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The "Palace of Time" is equally impressive. Filled with billions of ticking clocks, hourglasses, and pendulums, the set (built at Shepperton Studios) contained over 8,000 actual working clock faces. The visual density is overwhelming in the best way, rewarding repeat viewings.

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) is not a perfect film. It is too long (113 minutes). The plot occasionally collapses under the weight of its own time-travel logic. And some will find Sacha Baron Cohen’s campy performance jarring next to Wasikowska’s sincere intensity. alice through the looking glass 2016

The screenplay was penned by Linda Woolverton, who also wrote the 2010 installment. Woolverton is a veteran of Disney animation (having written Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King ), and her scripts are known for giving female protagonists agency. In the 2016 film, she doubled down on making Alice Kingsleigh a modern, empowered woman in a Victorian setting, moving her from a girl unsure of her identity to a seasoned sea captain. The "Palace of Time" is equally impressive

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