![]() ![]() There’s some confusion over whether the mushroom which Alice eats to change size in Alice in Wonderland inspired Shigeru Miyamoto to come up with the similarly size-changing mushroom power-ups in the original Super Mario Brothers. I mean, at least with a video game speedrun on YouTube, you get to bear witness to some actual skill. It’s cliche to compare weightless, CG-heavy cinematic action to watching someone play a video game, but I don’t think that’s fair. Alice even has to hotfoot it over a winding shaft, the same as Mario must do in that level. ![]() ![]() I was primed for this by the fact that the Chronosphere is housed in a clockwork castle which looks ripped off wholesale from the Tick Tock Clock course from Super Mario 64. “Oh, so it shrinks and enlarges as is convenient. Alice ( Mia Wasikowska) drops the little ball and it suddenly grows so that she can step inside and use it to travel through time. The central plot mechanism of Alice Through the Looking Glass is an actual mechanism, a doodad of whirling steampunk metal and glowy CGI called the Chronosphere.
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