The costumes and occasional digital effects are very home made looking. Unfortunately this is not a blue-tinted highly digital cartoonish action movie, but a very dry and cheap looking adaptation of what seems like a community theater version of the Through the Looking Glass story. I had higher hopes for the 1998 British TV version because it starred Kate Beckinsale of UNDERWORLD, VAN HELSING and TOTAL RECALL fame. T ( ROCKY III), near the end of his run on The A-Team, voices the Jabberwock: The 1987 made-for-TV cartoon version seemed way too shitty for me to sit through, but here’s the scene where Mr. I’m not sure I’m gonna see that one but I tried to find an earlier adaptation to watch for this SUMMER OF 2016: ORIGINS series. This summer we have ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, the sequel to Tim Burton’s worst or second worst (after PLANET OF THE APES) movie.
Luckily we got his backstory in ALICE IN WONDERLAND ORIGINS: JABBERWOCKY (1977) by Terry Gilliam. Alice finds the poem “Jabberwocky” in a book, but unfortunately it made no sense, audiences couldn’t relate. The singing flowers, the weird, rotund twin manbabies Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and the poem that they recite (“The Walrus and the Carpenter”) were all included in Disney’s 1951 animated classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND, which continues to be the best known version of the story. In the tradition of the BOURNE or FRIDAY THE 13TH series, many of the elements associated with the Alice in Wonderland intellectual propertyverse are actually from part 2. It’s just a shame Carroll gave it that cumbersome title instead of something sleek like A2: DARK REFLECTION so it would’ve caught on better. Instead of a government and military force based on playing cards, this time they’re based on chess pieces. Part 2 is a similar nonsense adventure tale where half a year later Alice decides to step through a mirror into a fantasy world on the other side for one last mission. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is Lewis Carroll’s 1871 young adult beach read sequel to the 1865 blockbuster franchise-starter Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. And fave genre author Lewis Carroll would be happy to know that his content still exists today. Maybe it doesn’t mean shit to you whippersnappers, but Alice was one of the favorite properties of many young geeks growing up in the late 19th century.
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