Alice Through the Looking Glass(2016)

PG
Rated PG for fantasy action/peril and some language
1h 53m

Release Date: May 27, 2016 | Wide

29%
48%
A-
6.2

Alice is appointed to save her beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Queen.

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Releases

Original Release | May 27, 2016

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Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$26,858,726
Total US & Canada:
$77,041,381
Total International
$222,779,417
Total Worldwide:
$299,820,798

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Director & Top Cast

James Bobin
Director

Mia Wasikowska
Alice Kingsleigh

Johnny Depp
Hatter Tarrant Hightopp

Helena Bonham Carter
Iracebeth

Anne Hathaway
Mirana

Sacha Baron Cohen
Time

Rhys Ifans

Zanik Hightopp

Matt Lucas

Tweedledee

Lindsay Duncan

Helen Kingsleigh

Leo Bill

Hamish

Geraldine James

Actor

Andrew Scott

Dr. Addison Bennet

Richard Armitage

King Oleron

Ed Speleers

James Harcourt

Alan Rickman

Absolem

Timothy Spall

Bayard

Paul Whitehouse

Thackery

Stephen Fry

Cheshire Cat

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,Datasat,Dolby Atmos

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,Thailand,United Kingdom,India,Canada

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) has spent the past three years following in her father's footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London from China, she discovers that her ex-fiance, Hamish Ascot (Leo Bill), has taken over her father's company and plans to have Alice sell him her father's ship, "the Wonder", in exchange for her family home. Unable to make a choice, Alice runs away, and comes across her butterfly friend Absolem, who disappears through a mysterious mirror in one of the upstairs rooms, returning to Underland.There, Alice is greeted by Mirana of Marmoreal (Anne Hathaway), the White Queen, Nivens McTwisp, the White Rabbit, the Tweedles, Mallymkun, the Dormouse, Thackery Earwicket, the March Hare, Bayard, and the Cheshire Cat. They inform her that Tarrant Hightopp (Johnny Depp), the Mad Hatter is in poor health because his family is missing following the Attack of the Jabberwocky (And Tarrant believes that somehow his family has survived, even when everybody else believes they are all dead). The attack occurred shortly after his father, Zanik (Rhys Ifans), a hat retailer, seemed to reject Tarrant's gift of a hat creation.The White Queen persuades Alice to convince Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) himself to save the Mad Hatter's family in the past (by sending Alice into the past), believing her to be the only one who can save the Hatter. However, she cautions Alice about time, and that if her past self sees her future self, everything will be history. As Alice sets out, she ends up in a dreary castle, where Time himself, a demigod that is part-human, part-clock, resides. Time refuses to send Alice into the past saying that she cannot change it. As Alice tries to consult Time, she finds the Chronosphere, an object that powers all time in Underland and will allow her to travel to any time in the past.Alice ignores Time's warning that the past is unchangeable, and steals the Chronosphere, shortly after finding Iracebeth of Crims (Helena Bonham Carter), the exiled Red Queen (and the sister of the white queen), in the care of Time. Alice accidentally flies to the day of Iracebeth's coronation, where a younger Mad Hatter mocks the Red Queen when the royal crown doesn't fit on her abnormally large head. This causes Iracebeth to melt down and her father deems her emotionally unqualified to rule and passes the title of queen to her younger sister, the White Queen.Iracebeth swears revenge on Hatter and implores the White Queen to "Tell everyone the truth".. Alice learns of an event in Iracebeth's and Mirana's past that caused friction between the two and travels back in time again, hoping it will change Iracebeth's ways and stop the Jabberwocky from killing the Hatter's family. She learns that the hat that the Mad Hatter thought his father threw away was actually treasured by him. Meanwhile at the White Queen and the Red Queen's castle, at the time they are children, Mirana steals a tart from her mother and eats it. When confronted by their mother, Mirana lies about eating the tart, and Iracebeth is accused, causing her to run out of the castle. Alice sees that Iracebeth is about to run into a clock, thinking that's the event that deforms her head and personality. Alice prevents that collision but fails to change the past, as Iracebeth trips and slams her head into a stone wall instead.A weakened Time then confronts Alice after relentless searching and scolds her for putting all of time in danger. Out of panic, Alice runs into a nearby mirror back in the real world, where she wakes up in a mental hospital, diagnosed with female hysteria. As Dr. Addison Bennett (Andrew Scott), a psychiatric doctor, tries to inject her with a sedative, with her mother Helen's encouragement and help, she escapes and returns to Underland via the mirror, where she travels to Horovendush Day, when the Hightopp family was killed. Alice discovers that the Mad Hatter's family was captured by the Red Queen instead and never died. Returning to the present however, Alice discovers that the Mad Hatter is on the brink of death.Alice, close to tears, says that she believes him, and Tarrant transforms back to his normal self. The Underlandians go to the Red Queen's new organic plant castle, where the Mad Hatter finds his family shrunk and trapped in an ant farm. However, the Red Queen apprehends them and steals the Chronosphere from Alice. Ignoring Time's warning, she takes her sister back to the day she lied about the tart. By the time the Mad Hatter and Alice get there, the Red Queen and her younger self have seen each other. Time becomes irrelevant, and Underland begins to freeze in a rust. At a powerless Time's pleas, Alice and the Mad Hatter with the White Queen and now-frozen Red Queen use the Chronosphere to race back to the present as the rust proceeds to spread all over the ocean of Time and the castle, where Alice places the Chronosphere in its original place in time.With the Chronosphere stabilized, Underland, including those frozen, are reverted to normal. The Mad Hatter reunites with his family and the White Queen, and the Red Queen make amends, while Time forgives Alice for the trouble she caused, but forbids her to return. Alice bids farewell to her friends and returns to the real world through another mirror. She finds her mother is about to sign over the Wonder to Hamish (saying that it's only a ship). Helen decides to support her daughter instead. Hamish gets the Kingsleigh family home but not the ship. Alice and her mother set out to travel the world together with their own shipping company.

Storyline

Alice returns to the magical world of Underland, only to find the Hatter in a horrible state. With the help of her friends, Alice must travel through time to save the Mad Hatter and Underland's fate from the evil clutches of the Red Queen and a clock like creature, known as Time. — Ghostface Alice is back in Wonderland - but this time it was not an accident. She is on a quest to go back in time and rescue the Mad Hatter's family, but in order to do so she needs the Chronosphere - a device that enables time travel which only the human manifestation of time itself, Time has. As she journeys through time in a thrilling and dangerous adventure she learns more about why the Red Queen and the White Queen don't get along, and the actual truth about the Mad Hatter's family, but little does Alice know that you shouldn't try to change the past, but rather learn from it. — khalidaun Alice has just returned from an adventure in which she captained a ship to China and back. She now discovers that Hamish, her former fiance, has taken advantage of Alice's mother's poor financial situation, forced her to either lose her house or Alice's ship. To escape the situation with Hamish, Alice follows Absolem, a talking bug, through the mirror into another world, a world she is rather familiar with. There she finds old friends like the Mad Hatter, White Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the Cheshire Cat. The Mad Hatter is in a poor state, pining for his family who died several years ago. To correct this, Alice meets Time, and steals his most valuable possession. This brings her into contact, and conflict, yet again with the irascible, insane Red Queen. — grantss Almost robbed of everything, the intrepid captain, Alice Kingsleigh, finds herself before a pressing dilemma; however, much to her surprise, a mysterious blue trail and an enchanted looking glass will swiftly transport her back to the colourful realm of Underland. There, an ailing Hatter who longs for his long-gone family believes that they are still alive somewhere--and, to further complicate matters--his loyal companions are unable to help. Has the once-cheerful hat-maker truly gone mad? Now, only time and Alice can solve this intricate conundrum, racing against a shrewd old adversary who closely watches her every move. Can the flaxen-haired outsider save her friend from madness, and, God forbid, from an untimely demise? — Nick Riganas 1 more All