It's a bit like watching a program for toddlers it's full of colors and sounds and commotion, but it serves merely as a distraction, instead of as thought-provoking entertainment. Motives and emotions become pointless and hollow. But when everything is nonsensical, the plot and the characters generate little purpose or drive. More specifically, it's not as much an issue of realism as it is reasoning (or explanation), which again might sound contrary to the obviously absurdist concepts that populate Carroll's visions. It seems contradictory to criticize a picture based on the works of Lewis Carroll for being too unrealistic. No real peril - and therefore no sense of genuine adventure - can exist in a world where nothing is clearly defined. Every predicament is hopelessly insincere, since solutions can be invented on a whim. For Alice, anything is possible for the audience, this belief in spontaneous, inexplicable happenings becomes extremely annoying, very quickly. Impossible for anyone unfamiliar with the realm of Underland, that is. The film starts off like a "Pirates of the Caribbean" yarn, sporting a young skipper engaging in high seas battles, spouting orders to disapproving minions, and succeeding in impossible feats of seafaring luck. Disregarding the clock-keeper's warnings, Alice steals the device, unwittingly setting into motion a chain of events that will threaten the very existence of her beloved alternate world and all of its inhabitants. Determined to help, Alice discovers she must travel back into the past using Time's (Sacha Baron Cohen) "chronosphere" to undo the events that would lead to the demise of Hightopp's troupe. Once there, she discovers that her good friend Hatter Tarrant Hightopp (Johnny Depp) has grown deathly ill at the thought of never seeing his family again. Facing the end of her career as a sea captain, Alice escapes her distressing surroundings by jumping through a magical mirror that transports her to Underland. After spending a year sailing around the world, Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) returns home to London to find that her mother (Lindsay Duncan) has sold off their shares in the trading company that had been backing her journeys - to scorned suitor Hamish (Leo Bill).
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