Alice Through the Looking Glass
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: medium
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The Verdict
A Disney fantasy sequel that mostly sticks to its own established characters and Victorian-fantasy setting. There's a mild girlboss thread — Alice as a defiant ship's captain bucking male expectations — but no LGBTQ+ content, identity swaps, or heavy-handed lecturing. The departures from Carroll are creative liberties, not agenda-driven, making this a largely clean entry on the woke scale.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
10Characters drawn from Carroll and the prior film; no race or gender swaps of established figures.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
35Alice is a capable, independent ship's captain and adventurer, and the film leans into her defying men who underestimate her, but it doesn't frame men as the problem.
- Alice captains her father's ship and resists men who try to take it from her
- Her competence is contrasted with dismissive male authority figures
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+, trans, or non-binary content present.
DEI Casting
10Casting fits the Victorian/fantasy setting; no diversity overriding lore as a checkbox.
Preachiness
25A light feminist undertone about a woman charting her own course, but it's woven into the adventure rather than sermonized.
- Alice rejecting societal expectations of marriage and a conventional role
- Themes of women's independence in a man's world
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
15Some male characters underestimate Alice, but there's no broad framing of masculinity or the West as toxic.
Source Betrayal
20A wholly invented sequel story far from Carroll's books, but the deviations are creative/commercial, not identity-driven.
- Time-travel plot and the Hatter's backstory are original inventions not in the source
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Cast & Crew
Mia Wasikowska
Alice Kingsleigh
Johnny Depp
Tarrant Hightopp / Mad Hatter
Anne Hathaway
Mirana / White Queen
Helena Bonham Carter
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Time
Matt Lucas
Tweedledee / Tweedledum
Alan Rickman
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Stephen Fry
Cheshire Cat (voice)
Michael Sheen
Nivens McTwisp / White Rabbit (voice)
Timothy Spall
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
James Bobin (Director) · John G. Scotti (Executive Producer)
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