Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

This feels like it happened an aeon ago, but I vividly remember the morning of one particular birthday. I woke up to a beautiful, bright and sunny day. Next to my pillow, gift-wrapped in a lovely pink was a little package. The size and shape told me it was a book. I tore into the gift and Lewis Carrol's, 'Alice in Wonderland' was all mine. So years later when this book was made into a movie, watch I did and now when the sequel came out I told myself that this one I could not miss.

It's Memorial Day and we thought what better way to end the long weekend, so off to fantasy world it was. After six years, it was good to watch and remember Alice.

Alice's father is no more and the family is in deep financial stress. Alice risks losing her father's ship, on board of which she has travelled the high seas having enjoyed many adventures. Alice returns from a trip to China and gate-crashes Hamish Ascot's, her ex-fiancé's, party. He has taken over her father's company and she hopes to wrestle back their family home in exchange for the ship. There Alice follows a butterfly, Absolem, through a mirror  and returns to Underland. Alice's help is sought after by the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and other well wishers to save The Mad Hatter's (Johnny Depp) life. Hatter believes his family was killed during the attack of Jabberwocky Day. So Alice has to fight Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) and steal the Chronosphere to time-travel to the past, in the hopes of finding Hatter's missing family and in turn saving his life.

It's goodbye to Alice, Hatter, White Queen and Queen of Hearts.

So follow Alice through the looking glass and wait for the fantastical adventure to begin .. and remember, hold  on tight...

Word for the day :-
anathema - something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
and also
a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.