{"id":22874,"date":"2016-10-22T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22874"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:10:02","slug":"alice-through-the-looking-glass-2016-blu-raydvddigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/22\/alice-through-the-looking-glass-2016-blu-raydvddigital\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) [Blu-Ray\/DVD\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"alicethrough\"<\/a>For the five people that loved Tim Burton\u2019s \u201cAlice in Wonderland,\u201d Disney decides to give us yet another take on Lewis Carroll’s tale, as Alice ventures in to Wonderland to travel through time. And literally tries out run it as she experiences the oncoming specter of adulthood and hard decisions rearing its ugly head at her. Stepping in for Burton this time is James Bobin, who manages to assemble virtually the entire cast from the first film to tell what is essentially a very convoluted and incredibly tedious movie. Truthfully, director Bobin\u2019s film isn\u2019t as bad as Burton\u2019s first film, but Bobin spends so much time trying to Burtonize his sequel, he forgets to inject any kind of entertainment in to the nearly two hour drama adventure.<\/p>\n

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Seriously, Bobin and Disney try so hard to ape Burton that they even cast Sasha Baron Cohen as the film\u2019s antagonist who really isn\u2019t an antagonist so much as a sentient being who is the only character that doesn\u2019t whine or mope. Years after the original tale, Alice is now a sea captain for a huge boat named \u201cThe Wonder,\u201d which she uses to travel the world and honor her father\u2019s memory. When she returns after three years venturing around the world, she\u2019s shocked to learn how much things have changed. Not only have a lot of the people moved on, her mother is pushed in to a corner, forced to make a hard decision involving their home and their beautiful boat. What\u2019s worse, the person making their lives difficult is Alice\u2019s old fianc\u00e9, who is now a very powerful businessman who is delighting in spiting Alice for her dumping him.<\/p>\n

Even after three years of exploration, Alice is still a whiny and selfish young girl who finds her mother\u2019s actions involving possibly selling their boat for the sake of their home, incredibly cowardly. Just then she\u2019s called upon by her friends in Wonderland to help save the Mad Hatter. His madness has faded, sinking in to deep sadness, and he\u2019s dying from despair over the loss of his family years prior. Alice soon ventures out in to the center of reality, sneaking past the embodiment of Time. She then steals his time machine, the Chronosphere and begins looking for a way to restore the safety of Mad Hatter\u2019s family. From there she begins finding out the origins of various characters from Wonderland, and can never seem to grasp that everything in the concept of time serves a purpose and in her reality, things happen for a reason. Sadly the reasons for most of our characters\u2019 lives are nothing but goofy melodrama involving daddy complexes.<\/p>\n

Every character has lost their father or spends a good amount of time seeking approval from their father. Alice\u2019s journey is dull and overlong, Mad Hatter\u2019s plight is low stakes, and the reasoning for the Red Queen being so murderous and rotten is shockingly trivial. Bobin fills the screen with a ton of excellent CGI, but none of it ever amounts to fun, or awe inspiring action. Alice still never quite feels like a heroine, so much as a petulant child still unwilling to accept fate, even in the very end of the story. Tim Burton\u2019s iteration of \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d was a disaster, and James Bobin\u2019s follow up is a colossal waste of time that never quite musters up any enthusiasm or depth in its duration.<\/p>\n

The combo pack from Disney features a DVD copy and Digital copy voucher. \u201cBehind the Looking Glass\u201d is a nine minute walk through of the story and Alice\u2019s history on page and screen. There\u2019s also looks at Tim Burton\u2019s involvement, and returning cast and characters. \u201cA Stitch in Time: Costuming Wonderland\u201d is a nearly five minute look at the costumes with costume designer Colleen Atwood. \u201cCharacters of Underland\u201d is a nearly five minute examination of the supporting characters in the story. \u201cTime On…\u201d is a nearly two minute talk with \u201cTime\u201d who shares his thoughts on the movie. \u201cAlice Goes Through the Looking Glass: A Scene Peeler\u201d is a two and a half minute look at a key scene with an introduction from director James Bobin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlice Goes Through Time’s Castle: A Scene Peeler\u201d is a minute and a half look at another key scene with an introduction from Bobin. There\u2019s a music video from artist Pink entitled \u201cJust Like Fire,\u201d as well as a three minute behind the scenes look at the making of the music video. There\u2019s an audio commentary with director James Bobin who discusses the film, the technical details behind the film, story details, and more. It\u2019s a fun and informative commentary for fans. Finally, there\u2019s a selection of deleted scenes clocking in at almost nine minutes including \u201cAlice’s Bedroom and the Rabbit Hole,\u201d \u201cAlice Tackles Hamish,\u201d \u201cTime Comforts Racie in the Sitting Room,\u201d \u201cRacie in the Castle,\u201d and \u201cTime Can’t Follow Alice.\u201d They come with optional commentary from director James Bobin.<\/p>\n