn't be too many NPCs in a movie that have no character and are only used to promote the plot, which greatly affects the look and feel. If many characters really don't know how to fit into the plot perfectly, instead of forcibly joining in, it is better to recreate new characters themselves.
In the previous work, Alice and the Mad Hatter's seemingly vague emotional line is one of the highlights. "Why Are Crows Like Writing Desks?" is a beautiful adaptation of the original. "You'll Forget Me" is full of sadness, but it doesn't lose the coincidence of the whole film's atmosphere and theme. The Mad Hatter turned revolutionary has been criticized by many people, but I personally think this is one of the most wonderful adaptations. While greatly improving the characters, it coincides with the chaotic era of revolution and blood at the end of the nineteenth century. In this work, the Mad Hatter turned into a fat uncle who was really deranged and forced his friends to save him, and the script used a very clumsy and inadequate reason to lead to the clue of "saving the family", which led to the destruction of this character (originally all I thought that my family was dead and I didn't focus on my family in the previous work. When I saw the blue hat on the ground, I suddenly felt that my family was not dead and I broke up with friends who didn't believe it.), and finally said some inexplicable chicken soup lines. The innocence, sadness, yellow dreams in this line, the contradictions that reality and fantasy can never be together at the right time are all gone.
3. Lack of imagination, inconsistent world view, lack of artistic conception.
For time travel, everyone is criticizing this stalk for being too vulgar. In fact, if this stalk is used properly, there is no problem. But there is a rule for movies - it's best not to have double magic, especially if you can't handle it because of space constraints and other issues. It is already a magic for Alice to travel from the real world to the underground world, and then she travels through time and space, which inevitably does not give people a sense of chaos. For example, if Harry Potter VII reveals that Voldemort is an alien, and then Harry Potter leads the wizard to work together to defeat the Trisolaran civilization...is something wrong?
The magic world also has rules, and the introduction of the second magic can easily weaken the settings and rules of the magic world itself. Moreover, the time-space travel stalk was not used well, and the imagination of time-space travel was not exerted. It just explained the old idea of "cannot change history" that has been repeated for decades. In addition to the damage to the old man of time, it did not fully reflect the influence of time and space travel on the existing rules of this underground world.
There is nothing esoteric or bizarre in the plot of the first part. If you have to summarize it, it is a story of working together to defeat the big villain and the big monster, but it is more interesting. In the mid-nineteenth century, the door to the East was opened, and the West ushered in the second industrial revolution. Navigation, business, and colonization became the themes of the world, and the whole world really began to communicate with each other on a large scale. Whether they want to or not, people everywhere are being awakened. The bizarre sights that only existed in legends before are clearly displayed before people's eyes, and the future is full of unknowable imagination. Under this background, many fantasy works have emerged all over the world, most of which are based on the theme of "Huangliang and a Dream". With many philosophies of Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterflies, everything in the world is a pseudonym.
The original work itself is a dialectical fantasy, neither good nor evil, neither joy nor sorrow. The previous work created a bizarre, absurd and exquisite underground world in a gothic way, and echoed the background of the times in reality. In addition to pleasing the audience, going to China at the end has some metaphorical meanings in it. Now this episode, this atmosphere, doesn't feel like nineteenth-century Alice in Wonderland. You can change what your mother is selling, you can change it to the thirteenth century, you can change it to the twenty-first century. It's fine for this story to take place in the world of ice and fire, or for Alice to take place in the wizarding world with the same background as Hermione.
The assembly-line reunion at the end of the story breaks all the artistic conceptions that were painstakingly created in the original work and the previous work. The further off from England, The nearer is to France. Everything in the fantasy is inherently contradictory, the red queen is crazy and fragile, the white queen is hypocritical, the previous costumes, lines, makeup, the performance of the two actors, etc. all the time reveal a subtle irony of the traditional character setting, resulting in the ending Although on the surface goodness triumphs over evil, there is a tinge of cruelty and absurdity mixed in. And Alice is even more faced with a choice between reality and fantasy, and there is no happy ending for this story. The worst thing is that this irony is directly broken in the plot setting of this work, and in the end, the crisis of doomsday is used to directly let the two of them express their hearts to each other and return to the righteous, which makes this part meaningless at all.
4. The motivations of the characters are far-fetched, the stereotyped and simple villains are whitewashed, and the general lectures of political classes.
First of all, there is a flaw in the plot arrangement. After the old man time traveled back, he said to the Mad Hatter and others, in order to punish you, your time will always stop one minute before afternoon tea. Then they can't get off the stool. But all through the movie these people have to run and jump... it doesn't seem like they can't get off the stool at all.
In the first film, the red queen has been exiled and severely punished. As a result, in the second film, there are also boyfriends and subordinates. It is like a comeback, and the film lacks due explanation. It can be regarded as a limitation of space here. But the subsequent plot related to her basically fell into a bloody case caused by a steamed bun, the difference is only the food. Because the White Queen stole fruit egg tarts and framed it for the Red Queen, the Red Queen cried and ran out the door and hit her head. Even if the story had to be written that way, the plot wasn't enough, it wasn't interesting enough.
The reason for the mother to sell the stock, mortgage the house, and force her daughter to exchange the boat for the house just to let her live a "plain and stable life" is extremely insufficient. Just for a "life like everyone else" as for selling all the guys who eat. If you are afraid of the danger of going overseas and selling stocks, you are not in a hurry to use money. The mother showed little love and support for her daughter from the beginning until the last five minutes (except for sending her to a mental hospital to give her an injection, and then a group of people came to arrest her daughter and suddenly a flash of inspiration made her daughter Run there), both brainless and selfish, the only thing he does is sell his daughter's property, making people wonder if it's biological.
The attitude of the mother here is that "because the husband goes to sea, he has no time to accompany her, and encounters many dangers. I don't want her daughter to encounter these dangers to her life", so it is better to mortgage the house and prepare for the daughter to exchange for the boat. Directly pointing out the conflict between dreams and real dangers can also turn to the feminism that directors and screenwriters want to express. In the end, I got the money by selling the house, and I can start a company without selling stocks. There is no need to deliberately create a conflict of great contrast, "I was originally a boss but went to the company to be a clerk". Otherwise, this paragraph will always make people wonder what the mother did at home to need so much cash... In the end, the paragraph that Alice agreed to sign directly lowered the protagonist and the theme together.
The ending of the Red Queen is even more incredible. In the end, the White Queen apologized, and the Red Queen accepted. The Palace of Time was overwhelmed by a wave of joy among the people. The story is over. In the previous work of the Red Queen, she persecuted so many small animals and wanted to destroy the world. In this movie, she almost destroyed the world. She even kept the hatter's family in a box for so many years. Easily taken away. Childhood shadows are such a good excuse. The current film pursues the theme of "tolerance", which is a bit excessive.
The most critical issue is that, in fact, it takes so much writing to describe in detail the childhood shadows of the characters in these fantasy realms, conflicts with family members, feelings, etc., it is meaningless at all, and only gives them the good illusory feeling that they have created. It was pulled back to the ground, which did not improve the fullness of the characters at all, but caused devastating damage, as if the underground world itself existed to educate Alice to ease her real problems. Couldn't there be a more interesting story to fill the plot?
This original work itself is a story that is considered to be "without any special educational significance." The reason why it became a masterpiece is because of a rare imagination. The previous work particularly prominently displayed this sense of psychedelicity. Wonderland is a game of chess in the hands of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, Fairchild. Everyone in the world is a fantasy, maybe Alice herself is just a character in the Red Queen's dream. But for some unknown reason, this film insists on adding some contradictions, emotions, and causes and consequences to the characters, and adding some blunt preaching to the plot, making the audience feel like they are taking a political class.
Just because the original is what it is, I don't care about real-world logic when watching movies adapted from the original. In fact, I find it a little funny that other film critics lack unified criticism logic. The biggest weakness of this movie is precisely that it cares too much about the superficial and standard so-called "logic" of the movie and is entangled in various causes and consequences. In order to achieve the general template of a movie screenwriting tutorial, it rudely sacrifices fun, sacrifices the spirit of fairy tales, and sacrifices works. character and soul. Even if the afternoon tea is always one minute away, I have to explain it wisely to achieve the first and last echoes.
Because of this feature of the original work itself, even Alice can be forgiven for stealing and stealing the life ball of Old Man Time. But the only thing that can't be forgiven is the happy ending, forcibly turning everyone into a good person, and forcibly educating everyone to cherish the damage caused by their family to the story itself. Returning to the story of the movie itself, it is almost boring, as if the blank space in a famous ink painting was filled by the child's poor pencil drawing of the moon and stars, family and classmates.
5.
Depp will not talk about the actor's acting skills. From his appearance to his acting skills, he completely collapsed. Anne Hathaway and the White Queen in 1 are not on the same level. Most of the pretentiousness and unreality have been lost, and only a beautiful face is left. The female protagonist, a pale and slightly neurotic girl in the previous work, has become a slightly fat passerby. Helena's original performance was harsh, crazy, grotesque, and the image of a tyrant holding great power disappeared. She became a middle-aged Tsundere junior high school English teacher and asked her husband's class leader Chinese teacher for a gift.
As a final note, I've always felt that this song is the theme of Alice in Wonderland...
" replied its scaly friend:
'What's the point of throwing it far away?
You know, beyond the sea,
there is another A coast.
If you are farther from England, you
will be nearer to France.
Don't be afraid, dear snail, and
go to the dance."
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