Alice Through the Looking Glass
PG

Alice Through the Looking Glass

It's time for a little madness.

2016 • 113 min • Adventure · Family · Fantasy

Synopsis

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

Our family guide

Best from age 7
75
Movie Knight Score
6843 reviews
  • 80 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 66 Audience · 6838 · 35%

Alice journeys back to Underland to save her friend, the Mad Hatter, who is fading away. She must travel through time, confronting the enigmatic Time itself, to alter the past and prevent a tragic event.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
0/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Some peril and chase sequences
  • Characters in distress
  • Magical transformations that could be unsettling

What it models well

  • Friendship and loyalty
  • Empathy and understanding
  • Forgiveness and redemption
  • The importance of time

Talk about it after

  • How past actions shape the present
  • Dealing with grief and loss
  • Understanding and managing strong emotions

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Top billed cast

Director: James Bobin • Crew: Linda Woolverton

Trailers & clips

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Teaser Trailer

Reviewer notes

Not recommended

"The only way to achieve the impossible, is to believe that it is possible." Yeah, that's not how words work. Impossible is by definition unachievable, it's actually a synonym for that word. I guess what the regarded little girl who has the troubles done did doing them Englishings meant was, "The only way to achieve what you think is impossible, is to believe that possible things are impossible, and then bel...

Recommended

Six years after her first encounter with the creatures from "Wonderland", the feisty young "Alice" (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself outmanoeuvred by her scheming ex "Hamish" (Leo Bill) and disappointed with her mother (Lindsay Duncan) so a bit at a loss! What's left to do but follow a bug through a mirror above the fireplace back into a realm where she quickly discovers that the "Mad Hatter" (Johnny Depp) is in a ba...

Recommended

I like sequels when the characters come into there own. Better then the 1st.

Recommended

A step down from the 2010 film, but <em>'Alice Through the Looking Glass'</em> is a solid film nonetheless. I enjoyed seeing this plot, largely about time, play out. The film is CGI heavy, but does look great for the vast majority. The cast are good, with Mia Wasikowska leading well and surrounded by the likes of Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. I do think the film coul...

Recommended

**Alice returns to the wonderland for a new adventure.** Based on the nearly 150 years old children's book, and a sequel to the 2010 film. Its quite a long gap for a follow up film, but the original cast has returned and directed by 'The Muppets' famed filmmaker. So, I was not expecting it since I considered the first film an average. All I wanted was a normal live-action 'Alice in Wonderland' films, but I disl...

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