<P> The film was released across 43 countries (72% of its total market place) the same weekend as the US, and was estimated to gross $80--100 million in its opening weekend . It faced competition from Warcraft and X-Men: Apocalypse . It ended up grossing $62.7 million, which is well below the projections of which $4.1 million came from IMAX shows . It had an opening weekend gross in Mexico ($4.5 million), Brazil ($4.1 million), and Russia ($3.9 million). In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it had an unsuccessful opening by grossing just £ 2.23 million ($3.1 million) during its opening weekend, a mere 21% of the first film's £ 10.56 million ($15.2 million) opening from 603 theaters . It debuted in second place behind X-Men: Apocalypse which was on its second weekend of play . In China, it had an opening day of an estimated $7.3 million and went on to score the second biggest Disney live - action (non-Marvel or Lucasfilm) opening ever with $26.6 million, behind only The Jungle Book . However, this was down from its $35--45 million projections . It debuted at the No. 1 spot among newly released film in Japan with $5.2 million and $4.1 million on Saturday and Sunday . By comparison, the first film opened with $14 million on its way to a $133.6 million a total . </P> <P> On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 30% based on 227 reviews, and an average rating of 4.6 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "Alice Through the Looking Glass is just as visually impressive as its predecessor, but that isn't enough to cover for an underwhelming story that fails to live up to its classic characters ." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 34 out of 100 based on 42 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A --" on an A+ to F scale, the same grade earned by its predecessor . </P> <P> Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote in his review, "What does all this have to do with Lewis Carroll? Hardly anything" and that overall, "It's just an excuse on which to hang two trite overbearing fables and one amusing one". Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the movie 1.5 out of 4 stars and called the film, "gaudy, loud, complacent, and vulgar ." Stephen Whitty of New York Daily News called the film "hugely expensive and extravagantly stupid" and that, overall, the movie "is just one more silly Hollywood mashup, an innocent fantasy morphed into a noisy would - be blockbuster". </P> <P> Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com was deeply critical of Through the Looking Glass, describing it as "the most offensive kind of film...one that spends an enormous amount of money yet seems to have nothing on its mind but money . You give it, they take it . And you get nothing in return but assurances that you're seeing magic and wonder . The movie keeps repeating it in your ear, and flashing it onscreen in big block letters: MAGIC AND WONDER . MAGIC AND WONDER . But there is no magic, no wonder, just junk rehashed from a movie that was itself a rehash of Lewis Carroll, tricked out with physically unpersuasive characters and landscapes and' action scenes', with blockbuster' journey movie' tropes affixed to every set - piece as blatantly as Post-It Notes ." </P>

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