'Alice Through the Looking Glass' 2016 Trailer: Mia Wasikowska Returns to Save Johnny Depp

Mar 31, 2016 11:50 AM EDT

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Six years after Tim Burton introduced Mia Wasikowska as Lewis Carroll's Victorian heroine in Alice in Wonderland, the actress is returning to the role (and to the land ruled by the Red Queen) in this year's sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass. In the latest 2016 trailer for the Burton-produced film, Alice must go back to save Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter -- to the beat of P!nk!

Earlier this week, Disney released its second official trailer for the sequel, and the world Burton created looks just as dazzling as it did in 2010.

The clip begins with Alice in a psychiatric ward having just been diagnosed of female hysteria by a doctor Sherlock fans will recognize: Andrew Scott, the face of Jim Moriarty in the BBC show and a villain in last year's James Bond movie Spectre.

In any case, Alice flees the ward and right back into Wonderland via, of course, a looking glass. As Alan Rickman's Blue Caterpillar (now a butterfly) tells her she's been missing too long, we find the great problem the heroine must face: her friend the Mad Hatter is sick and literally racing time -- particularly its incarnation, Sacha Baron Cohen.

The trailer features a few other big moments, such as Humpty Dumpty inevitably meeting his fate after Alice bumps into him.

The larger part of the original cast will be returning for the sequel, from Wasikowska and Depp to Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and voice work by Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. Besides Cohen and Scott, new additions to the cast also include Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter's father.

The story picks up years after Alice's adventures in the previous film: these days, she's followed the path her father set out and has been working at sea. Once she's returned to London, she reenters Wonderland through a mirror and sees the Mad Hatter has lost his Muchness, so she must go back in time to recover it.

Alice Through the Looking Glass will be in theaters on May 27.

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