![]() This time, there is at least a chance that some of them will stick. ![]() It would be wrong to call it disciplined – it’s still made by filmmakers who throw every damn idea at the wall. Whereas the first film was a mish-mash of ideas, effects and tones, the new picture is a more focused affair. (Look closely in the new film and you’ll see a pocket-watch made by “Carroll’s of London”.) But it was the spectacular box-office success of Burton’s 2010 incarnation of the story – which also included another Carroll character, the Jabberwocky, grafted onto the climax – that has made this follow-up inevitable. Of course, Alice Through the Looking Glass isn’t Burton’s baby at all but Lewis Carroll’s. And Alice in Wonderland looks in far better nick now that Tim Burton has switched roles to become the producer of the sequel rather than its director. The Star Wars series felt moribund until George Lucas was out of the picture. Sometimes artists need to be relieved of their own creation to allow it to flourish and evolve.
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