Alice Through The Looking Glass: 10 Reasons It's Worse Than The Original
5. The Plot Revolves Around...Tarts?
Probably the most inane thing about the movie isn't the janky time travel mechanics but rather the fact that the plot ends up revolving around...tarts!?
That's right, Alice travels back in time to when the Red and White Queens are children, and discovers that White steals a tart from their mother and eats it, leaving the crumbs under Red's bed.
White lies and says she didn't do it, causing Red to get blamed. Red runs away and smashes her head outside, which causes her change in personality and comically large noggin. Basically, this event is the precursor for everything bad that follows.
The end of the movie sees Red trying to travel back in time and prevent White from lying, nearly causing a world-ending catastrophe. Ultimately, White apologises to her sister, and that's "all she needed to hear", apparently.
Was a plot centered around pastry really what a $170 million movie needed?