I think it’s fair to say the only reason we’re even getting a sequel to Tim Burton’s tepid Alice in Wonderland is due to the timely nature of it’s release: a post-Avatar environment where 3D was the hottest commodity that had not yet overstayed its welcome. Earning a 300+ million domestic run that would eventually result in a whopping billion dollars at the box office worldwide, and keeping Hot Topic in business, this movie was certainly a product of the era. But the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, is being released after a less-timely six year hiatus without Tim Burton returning to the director’s chair (which honestly thank god, Big Eyes was his best film in a while so let’s keep it that way).

While I understand the scorn the first film receives, I only saw it once in theaters and was actually left most unimpressed with Wasikowska, her Alice being woefully banal and unemotional about everything that was happening to her. It really took until last year’s Only Lovers Left Alive for me to realize she can actually do some great character work. Otherwise the film left me greatly underwhelmed and was just another fodder for Tim Burton’s Autopilot series: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, (arguably) Sweeney Todd, and stupid fucking stupid Dark Shadows.

This time the film will be directed by James Bobbin, who has directed the last two Muppet features, the former of which I dearly loved. Additionally all of the stars are returning so you’ll get more adventures with Mia Wasikowska’s Alice, Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter who unsurprisingly is a huge focal point of the proposed plot, Helena Bonham Carter’s bobble-headed Red Queen, Anne Hathaway’s White Queen, Alan Rickman’s Caterpillar, and Stephen Fry’s Cheshire Cat. The newest addition, which actually made me surprised this wasn’t directed by Burton, is Sacha Baron Cohen as “Time”.

The plot concerns Alice some time after the first movie where Wonderland has once again gone kaputz revolving around the Mad Hatter doing something and getting kidnapped by Time or something. Alice is once again whisked into Wonderland this time via mirrors and is stuck in a CGI-overloaded nightmare where somehow her kabuki circus freak outfit is still the most ridiculous thing on screen. Alan Rickman spins a yarn involving a lot of time puns and how we’re all running out of time because we’ve sat on this franchise too long but maybe not as long as Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, so we’ll likely make more of a profit than that but we’re definitely not making over a billion dollars again.

So here’s your two-minute reminder that Crimson Peak is still in theaters and you should be watching that instead:

Through the Looking Glass comes out May 2016, where you will no doubt be stuck watching it because you got there too late and Captain America: Civil War is sold out.