Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to Wonderland after finding success in the real world as a ship’s captain, only to discover that the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is suffering from severe depression. Eager to help her friend, she steals a time-travel device called the Chronosphere and journeys into the past in order to save the Hatter’s family. Elsewhere, the deposed Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) also attempts to go back in time and heal old wounds. Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Michael Sheen co-star. James Bobin (The Muppets) directed this time around, taking over from Tim Burton (who helmed 2010’s Alice in Wonderland)

“clunky composite of visual extravagance and Hollywood commonplaces about a life well lived.” –-Sheri Linden–The Hollywood Reporter

“a drab time-travel plot and thoroughly beige origin stories for otherwise colorful characters, this lackluster go-round is a mercenary backward step for Disney…” –Andrew Barker –Variety