I just realized that this movie is a rip-off of "Hook" - a pseudo-sequel to a classic fantasy story in which the main character grows up and forgets about his past as that fantasy character. He returns accidentally and all the characters act like they've met him before even though he doesn't remember. He denies it at first, but he must accept his past and become the hero once more.

Fun Fact: Hatter's switching accents was meant to show multiple personalities, which were brought on by his trauma after his family's deaths. In Through the Looking Glass, he doesn't switch accents in the past.

Soooo Alice in Wonderland ends with her leading the British Colonization of East Asia? Alice the Imperialist

Apparently in the book, the Queen of Hearts did punish everyone by ordering their heads chopped off. But once they were gone, the king would secretly pardon them and they'd go back to work once the queen forgot about them.

The saddest fucking part about this movie was the "flashbacks" of young Alice coming to Wonderland for the first time actually seems like a decent, fun, slightly odd take on Wonderland and would've been MILES better than what they churned out instead.

"Yeah but I'm a celebrity. When you dress weird it's crazy; when I dress weird it's avant garde" *proceeds to walk off sassily* THIS IS SUCH A GOOD SCENE AND I can't find anyone talking about it in the comments :(

It still kills me that a character who is suppose to have such an active imagination and not be normal is just so painfully bland and says everything with such little emotion or expression.

Alice's sad face: :| Alice's angry face: :| Alice's face when she wins a billion dollars: :|

Gah, the part towards the end in the real world, where Alice dances in the middle of the crowd to "show them up" or whatever...it hurts.

Burton said that he thought the book was bad and that he was improving it. I really think that says everything you need to know.

Ironically, seeing those few short seconds of Alice's flashback as a child already look like a better adaptation of Alice in Wonderland than what we got! The child actress isn't nearly as bland, the scenes are much more colorful (well, in comparison to the rest of the film at least), there's more energy to the characters, and it looks pretty fitting to the themes of being an observer in a world of insanity. Just those split second scenes were significantly better than the rest of the hour and forty-eight minutes we got

This is one of my all time favourite nostalgia critic reviews, it’s creative has lots of effort, and it’s a kind of tribute to Tim Burton with all his weirdness and creativity both good and bad.

All those in favor of the Critic reviewing "Alice Through The Looking Glass," click Like. We need more Malice and Carrotjuice, folks!

My worst complaint with this movie was making Alice in wonderland a chosen one narrative. In the book, and most other adaptations, she's the observer. I mean she does stuff to effect the world, like the part with the Queen of Hearts, but she was never the main drive of the story, the world was! Adding a chosen one narrative just gives the world a focus, WHICH ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE!

I think Malice is the Alice from the Alice madness Returns game

as a former goth kid of the 2000s, I still find myself genuinely wishing i could go to Burtonland...

RIP Alan Rickman. May his captivating voice never fade from our memories.

When the director admits he doesn't like, relate to, or even understand the source material, but thinks it would make for some good cosplay - this is what you get.

That moment when American McGee’s Alice games is closer to the books than Burton’s.

Minor thing: If the scroll foretells of every event since "the beginning", it foretells their party getting wrecked by the Jabberwocky. In a world run on complete predestination, they *can't* take precautions because they *didn't* take precautions. That scene is actually totally consistent and purely logical...Which is, of course, a huge problem for Alice in Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland (2010) - a samey Burton film that we've basically seen at least 15 times before - $1.025 *Billion* gross. The 23rd highest grossing film of *all fucking time*. Big Eyes - an actually interesting film, with *good* acting, that still let Tim Burton do plenty of Burtonisms, yet still actually tried new things and told a story we haven't seen a million times before - $29.3 Million. God fucking damn it World...

I don't even refer to this movie as an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll books. Just a movie that is only based on characters and events from them.

Tim Burton: "I want to make a version of Alice in Wonderland that is very different from the original, and has a focus on political conflict, on how the Queen of Hearts/Red Queen is a massive evil asshole, and is more a story of a hero than a mad Fustercluck, does anyone have any ideas?" "Butcher the original source material by not giving it the respect it deserves?" "Yeah Alright." Me: "Why don't you just make an adaptation of Frank Beddor's 'The Looking Glass Wars'? It would fit perfectly mate." Tim Burton: "The fuck is The Looking Glass Wars?" Me: "Just look it up, it's kind of the plot of this movie, just actually done right."

I wanna give the film credit for making the queen of hearts, knights cards. Things used for a game of cheating, bets, lack of trust, and sometimes resulting in death out of money just for anger about a card game. I feel this really sums up the queen of hearts character. While the white queens knights are supposed to look like chess pieces, A game that is strategic, calm, and requires whit, Also matching her character.

This movie had great visuals but it was so.......colourless. Everything was just shaded over in grey instead of being eye-popping and bright. Normally I don't care if something doesn't follow the source to a T as long as it makes sense but NC is right that this version didn't. Wonderland can't work as a dramatic war movie if someone can literally sip some chicken soup and turn into a kaiju. *TLDR:* this movie only exists as a corporate cash grab and so that edgy goth kids can feel unique about pretending to be emotionless and quoting the "i'm mad but all the best people are" bit.

Describes "Scottish" as separate from "British". You just made a lot of friends in Scotland. ;)

6:41 “when in doubt, stay silent” THE MOST BRITISH PHRASE IVE EVER HEARD 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Nice cosplay of Alice Madness Returns. XD

It's like they tried to turn wonderland into Narnia

Hmmm... A remake where the story is needlessly complicated, shares its title with the original work and the characters act in a dark and out of character way... Sonic 06, is that you?

Alice saying "off with your head!" was kind of badass

So if the movie takes place in Underland, then it's technically Undertale.

Tamara's British accent is actually pretty damn good.

that moment when the plotline of Critic's video is more coherent, tearjerking and powerful than the plot of the movie he's reviewing. niice.

Ever After High's 'Way Too Wonderland' is actually very tied to the book. It was done amazingly for a kids show.

When me and my best friend watched a movie we would often walk out of the theater talking about the flick we had watched. I remember us looking at each other at the same time when the credits rolled up and walking out speechless until we got into her car when she asked me "What do you think?" And all could say was. " i didnt like it." This movie is number two in my personal list of "Biggest Time Wasting Movies". I will never regain this time....and i gained nothing from it 🤦🏻‍♀️

THE TIM BURTON SONG (3:20) Danny Elfman: "It's Tim Bur-ton! "There's spirals everywhere. "It's Tim! "Let's get you fucked up hair. "It's Tim! "Where everything is style over substence but it looks good so who cares! "It's Tim! "It's Tim Bur-ton! "All angles are escew. "It's Tim! "With foggy lenses too! "It's Tim! "Where all supporting characters are Kings holding the movies under wings and all the leads are 'bout as interesting as glue! "It's Tim! "This world of such uniqueness has been done a million times: a dark and gloomy outlet for suberbianites to whine. And though it's saying little hipsters think it's saying more. It's selling much more whiteness than a rich albino whore. "Remakes! Reboots! They're making us a ton, "Of Loot! And anything that's new, Is rare, and yes the style's showing wear and tear but all the profit's clearly there and will it get old? We don't care. Try something different we don't dare! Cause our supplies of darkened dyes are making millions by the share! "TIM! BUR! TON!" Malice: "Very good. We're looking for the black rabbit if you don't mi-" Danny Elfman: "And now, the rendition with the whimsical choir that can only sing in vowls! Aaa! Aaa! Aaaaaa Aa! Ooo! Ooo! Oooooo!" Malice: "I beg your pardon but this doesn't help us." Danny Elfman: "Lalalalalalalalalalalal lolololo La!" Malice: "If you could just direct us-" Danny Elfman: Aaa! Aaa! Aaaaaa Aa! Ooo! Ooo! Oooooo! Hee Hee Lalalalalala-" Malice: "Well, I tried to be nice, excuse me."

Definitely one of Tamara's best characters, perfectly charming and sweet but also one jump cut away from a bloody splattershow~ Carrotjuice too, for that matter, but I dun't think he can be in anything else, can he?

Whenever people talk about Tim Burton they never mention The Corpse Bride which makes me sad. The Corpse Bride is my FAVORITE Tim Burton movie.

The ending really hit home for me. Proper strong message, Truely inspirational and heartwarming to see Critics love for a series of movies that shapped him into who he is now

Tamara's British accent is giving me life! She's such an underrated part of NC's cast.

Malice might be my favorite Tamara character

"you can make it dark and intense" point in case American Mcgee's Alice

The Jabberwocky was one of my absolute favorite stories as a little kid. As a result, the Jibber-Jabber joke is one of my favorite parts of this whole review. I also can't imagine The Cheshire Cat would even bring up the rebellion in conversation unless directly prompted to answer questions about it. It's more likely he would have no interest in the topic whatsoever.

A FEEEEEEAMLILY PICTURE!!!!! Bring the kiddies!

The ?????? Language at 12:39 is Johnny depp

underland huh? So this is set in Australia?

Doug's shrine to Tim from his childhood is kind of adorable

Okay, so how about making Alice a complete product of her times, then having to accept things out of the norm in order to deal with this new world, starting to think differently and accepting imagination. She would start to believe in the prophecy only to find out she really is not the "Alice" the others were talking about, but still deciding to help and in the end, winning the battle? I'm not saying it would make things better, but at least there would be an attempt to subvert the clichés...

Wait is the caterpillar Professor Snape

I freaking love Mad Hatters look in this film.

As a long time fan of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, who actually knows the difference between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts and that the monster is called the Jabberwock while the poem is called Jabberwocky, this film really hurt to see, especially since I was so excited to see it when it was first announced. :(

Next stop: Tim Burton's Dumbo! 😑

I really wish that the twist was that she WASN'T the first Alice and that she's, like, her granddaughter or something.

Personally I wouldn’t be too hard on the movie for calling it under land, because the original title of Alice in Wonderland was Alice and her adventures underground. Calling it under land is actually pretty appropriate, when you consider that.

4:55 this turned from Alice in wonderland to Alice maddnes returns really quick...

This is one of my favourite Nostalgia Critics :D

"That sounds like a made up world for a Fruit of the Loom commercial!" Me: *desperately hugs my Suzanne Collins collection* "It's okay dears, he didn't mean it."

I hate that every time Johnny Depp is in something, it becomes the "Johnny Depp Show." He gets really irritating after awhile and I'm sorry but I find him overrated. Honestly so is Helena Bonham Carter. Nostalgia Critic is right. They do play the same characters over and over and usually the characters come with huge slices of ham. When it's Tim Burton, it becomes the "Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton Show." They might as well have called it "Tim Burton's Johnny Depp's The Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter's The Red Queen with guest appearance by Mia Wasikowska as Alice." It's how I feel about the book After Alice by Gregory Maguire. There isn't enough magic, enough illogic, enough madness, enough Alice. Though the working title of the original book was Alice's Adventures Underground.

The whole "Is this the right Alice?" subplot was handled really stupidly. We see Alice talking about Wonderland when she's a little girl, so we *know* she's the same Alice who was there before. Her insisting she's not the right Alice and believing she's in a dream is just a big waste of time while we wait for her to finally remember.

Dude, but let me say this, the dresses(and armor) she wears in this movie are absolutely gorgeus, I love them so much!

That song was fucking savage.

I continue to use “Paper clip on a rice cake” to this day

"Maid cafe at the Adam's Family"?!!!!! I never knew I wanted something so much!

i dunno, there are some interesting things you can do with glue.

This movie isn't hard to figure out: Slap Victorian London, Johnny depp, dark/gritty fantasy atmosphere and backdrop, pretentious as fuck-i-ness, and gothic overtone on ANYTHING, and it will sell, no matter how bad any of the elements are. It's like attracting flies to a shit pile (a pretty apt comparison); tween girls flock to this shit in droves for some fucking reason, and it's GUARANTEED to succeed. It's like, they try to pretend like they're being profound, edgy, and angsty by bandwagoning the latest thing that overuses these tropes, but they're not fooling anybody. You're not special, your not deep or complicated, and there's plenty of people who understand you perfectly well, seeing as how scores of people think that exact same way. Stop trying so hard to stand out and just accept that you're just like everyone else.

I like how they're ashamed to be called Wonderland, but they make the Mad Hatter break dance.

25:09 idk about you but Malice hiding in her hair is just strangely adorable

"I think this calls for a good bleeding, that solves everything in this time period" Critic was ahead of the curve of medieval doctor memes

The thing that really annoyed me was the end. She goes back to the real world and acts like the lesson she learned was "make your own destiny", but she learned just the opposite in "Underland", "shut up and do what destiny tells you to do."

One more thing, (29:48) is no one going to acknowledge the 3 Massive scares on her arm?

24:01 - 24:54 That was basically me when I first saw this movie. It drove me nuts that Tim Burton, one of the few directors that I like, can't even get his own movie title right. This alone shows how much Tim has fallen from his film career. His first movies, like "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Edward Scissorhands" were good, but since he kept using the same stuff over and over for his other movies, such as gloomy atmospheres, dark tones, the same composer and the same two actors, it gets boring really fast! When this movie came along, it seemed to me that he was done. He's out of ideas. Also, this is more like a spin-off movie than a sequel or whatever Tim called it. Like an alternate dimension from the classic cartoon. If Disney is planning to remake Alice in Wonderland as live-action, don't EVEN think about screwing it up like what Tim did! One more thing: I hope that Dumbo turns out good, otherwise Tim will prove me right like he did with this movie!

i just realized this movie has the exact same plot as skyrim, a political power struggle between two sides (stormcloacks vs imperials, red queen vs white queen), a chosen hero(dragonborn, alice), that is prophetized somewhere(alduins wall,that magical calendar) that the hero is destined to defeat a great evil that plagues the land(alduin, jabberwocky), ultimately fullfilling its destiny, defeating the monster and saving the land. Or perhaps this movie's plot is so generic and uses every fantasy storyteling trope

They probably thought they were so clever using the Lewis Carol poem the jabberwock as their plot

Personally, I appreciate how this isn’t a carbon copy of the original like the lion king

26:45 - "Your destroying the Wizard of Oz! You don't need to do that! Sam Raimi already did that!" Am I the only one who'd like to see the Critic review "Oz the Great and Powerful"?

Doug summed it up perfectly when he said that you can't bring logic and revolution in Alice and Wnderland because to win all you need is to eat the stuff that makes you big and you can stomp all your enemies to death!

Malice? Sounds like something Maleficent would name her daughter.

This move is one of my guilty pleasures. I know it isn't great but I just have a fondness for it and I cannot put my finger on why.

Never knew how much I needed a British Tamara in my life

Wait, you're a celebrity? I thought that you were just a random guy, in his office, yelling at anything that moved.

Who else is waiting for them to review Burton's Through the Looking Glass?

Okay I won't lie but, I love when Depp as hatter when he does a Scottish accent. It's honestly pretty cool

25:02 Damn that's low

Well the accent switching could be seen as madness

In all truth. bith America's McGee Alice and Alice Madness Returns did a much better job at telling a Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland story... and those sold poorly.

"Next you'll be telling me that Clark Kent all this time was........ Clark Kent!" This actually made me laugh out loud.

The mad hatter changing accents shows how fucking insane he is

She is so disinterested, it's almost amazing and looks like Tim Burton was also directing just like she is acting, say this and now do this. okay, done.

I think the only logical reason for Alice's blandness and Wonderland's growing sense of order is because, while she still is a bit ahead of the times, Alice has grown up. She would, at least, have a bit of grounding in reality when dreaming up an imaginary world, maybe to the point that it invades into the real world. As a result, Wonderland has become an inconsistent mix of dreamlike madness and human reason that only grows slowly, like a king that only recently started learning how to properly rule his kingdom. Alice's curious imagination was becoming more dull with her growing sense of realism. Think about it. Even if they don't align with our own, insanity follows rules too.

I hope Tim actually watches this video and maybe one day will try contact you and talk to you what his vision was trying to aim for.

I remember watching this shortly after it came out...I also remember being thoroughly disappointed and annoyed once I realized the movie was basically just a rip-off of "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe". It didn't help either that I had been spoiled by American McGee who's adaptation was both darker AND more faithful to the source material (on top of being more inspired).

I love how malice is the American Mcgee version

And this movie is getting a sequel. Ugh...

That Bad Screenwriter 101 tip is a really good one (at 7:00), I have a habit of hunting down good narrative advice & I never heard that one. Mind you I always hated learning from screenwriters, I found they spend more time talking about how awesome their jobs are & little about doing their jobs.

I can honestly see someone building an actual Tim Burton theme park actually. Not just for fall but for all year round.

"Joan of...Meh."

5:20 Alice in Wonderland: Genocide Run

I love those throwbacks to "American McGees Alice" video game!

For my money, the Disney production of "Alice in Wonderland" that aired on CBS in December 1985 is still the reigning champion of weirdness. One of the most distant memories I have is watching Alice chase the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole while thunder and lightning crash through the darkness. I would have been three and half years old when it aired. I also remember that Mr. Miyagi was a horse for some reason. Might be worth a look for the nostalgia critic.