ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Winsome, joyful fantasy adventure for older children and adults.
Should You Watch It?
Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass is a joyful, winsome fantasy adventure with amazing visuals and a compelling, well-structured story. Its central goal is deeply positive: helping a family reunite and find forgiveness. The movie also celebrates helping others, accomplishing great things and dreaming big.
The film’s scary characters and situations may trouble younger children, and some costumes are slightly over the top. Those concerns call for parental discernment, but they do not outweigh the movie’s uplifting spirit and strong moral worldview.
If your children are older and can handle fantasy peril, Alice Through the Looking Glass is worth seeing together.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESAlice returns to Wonderland after a difficult situation at home. There, she learns that the Mad Hatter is deeply depressed because he believes his family is still alive but cannot find them.
With help from familiar Wonderland friends, Alice sets out on a perilous journey to help him. Her quest involves a device that can take her back in time—and a race against Time itself.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is a joyful, well-made family fantasy that succeeds on both story and spectacle. The visuals are amazing, and the movie’s CGI looks especially strong. Its story is compelling and well structured, giving Alice’s journey clear purpose and momentum.
The film also has an uplifting emotional center. The effort to reunite a family and bring forgiveness gives the fantasy adventure a strong moral foundation. Some costuming seems a bit over the top, but it suits the movie’s fantastic fairy-tale style.
The Worldview
The film presents a strong moral, redemptive worldview. It stresses family, forgiveness and helping others, while also encouraging people to accomplish great things and dream big. Its central longing is to restore a broken family, and its moral emphasis is directed toward reconciliation rather than selfishness or revenge.
The movie includes a church-like structure and a prayer, although the prayer is addressed to a person rather than to God. Time is personified in a way that gives life and death, adding a fantastical spiritual element for families to consider.
The film’s emphasis on forgiveness aligns with Scripture’s call to treat others with mercy: “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Strong moral worldview with some redemptive content and values, including a church-like structure, a prayer is said but to a person not to God, there are themes of forgiveness, family and helping others are stressed, and there’s a personification of Time that gives life and death; no foul language; some action violence featuring slightly scary characters includes falling down, there’s a storm with large waves, threats, and a dragon blows fire; no sex; no nudity; no alcohol; no smoking or drugs; and, some lying and greed by the villain.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Alice risks much to help the Mad Hatter and his family. When have you helped someone even though it cost you something?
Philippians 2:3–4 · Galatians 6:2Forgiveness and family restoration are central to the story. What makes forgiveness difficult, and why does God call us to forgive?
Ephesians 4:32 · Colossians 3:13Alice faces obstacles while trying to accomplish something important. What does it mean to dream big while still seeking wisdom?
Proverbs 3:5–6 · James 1:5The story treats time as something precious and limited. How should remembering that our time is limited shape the way we live?
Psalm 90:12 · Ephesians 5:15–16The Final Word
Alice Through the Looking Glass offers older viewers a winsome, visually amazing adventure with a strong message about family, forgiveness and helping others. Younger children may be frightened by some of its fantasy elements, so know your family’s sensitivities. For older children and adults, this is WORTH THE TRIP — OLDER CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
