There are several more songs and a few casually done dance numbers, with Mr.
And the Mad Hatter takes more than hat sizes. There are the usual rocks that talk when you sit on them, but they're not complaining. The evil Queen has very definite ideas about suitable punishment. Humpty Dumpty (who didn't make it into the Carroll or Disney versions) has taken more than a great fall. For starters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee turn out to be brother and sister. Rabbit turns up in response to the song, and leads Alice through the looking glass and into Wonderland, where things take place that no doubt have poor Lewis Carroll spinning in his grave. The song, to my surprise, was a pleasant one, appealingly performed: The days when soft-core porn was synonymous with el cheapo sleazo production values are apparently over. While he puts the make on her, she looks at the name sewn over the pocket of his work shirt and asks with earnest curiosity, "Why are you wearing a shirt with someone else's name?" We never do find out, but after Steve leaves, Alice pages through a copy of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and then sings a song about learning to be free. His name, as I recall, is Steve, which leads to one of the movie's more quietly amusing lines. Like the film’s oversaturated palette, he throws everything into his performance, but little sticks, including his inscrutable accent.We meet her first as a librarian, virginal and shy, turning down a date with the mechanic she's in love with because she's afraid he'll go too far. Franchise newcomer Sacha Baron Cohen also factors in as a madcap half-clockwork, half-human demigod who protects the device used by Alice to travel in time. Woolverton uses this development as an opportunity to offer fans something they probably never desired: an origin story, chronicling what led the Red Queen (returning scene stealer Helena Bonham Carter) to become so wicked (hint: it has to do with the Mad Hatter).
Together with some help from the White Queen ( Anne Hathaway, still affecting the stilted mannerisms that did her no favours in the first film), Alice journeys back in time to solve the riddle of what happened to the Mad Hatter’s clan and, in turn, save her friend. Once in the gloriously nonsensical world, the story abandons its feminist leanings to focus solely on Alice’s mission to save the Mad Hatter ( Johnny Depp), who has fallen ill (his orange hair morphs to white), haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his family. A plot contrivance forces Alice to return to Underland, this time via a giant mirror.
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