# Trailer for 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' looks terrific!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763 "2015-11-05T22:25:16Z")
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### Author:  [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/1 "2015-11-05T22:25:16Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiEG3Zr_Jxs)
Not sure how faithful it will be to the source material but it looks marvelous. Of course our Alice is now closer to thirty than twenty but what does that matter?
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/2 "2015-11-05T22:30:03Z")
It looks wrong! Wrong wrong wrong, in so many ways! Completely wrong!
I definitely want to see it!
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/3 "2015-11-05T22:41:10Z")
Same here.
When it hits my Netflix streaming list.
I’m not paying cash to see the Mad Hatter in chess-land.
To say nothing of the Queen of Hearts.
Nice to see the White Queen back where she belongs,though.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/4 "2015-11-05T22:42:40Z")
Given that the first one was an ugly, garish, incoherent, craptacular mess, I have no reason to believe this will be anything but, too.
That’s Sacha Baron Cohen as Time, btw, so it’s a mini _Sweeney Todd_ reunion (which, again, is not good news).
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/5 "2015-11-05T23:21:39Z")
I enjoyed the first one well enough. It took some rather gargantuan liberties with the source material, as it appears this one will too, but that doesn’t bother me. Visually it reminds me quite a bit of [American McGee’s Alice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_McGee%27s_Alice)…which I very much enjoyed.
The one thing about the first movie that really grated on me was that they kept referring to the Jabberwock as ‘Jabberwocky’; it probably shouldn’t have set my teeth on edge, but it really did.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/6 "2015-11-05T23:27:46Z")
Alice is just plain unfilmable. It has no plot and is just a case of her meeting up with wierd characters. So any movie is going to take liberties.
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### Author:  [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/7 "2015-11-05T23:36:44Z")
I didn’t mind the first movie. Everyone knows the story of Alice, and everyone has their own interpretation as to how it looks. To be honest, the actual stories are pretty feeble and make lousy movies. The attraction is in the quirky characters, situations, and logic tricks and wordplay.
The first movie took the Wonderland world and inserted a plot into it. I thought it looked good and was quite fun. No, it wasn’t the traditional Alice in Wonderland, but the important inspiration was there.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/8 "2015-11-05T23:38:58Z")
All the Pepperwinkles loved the first movie. We eagerly anticipate this one.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/9 "2015-11-07T18:01:45Z")
Another “I don’t get it.” trailer. (Could be worse: An amazing trailer for a craptastic movie.)
The first movie was rather ho-hum. This trailer suggests even more ho-hummier.
Lewis Carroll wrote some really dense, funny, intelligent stuff. I don’t expect to see much of that in this film.
A story is a lot more than special effects.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/10 "2015-11-07T18:29:45Z")
Preview looks good, the first movie was watchable enough. I’ll probably go see it. But I generally like Tim Burton films.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/11 "2015-11-08T01:00:01Z")
I liked the first one a lot. Burton wisely realized that he couldn’t make a coherent movie out of the book plot, so he made up his own plot. True to the feeling and characters, not to the story. I thought it worked well.
Looking forward to the next one.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/12 "2015-11-08T01:07:42Z")
WTF??? I just watched the trailer. Directed by James Bobin? Who the hell is that?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/13 "2015-11-08T04:09:23Z")
Mr. Bobin is currently known for directing the last two Muppet movies.
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### Author:  [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/14 "2015-11-08T05:13:17Z")
I took a university English class. The text was “The Annotated Alice in Wonderland”. I recommend getting that if you are an “Alice” fan. It explains a lot about the times, the author, and the queen. Very helpful, if you are slow like me.
As far as making a movie, it could never be as good as your imagination when reading it. My hat is off for anyone attempting it.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/15 "2015-11-08T05:32:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> I’m not paying cash to see the Mad Hatter in chess-land.
Technically, he is, though it may have been more Tenniel’s idea, I don’t remember.
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trailer-for-alice-through-the-looking-glass-looks-terrific/736763/16 "2015-11-08T12:04:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I generally like Tim Burton films.
Burton doesn’t direct this film, he’s just producing.
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> James Bobin? Who the hell is that?
As **Prof. Pepperwinkle** mentioned upthread, he directed the two most recent Muppet movies. Prior to that, he was co-creator of the Flight of the Conchords T.V. show- a collaboration that would continue into the Muppet movies as Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords wrote the songs for the two Muppet movies and Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords appears in a supporting role in _Muppets Most Wanted_.
Bobin’s work has a _completely_ different feel from Burton’s. If he’s just meant to be a middle man allowing Burton to direct by proxy, I don’t know that I’d like the result.
Anyway, Burton’s _Alice_ was one of those movies that I really wanted to like. I went into the screening pretty much already having decided I liked it without even seeing it yet. I had to actually hold dialog with myself to establish the reality that I just did not like it at all. I thought it was just a great big mess with a boring cookie cutter plot that in no way maintained the vision of the books.
If I hear _wonderful_ feedback about this sequel then I’ll go see it for $2 when it comes to my local second-run discount theater. The trailer does not give me high hopes.