alice through the looking glass film quotes

I'm not here to review the old Alice in Wonderland or argue about whether or not it's considered blasphemous to hate on a 'classic,' but I figured you should probably know my history with the franchise before we discuss this sequel so that you know where I'm coming from. I know that wasn't the actual intentions of the story, but it fits. I'm half convinced that it's a movie about a little girl that accidentally came by some pretty hard drugs and thus went to 'Wonderland' where there is absolutely no rhyme or reason. Visually it's great and it has a lot of quotable lines, but the story is on crack.

Where did I put the original Alice in Wonderland? Bottom five. You may have known that recently I re-watched all 55 of the movies in the official Walt Disney Animation Studios cannon and ranked them. Was the classic Alice in Wonderland really this bad or was this just a really pathetic remake/sequel thing? Most would go for the second answer, but I'm going to shock the world and say a little bit of both.

I know they don't actually call it a dragon, but let's not fool ourselves. The best part of the movie was when the dragon showed up at the end.

The movie may have been visually impressive, but Alice herself was a dull character, none of the side characters were interesting, the plot was dull, and the evil queen was extremely annoying. When I first watched Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, I remember being lost, confused, and bored for most of the movie. But is it really as bad as everyone is saying? Yes. Add in some poisonous reviews and poor word of mouth and your result is a movie that only makes $26.9 million on opening weekend, which is really bad considering its predecessor opened to $116.1 million. Third mistake was not realizing that no one cares about 3D anymore. Second mistake was waiting six years to release the sequel. Disney's first mistake was that they tricked themselves into believing people wanted this sequel. Disney had the absolute perfect timing with its release as it was the next big 3D adventure after Avatar revolutionized the cinematic experience back in late 2009. So how in the frack did it earn $1 billion when no one liked it? Simple. Outside of maybe Transformers: Age of Extinction, you might actually come up empty. Like seriously, go look at the list of the 25 movies that have made at least $1 billion and try to find one in there that is more universally disliked than Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. It's the sequel that no one wanted, but the one we got anyways because the first movie made $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Alice through the looking glass film quotes