This inevitable follow-up to the inexplicable billion-dollar box-office bonanza of Tim Burton's film does little to improve on the original. After an arrestingly promising sea-bound opening, the flimsy time-hopping narrative has little traction, character development is minimal and nothing feels particularly involving for participants or viewers. There are some truly wonderful visuals - Time's gigantic Gothic clockwork palace is a staggering 3D creation - but they only serve to highlight the fact that Lewis Carroll's achievement was with words and wordplay, not $170 million of bloated CGI and an undercooked script.
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