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Alice Through the Looking Glass (May 27)

Who asked for this? Oh, I know. The audience equivalent to $1 billion box office did. Sigh. Well, in a world of four increasingly-terrible Transformers films, it totally makes sense we’d have a nascent series of increasingly-terrible Alice in Wonderland films. On a serious note, the appeal of the first was Tim Burton, Depp in his prime and freshness. This time, they have no Burton (replaced with The Muppets‘ James Bobin), Depp past his prime and instead of freshness, flat-out antipathy. So it will probably make another billion.

Looking on the bright side, we probably wouldn’t have gotten Jon Favreau’s excellent The Jungle Book adaptation if this hadn’t hit so big, so . . . (grits teeth) thanks.