Fairy Tale Characters like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and others traveled to our world (read: Los Angeles) through a magic mirror.
Said mirror was broken.
Alice- who I guess came over some time after that- began collecting other Characters that came through like the Big Bad Wolf, The Queen of Hearts and The Mad Hatter- all of whom, save for Hatter- are written out with one off-hand line.
At some point *after that* she caught and froze Snow White, who she has now freed...
The group- minus Rapunzel and Cinderella for no given reason- must reunite to save Charming, since whoever he marries will 'rule over the land.'
The evil Queen Magda of Atlantis has showed up in Los Angeles in pursuit of Prince Charming and conquers Los Angeles...entirely off-screen.
She is met by Rumpelstiltskin, who is the same one from Sinister Squad (with a different Actor!), but not the same one from Avengers Grimm.
Pointlessly-confusing- yes!
Since magic is vague and this Plot is dumb, that means they would rule over ALL land on Earth.
Rumpelstiltskin works with Magda as part of his evil plan to...pretend to be friendly to Charming and push him towards doing what she- or just he- wants.
These Scenes are silly and dumb, so here's 6 more!
Will the Time Travel stuff- since they guess Endgame- make sense and/or be interesting?
Can they- alongside Alice, who can now just be Ant-Man, I guess- stop Magda and her Army of vague numbers of men?
Can her Throne Room look any cheaper?
Will they ever avenge this random Detectorist at the Beach?
To find, stream the Film. It's on Tubi, so free with ads. Enjoy?
Where do I begin with this thing?!? It is a Sequel to two disparate Films and does neither much service. For Avengers Grimm, it excises two Main Characters, casts a new guy with the same name as that Film's Villain, rewrites a bunch of the backstory and just doesn't even fit in with anything that well. Snow White was just captured by Alice off-screen at some point between Films? She always loved Charming, even though he wasn't mentioned. Magda was some evil force to be dealt with, even though Rumpelstiltskin supposedly conquered the Fairy Kingdom in that Film? They also don't make it clear why so much is in Los Angeles either. They say that the mirror being broken messed with reality, but how much? As far as Squad goes, we only get Alice and The Mad Hatter out of it, since they just say 'the rest are out of Town.' No, really. Incidentally, we also lose the happy (?) ending with Rumpelstiltskin (the 2nd one) ruling over Hell with the Queen of Hearts. Since they need him back, he just says that he 'got bored.' Lame. The big 'hook' here is supposed to be a connection of the 2 Films for something bigger. So, to be clear, an Avengers knock-off is going to connect to a Suicide Squad knock-off- excitement? If that's the goal, the payoff is kind of weak. Alice gets stuff to do in the 3rd Act, but that's it. Yes, Hatter is around and somehow worse than in the last one. The official Art makes it seem like Alice is the 4th Member of the Team (ignoring that there were 5 last time and 2 are missing). Not so much. Is the Time Travel stuff interesting? No. We are *told* that there are consequences, but there's no fun payoff to the Time Travel like in Endgame. Oh no, the 7 Dwarfs- who weren't in the last Film- are apparently dead? I'm...sad? This should be fun. It is not. I want to be all 'Surprise- this Asylum Film is actually good.' It just happens to be that the last 2 cases just weren't. In any case, at least nobody made *a different* DVD Cover that makes even less sense than the official one...
A Film that should be so crazy that it is fun. Sadly, it is both too vague and too dense to follow & honestly not worth the effort at times.
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