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The story starts with Alice (Mia Wasikowska) on her father's ship the wonder and escaping sea pirates. After a successful escape she arrives back home to her mother(Lindsay Duncan). She finds out that her mother had sold the boat in order to keep the house. Infuriated by this, Alice attends a party hosted by Hamish (Leo Bill) to persuade him to give her back the wonder and keep their house. Hamish, still upset from when Alice rejected his marriage proposal, remains bitter and refuses her. Alice becomes upset and sad. She soon encounters Absolem (Alan Rickman) and follows him throughout the house. She enters a room and sees Absolem enter through a mirror and vanishes. She follows him into the mirror and enter Underland once again.
She soon meets her pals again, The White Queen (Anne Hathaway), The Chesire Cat (Stephen Fry), The White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Bayard (Timothy Spall), Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Matt Lucas), and the Dorm Mouse (Barbara Windsor). They are all excited to see Alice and notify her of the bad news; The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is sick and Dying. They tell her he has become more madder than before and darker. Alice, concerned about her friend, pays him a visit and notices how different the hatter has become. She thinks that he has gone mad when he explains to her that his parents are still alive and trapped somewhere. Alice tells him that is impossible and that they are dead. Upset by this, the Hatter kicks her out and turns darker than before. She tells the rest of the gang of what has happened and the White Queen tells Alice of a way she can save the Hatter.
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They all tell her she can go visit Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) and borrow his chronosphere, a time traveling device which also powers the grand clock, to go back in time and save the Hatter. She goes into the clock tower and encounters Time. He is not amused and pleased about Alice's presence and warns her that things always happens for a reason and that you cannot change the past only learn from it. She disregards his advice and steals the chronosphere when she finds out that the Red Queen (Helen Boham Carter) wants to borrow it as well.
The story proceeds with an adventure back in time. Things go haywire and awry, when the chronosphere is not in place and with Alice back in the past. A lot of things are revealed about Underland's past and about the characters. The audience learns more about Hatter's family and his origins along with the cause of the Red Queen's hunger for power and her cause of her big head. Things go from bad to worse as Alice races through time to save the Hatter, escape Time, and solve the mystery of the death of Hatter's family.
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At first, Time seems like a villain in the film, but progressively turns out to be a mediator and wants control in Underland with the Chronosphere in place. He is an antagonist at some point but he is not necessarily a villain. The story has a great pace and strong acts throughout. The cast is amazing and right on. Visuals are beautiful and scenic. Costume design was great! Especially when you hear that i was a challenge for the cast to find out how to create the character of Time and create his look. The story drags a bit before the second act but ties up all loose ends. Fans do not have to see the first film in order to understand this film. Surprisingly, this is one of the very few good movies with a strong sequel. It is sentimental and strong at times, especially in the beginning with Alice and Hatter. They can connect when Hatter talks about his loss of his father. The character development on both the Red Queen and Hatter is strong and very well developed. The movie has a strong message and theme, in life things are given to us and taken away and we must appreciate it all of it before it goes away. In addition, it also tells us to live life to the fullest because the past won't change and if we make errors, we learn from it. Lastly, it tells us to never be filled with pride and always apologize and be honest with one another, especially with family.
This movie had a great ending, despite the villain turning good at the end, it was a great film and felt very emotional towards the end. It might be the last time Alice returns to Underland, but the friendships and lessons she learned there will be timeless.
This film deserves 4.5 stars out of 5
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