An average movie

I already saw this movie but, since it was a while ago and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out again. Since ‘Alice in Wonderland’ had been a huge hit at the box-office (it was one of the first movies to reach $1 billion worldwide gross), it wasn’t a surprise that they would go for a sequel but nobody was really asking for it, especially 6 long years later. At the time, Johnny Depp and his messy divorce with Amber Heard was blamed for the failure of this sequel at the box-office but I don’t think it was really the issue here. In fact, its predecessor already had a rather lame reputation and this sequel received some even more abysmal reviews. Anyway, even though it turned out to be watchable, it was indeed rather weak though. First of all, it started with a really over-the-top action scene with Alice as a ship captain. I mean, seriously?!? It was just so misguided. Sure, Alice was supposed to be a really special girl but they really pushed her emancipation just way too far. In fact, at that point, she was not a little girl anymore as Mia Wasikowska was around 25 years old. And what about this Chinese outfit? What did it have to do with Wonderland? Then, from this introduction,  they had to get her back to Wonderland somehow so, completely at random, she went there with some mirror and this transition was just seriously awkward. In Wonderland, they decided to get her involved in some kind of 'Back to the Future' tale which was barely entertaining with a lot of bad jokes about time. In fact, when it was all over, you wonder actually why she had to go through time after all. At least, the whole thing looked really good and there was a nice cast involved so I guess it still worth a look but probably only if you really loved the first installment.