Franchise newcomer Sacha Baron Cohen also factors in as a madcap half-clockwork, half-human demigod who protects the device used by Alice to travel in time. Woolverton uses this development as an opportunity to offer fans something they probably never desired: an origin story, chronicling what led the Red Queen (returning scene stealer Helena Bonham Carter) to become so wicked (hint: it has to do with the Mad Hatter). Together with some help from the White Queen ( Anne Hathaway, still affecting the stilted mannerisms that did her no favours in the first film), Alice journeys back in time to solve the riddle of what happened to the Mad Hatter’s clan and, in turn, save her friend.
Once in the gloriously nonsensical world, the story abandons its feminist leanings to focus solely on Alice’s mission to save the Mad Hatter ( Johnny Depp), who has fallen ill (his orange hair morphs to white), haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his family. A plot contrivance forces Alice to return to Underland, this time via a giant mirror.
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