Alice Through the Looking Glass

Hello

So, I love movies. Movies and books and TV shows are everything to me. They're all I want to fill my time with. I love adventures and beautiful make-believe worlds. I've mentioned it loads before, but my favourite series is made up completely of a world unknown to normal humans, but it is huge and worldwide and filled with magic.

They're my favourite stories. The ones with magic and things that aren't possible in this world, but that have been made up in someone's head. I love that people think of these wonderfully ridiculous things, and make them real through writing. I love reading it and living in these people's worlds just for a little while, and seeing what they've thought up.

When I write, I write about adventures that I would love to go on. I write about things that I would love to happen to me, people I would love to meet and places I would love to visit. I write about things that I could never do, but can make possible in my stories.

That's what I love about Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. I love that she is able to go to this beautiful and crazy world. I love the characters she meets and that she goes on these incredible adventures that could never happen in her real world, but that she gets to live in Underland. And I get to go with her.

I especially love the characters. Alice herself is great because she's a strong female lead and I love that she gets things done and I love that she believes so strongly that anything is possible. The Hatter, of course, is my favourite. I love the way they made him look, with the too big eyes and bright hair. Time wasn't how I expected him to be from watching the trailer, he was better than I thought and not as mean. He basically spent the whole movie trying to save everyone by putting back what Alice stole, because really Alice did put everyone in danger to save the Hatter's family. I also forgot that Andrew Scott made an appearance until I saw him. And of course, me being a huge Sherlock fan, I totally flipped out and gushed over him for the entire time he was on the screen.

I've seen so many rubbish reviews about this movie. It was rated 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. But I couldn't care less about what the reviews are saying. I loved the movie. I loved the story and the characters as much as the first one. I loved seeing a younger Hatter and learning about the background of the Red Queen, and why she is the way she is.

I suppose these critics must know better than me, they've been watching movies and reviewing them for much longer than I have. I'm just a 17 year-old girl who loves to get swept away in the story. For me, Alice Through the Looking Glass was as amazing and entertaining as the first, and they both make it high up my list of favourite movies. Basically, if you loved the first one, then I think you'll love the second.

There was also a dedication at the end to Alan Rickman, which I really wasn't expecting. He voiced the caterpillar, Absolum, and the little message at the end was just a perfect way to remember him and the loss of such an amazing actor.

I think I've made it clear by how many times I've written 'I love' throughout this post about how I feel about this movie.

Never stop fangirling (or boying, whichever you prefer) :)

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