Thus far every new trailer and TV spot has made me more excited to see this Woolverton-scripted and James Bobin-directed sequel with just under two months to go. But for the moment, we're talking about marketing. Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. The sequel to the 2010 live action blockbuster Alice In Wonderland is proving to be just as trippy and fascinating as its predecessor, if the Alice Through The Looking Glass trailer song is to judge.
The difference in impact was night-and-day. Disney's Alice Through the Looking Glass is in theaters (Memorial Day weekend) which, yes, seems like a ways off.But after teasing you with a few short clips earlier this week, the. In Disneys Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carrolls beloved stories. Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) PG Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery. Heck, I once took in a double feature and saw two different versions of the Crow: City of Angels trailer, one with heavy metal and the other with Gregorian chanting. Now we all know that trailer music can be misleading. Because it's a jolting and percussion-heavy cover of an already terrific (and obviously context-appropriate) song that offers an urgency and excitement to the footage.
Anyway, that just caught my attention right off the bat.Īs for the rest of this trailer, which dropped an hour ago, I have no idea how much Walt Disney paid P!nk to record a cover of "White Rabbit." But I hope it was almost as much money as they paid Frederick Lloyd to cover "The Force Theme" for the third Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. Walt Disney has certainly not shied away from dealing with politics and/or social mores in its recent blockbusters ( Maleficent was I Spit On Your Grave for kids), and they will certainly have a captive audience for this blockbuster sequel to the $1 billion-grossing original 2010 smash. In Disney's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll's beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.