![]() ![]() By walking through the book a bit to refresh your “memory”. Just trying to help you out if you haven’t. I know that a lot of you have said you’ve read Through the Looking Glass… but most of you have not. But Through the Looking Glass? Not as much. Pretty good for adapting into cartoons, movies, picture books, apps… you name it… it’s been done. It culminates in her clash with the Red Queen and it’s an all around exciting book. As she goes she meets the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and a parade of fun characters. Alice falls into Wonderland and spends her time trying to make sense of it, and find her way. There is at least, a semblance of a thread to it. Alice in Wonderland as a book – and source material for a movie – is actually pretty good. We have Alice in some sort of sanitarium? Brilliant. Pink is belting out the White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. See? That could quite possibly be the greatest movie trailer of all time. ![]() It was shaping up to be a remake marvel… or was it? There was Alice’s father’s study, there she was in miniature, running across the chess set. This would be a very dark, and very realistic remake, at least at the surface of things. This was not going to be a movie I would be taking my kids to. When the initial trailer came out, I basically peed my pants in excitement. So, whenever anyone (Disney or otherwise) decides to take a stab at redoing (redeuxing?) the books, I really want to take a close look at them. You see, I’m a bit of an Alice fan (read snob) and personally believe that Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass are two of the best books ever written. Mainly my point in reviewing Disney’s latest foray into the Alice in Wonderland universe is solely to look at it through the lens of the original book. I should probably pause a moment, and sort of set expectations here for you a bit.
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