But the sheer visual impact obviates the need-almost. MIA: character arc, intelligence, and wit. As if this menagerie isn’t enough, Bryan Singer’s thrown in an amnesiac CIA agent (Rose Byrne), just to sort of round things out. Their opponents: Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) with Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), and Cyclops (Tye Sheridan). His eager hires: Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Angel (Ben Hardy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and Storm (Alexandra Shipp). Seriously-if all of us went about our goals with that same intensity, we’d’ve conquered the universe by now. Oscar Isaac of EX MACHINA fame stars as the Apocalypse, who awakens from the ruins of the pyramids and immediately sets about finding four new Horsemen to replace his dead buddies (War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence) and take over the world. Yes, there’s a record number of them squirming about in that menage. Here’s the trailer:Īnd if that’s not enough excess for you, there’s XMEN: APOCALYSE, which has been stuffed to the gills with mutants who are even hotter than before, because this installment is a flashback. But that, ladies and gents, is the movie industry for you. It’s as if director James Bobin (THE MUPPETS) took Carroll’s characters and is stringing them through a lame story, hoping to engage the audience solely through a crowded CGI stage. Don’t try looking for that delicate subversive substory emanating from Lewis Carroll’s homage to the absurd-it’s been layered over a million times with digital excess so as to become practically non-existent. And it only gets worse: Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor)-they’re all relegated to the role of decorative pieces, and are trotted out strategically for impact. Oddly, despite all the action, it seems as if the main characters don’t do much. Coming to his rescue is Alice (Mia Wasikowska)-our thoroughly modern Victorian heroine-who’s also trying to stop the sale of her beloved ship. Helena Bonham Carter tries bravely to hold up this tapestry as she fills out the role of the feisty Red Queen directing her malice against the insipid White Queen (Ann Hathaway), while an uninspired Johnny Depp dutifully goes through the paces as the Mad Hatter wrestling a personal problem.
Add to that the manic pace of a race against time through that mirror-and it’s a visually delirious trip through an hour and a half of your life. Creatures, gadgets, colors, nooks, crannies, illusions-they’re absolutely crammed in there, smiling and grinning and screaming for your attention. You won’t find such a feast for the eyes anywhere else in theaters, probably for a long, long time. There are some things that ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is utterly unsurpassed at.
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