Alice Through The Looking Glass: 10 Reasons It's Worse Than The Original

It might sound like a hollow complaint that Alice Through the Looking Glass dares to be a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, but it's also important to remember that the original film had such a divisive reception that, despite the billion-dollar box office gross, many only bothered to watch it once and then never again.

It's been a surprising six-year wait for the follow-up, and yet despite many having little inclination to revisit the original, the sequel still digs its heels in and refers explicitly to previous events that will surely have exited the minds of many years ago, namely Alice's almost-marriage to the douche Hamish (who re-appears briefly).

Considering the chasm of time between the movies, it would have been much more sensible to make this an almost completely standalone story, jettisoning every possible thread from the previous film (save for Alice and Mad Hatter's friendship, as the story requires) and basically treating it like a soft reboot.

Given how utterly nonsensical the story is anyway, it wouldn't have been that hard to get away with it.