alice in wonderland through the looking glass book

That's not to say it's bad (it's colorful!) - it's just nothing like the book. The Mad Hatter and the Caterpillar were back, but they were no longer the fanciful creations of a young girl's imagination the new iterations were over-the-top 'trippy,' meant to shock, like the doodles in an antisocial teen's notebook. Seven-year-old Alice from the book became a 19-year-old, returning to Wonderland (now called Underland) to slay the Red Queen. But the live action movies made no effort to stick to the original stories, instead functioning as Tim Burton fever-dream sequels.Ģ010's Alice in Wonderland threw out the plot of the book entirely, keeping the characters and amping up the crazy. Two books about a girl named Alice became a movie about a wacky cat, a pompous queen, and a garden full of singing flowers. ' She merely plays straight man to a cast of screwball comics.' Trying to cram in as many characters as possible, it also heavily edited the story, creating a hodgepodge of both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll. While Disney's 1951 animated Alice in Wonderland strove for accuracy, it got overly caught up the kookiness of Alice's new friends, leaving her with no character herself, as one of the original writers lamented to The New York Times. Yes, Through the Looking Glass is based on Lewis Carroll's book, but it seems that every film adaptation of the books brings us farther and farther away from an accurate representation. But those hoping to see an Alice Through the Looking Glass based on the book will be sorely disappointed.

The sequel to Disney's 2010 live-action adaptation of Alice in Wonderland opens on Friday, and parents with young kids who might not have the attention span for the original classic books might be tempted to use the films as a gateway to Wonderland.

Alice in wonderland through the looking glass book