Review: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass,’ a curious sequel

“Alice Through the Looking Glass ,” like its predecessor, owes very little to Lewis Carroll.
Textual adherence is somewhat beside the point when serving as a sequel to something that also cherry picked. But, lest you think that a six-year gap and the absence of Tim Burton in the director’s chair might have allowed for a return to the gleeful absurdity of Carroll, it doesn’t.
Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (“Beauty and the Beast”) has again disposed of the sourc