Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Actor Review
Nothing could be sweeter...
Growing upwardly, my favorite book was, hands, "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory". Roald Dahl's magical tale of a young boy's adventure in the strange factory was spell-binding. Though I never had a problem with the original "Willy Wonka" move with Gene Wilder (despite how unfaithful it was, it was all the same a beautiful and heart-warming pic), I was doing back-flips when I heard Tim Burton, quite mayhap my best favorite director, would helm a new version of the motion picture.
First and foremost, Johnny Depp is perfect as Willy Wonka. What people don't really pick upward from the first movie is that Wonka was intended to exist, well, crazy. He was eccentric and freaky, the way he allowed the rotten children to get what they deserved and protected his factory like information technology was his child. Gene Wilder portrayed Wonka more than like a fatherly-figure, and actually was just too dainty. Depp pulls out all of the stops every bit a new Willy Wonka, though there are times that any audience member will get just a fleck freaked out.
What I loved nearly virtually the picture was how true-blue information technology was to the book. Everything that was mentioned, from the chocolate palace to the hair toffee, was taken direct from the book. I was incredibly impressed.
This is definitely a movie for anybody, especially those of us who hold the original tale in our hearts. Wonka chocolate bars for all!
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Wonkatrastrophe
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Tim Burton kept saying he wanted to brand a version much more faithful to the source material, which leaves me wondering why he didn't.
There'due south the atrocious (and unnecessary, and counterproductive) back story showing Wonka's babyhood, which is nothing more than an excuse for Burton to bring in one of his horror movie heroes from childhood (Christopher Lee) while completely killing any sense of mystery Wonka might otherwise possess.
I like Johnny Depp, just his Wonka had zilch warmth...and was just plain creepy and random - one minute he's snippy and/or oblivious to the kids, the next he's paternal, offering Charlie some nourishing hot chocolate because he "looks like he could utilise it" (and because it's a line from the book).
Wonka in the book is a spritely little gent...neither Factor Wilder nor Johnny Depp are actually much like him (much less then Depp), merely Wilder's estimation ever has that twinkle in his eye - y'all know he's a little eccentric but he's always in control. The kids in this version are all pretty good. But Wonka himself? Yikes. Give me Gene Wilder's version over creepy Johnny Depp'southward Michael Jackson take whatever day.
The Oompa-Loompa musical numbers blew. The first ane, in the chocolate room, was okay. Merely overall, I had a hard time understanding nearly of the lyrics. It was all but raucous noise. Come on, Elfman, you can do ameliorate than that.
Wonka telling Charlie he tin't bring his family to live with him in the factory was insane. First of all, it makes Wonka wait even more like a freaky pedophile; second of all - how on world is that faithful to the book?!
This is the second time in contempo retentiveness I've heard of a producer/director wooing the widow of a dear children'southward book author and then she deciding that her dead husband would love this new big-screen version of his source fabric.
Somewhere, Dr. Seuss is consoling Roald Dahl.
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Burton Studied the Volume'due south Original Illustrations
If Tim Burton's out there I just want to thank him for bringing the spirit of the book'southward original illustrations to the screen. He even matched the facial expressions to the drawings, particularly in the example of Charlie's family unit. Charlie himself looks like one of the drawings, and the Bucket house is so much similar the illustrations it caused me to realize that Burton is as visual as any motion picture director tin be. (Contempo editions characteristic the work of a different illustrator. I'm talking about the illustrations from the 1960s. The difference between the older illustrations and the newer ones is the older ones feature a lot of cross-hatching. I imagine the older illustrations are nevertheless available, especially in a hardcover, but you'll demand to search the cyberspace.) I don't know how he did it, but he got the facial expressions of Charlie'south family and of Mike Teavea's male parent down perfectly. He too absorbed Dahl's sense of humor. The opening fifteen minutes or so, in which the winners of the gilt tickets are appear 1 by one, actually get Roald Dahl's sense of the ridiculous. I recollect Burton's addition of Wonka'due south babyhood story fits well, although I'll concur that the manner this is resolved is non completely in Dahl's spirit. Fifty-fifty in the resolution, however, Burton maintains sly humor. It is well-acted by everybody. I'd like to say that Julia Wintertime, who plays Veruca Common salt, has turned in a truly well-observed comedic performance. Depp converts the novel's jaunty, precise Wonka into a quirky one, but it works well, because, as in the novel, Wonka'southward endearing traits contrast with the fact that he's a tyrant. Roald Dahl gets a rap for his cynicism, and this pic softens his message a fleck. Dahl is a bit like Orwell. Both of them point out that human being, given power, will exploit his young man human beings. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY the motion picture is non quite equally nighttime as the volume. Just information technology comes very, very shut.
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Every bit Adept As I Hoped Information technology Would Be
I was pleased to have this "Willy Wonka" re-make meet my expectations. Those expectations were high, at to the lowest degree in the visuals department. I expected a wild, colorful ride with brilliant hues and good special effects...and I was not disappointed.
It was inventively fun with those bully visuals and some other wonderful kid playing "Charlie." I doubted they could ever come up up with some other child as appealing and nice/wholesome as one in "Willy Wonka" just they found one in Freddie Highmore. He filled the bill magnificently, equally did the "deviling" kids.
A dissimilar feature of this version, equally opposed to the 1970 original, was that here the Oompa-Loompas were all played by just one person, a very small Indian human being named Deep Roy. One of the interesting "features" on the DVD details how difficult that was to practise and how much time Roy had to put in to do all the things he did.
Johnny Depp, meanwhile, "did" what he e'er does - practise a skillful job of playing a weird person. I get the feeling he relates easily to strange characters. He seems to play enough of them. This was the only part of the movie, frankly, where I preferred the 1970 version: the office of Willy Wonka. Yes, Depp was interesting as always but a little too weird, likewise Michael Jackson-like, for my tastes. I'll take Factor Wilder's take on the character.
Otherwise, this re-brand has it all over the original, simply because it has 35 years of engineering science and computer work that the original wasn't able to have. Information technology made this re-make a real "hoot" to lookout. Since amusement is what the concern is called, and this movie is extremely entertaining, and so I have no complaints. A fun two hours!
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Keen, simply not good, either...
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I know I'm in the minority here, but I wasn't jumping up and down about this film. I loved the book as a kid and loved the original motion-picture show with Factor Wilder for its own original contributions...peradventure I'yard biased. Still, I accept always admired Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's work, and had been looking frontwards to this new estimation of Roald Dahl'south book.
This moving picture was, indeed, more true to the book than the 1971 version...the squirrel room, the jungle scene, the children leaving the manufacturing plant, perhaps a piffling "wiser for the wear." All the same, the graphic symbol development of the 1971 version was MUCH ameliorate than here...you were actually given an opportunity to similar or dislike each grapheme, including Willy Wonka. I did recall that Johnny Depp's portrayal of Wonka was more than true to the book than Gene Wilder'southward...Willy Wonka is supposed to be quite childish and eccentric. Nevertheless, I thought that this moving-picture show's preoccupation with being true to the book caused it to overlook what is more of import, which is to establish the intentions of each grapheme. At to the lowest degree in the 1971 version, information technology's pretty clear what each character's intentions are...even if establishing some of these intentions requires a conspiracy involving "Slugworth." And though I haven't read the book in a very long time, I do Non remember whatsoever details being given as to Willy Wonka's childhood...I thought these were unnecessary, distracting, and a waste product of time. This energy could take been amend spent on the children's' graphic symbol development, in my opinion. This is, after all, supposed to be a story for and almost children.
The oompa loompas. It'due south true that they are physically portrayed accurately here more so than in the 1971 version, i.eastward. very small people and not midgets with orange skin and green hair. Still, though the songs they sing here are true to the book, they are less charismatic than those of the 1971 film and sometimes seem over the meridian. Too, I didn't similar that they were all clones of each other...I call up that was a poor choice.
Finally, I was appalled with the ending...this ties in with my previous comments re: Willy Wonka's childhood. It changed the whole idea behind the story itself, which is supposed to be (from my perspective) that people can overcome their hardships to accept a happy and prosperous catastrophe, as long equally they're honest, selfless, and generous. This movie changes the whole theme of the story to one that emphasizes the importance of family unit over any kind of textile wealth or prosperity. Both are perfectly good and legitimate themes, but my reading of the book left me with an impression that Roald Dahl was more than concerned with the quondam theme than the latter. Appropriately then, this picture did non practice the book justice in the virtually important and key style, whereas the 1971 pic was able to exercise and so despite its shortcomings.
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Legendary to whatsoever child from the 2000's
Equally of it hits you with amazing babyhood memories. Watching it as an adult, you lot get to notice many muddied puns between Willy Wonka and Violet'southward mother almost explicit lol. The songs by the oompa lumpas are still pretty dull and useless though
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Tim Burton's awesome.
A severely underrated movie that stays faithful to the book, while calculation enough to justify its beingness and features an amusingly eccentric performance from Johnny Depp
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Begins wonderfully...just the fun dissipates inside the manufacturing plant, and Depp is a disappointment
Tim Burton's version of Roald Dahl'due south archetype children's book, previously filmed with music in 1971 as "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", opens with bang-up promise, featuring incredible art management that mixes High german Expressionism with Grimm-like fantasy (aided by Danny Elfman's atmospheric, if familiar, score). Charlie Bucket, a kid of little privilege who lives with his family in a lopsided house, longs to exist i of five lucky worldwide recipients of a prized Golden Ticket, an invitation to tour the candy factory of reclusive genius Willy Wonka. Burton mounts the excitement of the treasure hunt, with the tickets subconscious in Wonka candy bars, with gleeful ataraxy, and the satire--though a bit heavy-handed--is both trendy and amusing. Once the activity moves to Wonka's foreboding manufactory however, and Johnny Depp takes center stage as Wonka (a would-be misplaced child of the sixties), interest wanes. All the kids and parents are well-cast, peculiarly Freddie Highmore every bit Charlie and David Kelly equally his Granddaddy Joe, but the reckoner-generated effects turn Wonka'southward landscape into an impenetrable den of ugly colors and outsized objects (like moving wallpaper). Burton, who expressed nothing but contempt for the previous version, does borrow pieces from that picture, improving upon some areas (such as Veruca Salt's exit, with squirrels instead of geese) just falling far curt on others (when Gramps Joe and Charlie secretly unwrap a Wonka bar at night and come upward empty, in that location's no camaraderie between the two, and no embracing of the familial theme). The musical Oompa-Loompas are a dreadful come-down from the predecessor, with songs sung in dissimilar musical styles and Burton staging each like a music video (these sequences, besides, steal from the kickoff film, nevertheless the Oompa'southward message ultimately gets lost in the silliness). Depp performs with too much grotesque extravaganza; sure, his Wonka is out of stride with the world, but his sarcasm is too modern, and is geared to get like shooting fish in a barrel laughs from the audience. Screenwriter John August is more than out of touch than Wonka; using nasty put-downs to separate Charlie from the other kids is a facile and lazy way of telegraphing us that these children are bad examples, and the flashbacks to Wonka'south childhood (as well equally a visual history of the Oompa-Loompas) does admittedly nothing just chew up time on the clock. We first see Wonka himself in a flashback based on a story from Granddad Joe (didn't Charlie know that his granddaddy once worked for Willy Wonka?), making Wonka's official entrance several minutes later a non-event. This story is difficult to film without getting gummy or preachy, but Burton was on the right rails with his opening sequences. Too bad the 2nd-half is so misbegotten (and not fifty-fifty ambitious, really) that all the mystery drains away like melted chocolate. *1/2 from ****
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Garbage. Absolute, pure, filthy garbage.
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I honestly cannot see why everyone would like this rubbish over the original. Whereas the 1971 version sparkled with innocence, charm and magic, this monstrosity will leave y'all feeling violently ill and internally disturbed by the time the closing credits roll.
Let me begin by proverb I don't personally enjoy Tim Burton's manner, and didn't like the dark influence he brought to this pic. Depp'south Wonka is perhaps the creepiest character I've always watched in a movie. Different Gene Wilder'due south eccentric nonetheless loving Wonka, he openly expresses his disgust and hatred towards the children. Ane need only watch the scene in which a shrunken Mike Teavee is nearly stabbed by a vicious-faced Oompa-Loompa, or the i in which Veruca Salt is dragged screaming into the garbage chute while Wonka pretends he cannot notice the right key to permit Mr. Salt into save his daughter, to understand Wonka's cruelty. In the original, Wonka seemed merely disappointed and bored during the children'south accidents, and he e'er kept his head; he knew no harm would befall the young troublemakers. Here, nosotros see Wonka laughing, dancing and auspicious every bit the Oompa Loompas sing about children being turned into chocolate and eaten.The scenes of the four naughty children'due south punishments were incredibly agonizing, and the jokes about cannibalism just fabricated me cringe at the stupidity of information technology all.
Charlie Saucepan, who should take been the main character, was a disappointment. Throughout virtually of the film he seems rather expressionless and bored, unlike the genuine and honest boy played by Peter Ostrum in the original movie. The 1971 Charlie had a dream; he wanted more than than his poverty-stricken life, he strived to help his family out of tight situations, he wasn't perfect, only he was a believable grapheme, and that'southward what made him so lovable; he was just like usa all. This Charlie doesn't seem to care near anything; he seems perfectly happy with his life and hardly seems to care almost getting a golden ticket. The other children are equally disappointing; Violet Beauregarde manages to pull off her characters adequately well, but nonetheless she had little to work with.
The songs in the original were hopeful and inspiring, such every bit the charming 'Processed Human being,' and 'I've Got a Golden Ticket,' the heartwarming 'Cheer up Charlie,' and the magnificent 'Pure Imagination.' In this new version,the but songs we get are a cheesy welcome song in which childlike puppets explode and cook into ghoulish wraith like figures, plus the nauseating Oompa-Loompa filth. The emotional 1971 ending with Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Goe in the lift has been replaced with Wonka refusing the other Buckets to enter the factory, becoming a hobo, and eventually reuniting with his abusive dentist father (???)
In a short review with a maximum of 1, 000 words I but tin can't practise justice to the badness of this movie, so I'll get out information technology at this: the old movie has a positive and uplifting message that volition bring tears to even the coldest middle. This one crushes the viewer down into the dust while screaming its bulletin into their face. And so, unless you enjoy stupid jokes, children in despair and nauseating songs, don't waste any money on this soulless, emotionally disturbing piece of filth.
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The Fabulous Return of Willy Wonka
Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" at the Wilkinson American Moving-picture show Day. And, oh boy, I was in delight! Don't expect a bleak remake of the amusing (and rather psychedelic) 1971-version. It is in every way a genuine Tim Burton-picture, stacked with cute imagery, wacky humor and bizarre characters, but at the aforementioned time true-blue enough to the spirit of the novel. Roald Dahl would've been proud. It too features outstanding performances past the entire cast. Johnny Depp gives united states a strange, most creepy Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore is a perfect Charlie, the Grandparents are lovable and wacky, and the five other children and their parents are amusingly irritating. And last but not least, an excellent soundtrack by Mr. Danny Elfman, reminiscent of both Edward Scissorhands and his early on Oingo Boingo-days. Go meet this with your parents, children, grandparents, movie vitrify-friends, nephews and nieces ... they will be equally delighted!
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An interesting remake that really does stand lonely
I should hate this, being such a fan of the original, just to be honest I actually like information technology. The story has been realised in a lot more of an appropriate style for the modern world. Tim Burton has however again done a tremendous job of bringing this fantasy world to life. Information technology's eccentric, wonderfully mad, funny and merely lovable. It does a better task of bringing the original material to the screen than the original, the only trouble I take is with Johnny Depp. I don't have I problem with his acting, I think it's swell, I just feel he'southward been directed to play the role as well weirdly. The "tragic madness" of his character doesn't sit down too well with me, and I don't call back all of the dorsum-story was necessary. Aside from that it is a great film that does stand to the original.
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2005: A Film Tragedy
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This movie was only awful. I am waiting for someone, anyone, to indicate out that Johnny Depp was just terrible. The beginning twenty minutes, in a grandiose way, leads us to a giant human being named Willy Wonka who can put the world on it'southward toes by putting golden tickets inside five candy bars. Then when y'all meet Wonka, he'due south nothing. Johnny Depp is as pale as a sheet; I'm non referring to his white makeup and fake white teeth, but his interim. He's doing an fake of Jim Carrey doing an imitation of Michael Jackson. His Wonka non believable at all. The kids are just bad. Rich, and bad. You go the whole Hollywood push of "rich kids are evil, while poor kids are perfect", meanwhile, what near the children of Hollywood actors and producers and directors, are they exempt because their parents are artists instead of capitalists? I don't get it. I just don't get it. I really don't go this at all. This movie was so terrible. The songs were horrid. One Oompa Loompa playing them all of them was inexpensive and lame; and the songs fabricated me hide my head in disgust. And there is a segment where Burton pays "tribute" to Stanley Kubrick's "2001", and it's all only cursing to people similar me who literally worship classic films. In the original, Cistron Wilder was believable. He really seemed like the character. He was the character. Merely Depp, every bit usual, was simply performing. Horrible. Horrible. One of the worst movies I take ever seen. A C.G.I. overkill.
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Tim Gives a Stomach Ache..Keep Your Children Away
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There is no mode Tim Burton could make anything without some sicko slant to information technology (as here with a display parody of Disney's "Information technology's a Small, Pocket-size Globe" display at Disney World melting with dolls seeming to drain and becoming disfigured and ghoulish creatures to frighten children.
What was mild dis-ease in the original comes beyond as full-blown sickness in this Burton-ized bastardization. I don't know what trauma he suffered every bit a child, if whatsoever, but he seems hell-bent (literally) on inflicting information technology on other children with "Corpse Brides", making Halloween hellish and now this.
Don't permit this trash or anything else Tim Burton has anything to do with near your children. Period.
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I tin can't milk shake longings for Wilder and tangerine faces...
Director Tim Burton has come a long style since his first job every bit an animator for Disney in the early 1980's. He fabricated several animated shorts, none of which were deemed suitable for children - an early on indication of Burton's dark outlook. However, his hard work and talent did not get unnoticed. His subsequent directorial piece of work on Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) cemented his role as an experimental and visionary director/producer. Nobody else, therefore, was surely more suitable to adapt Dahl'southward much-loved novel, and nobody else was surely daring enough to attempt a re-brand of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, directed by Mel Stuart), that enduring classic starring Gene Wilder as Wonka.
Burton'due south repeated use of Depp in previous films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Sleepy Hollow to name just three) indicated him to exist an obvious and, it could be argued, perfect choice to cast as Wonka. Depp is by far the best thing about this film. His character'due south whole persona - the costume and trunk language, the tone of his voice, his pithy lines delivered in a contemptuous and still charming mode, are all presented in such a mode to add together upwardly to a well deserved challenge to Wilder's crown. Simply does he steal it? I'd say he doesn't. For someone that grew up with Roald Dahl'south novels and moving picture adaptations, Wilder IS Wonka. Trying to ignore my obvious bias, I believe Depp does put upwardly a good fight, and perhaps if the parents of the four terrible children had shown more spark, or been actors of a higher calibre, his comic moments would have had much more affect.
Burton's other muse, Helena Bonham Carter, is mis-cast equally Charlie's mother. Her lines are delivered distractedly and with the air of someone very enlightened of her status in the film manufacture. Thankfully her role is quite minor and doesn't bear on negatively upon the pic. Freddie Highmore is fairly insipid, yet non offensive in his role of Charlie. The same description tin can be applied to David Kelley, who plays his Grandpa Joe. With the exception of Augustus Gloop, whose role is comparatively modest, the iv ticket-winning children do not live upwardly to expectations or standards ready in the '71 Mel Stuart version. They simply serve to mildly irritate and disappoint, especially Veruca and Violet. But I incertitude anyone could lucifer Julie Dawn Cole, the original Veruca.
A certain amount of furore has surrounded Deep Roy, the 4ft 4" tall actor who plays every single one of Wonka's all-singing, all-dancing Oompa Loompas. He also plays Wonka'southward therapist and, in a tongue-in-cheek moment, appears briefly on the closing sequence where he is revealed to exist the narrator. The effects used to re-produce Roy as every single Oompa-Loompa I believe detract from the film. When viewing scenes, surely it'due south preferable to be absorbed and involved than to be distracted by special effects and wondering 'how/why did they do that?' Additionally, Roy's scenes are the only ones to feature music - there is no Wonka or Grandpa Joe breaking into vocal and dance in this adaptation. All nosotros get hither are the Oompa-Loompa's didactic lyrics, which unfortunately are drowned out by below-par sound editing.
In an unprecedented motion, Burton and screenwriter James August have given Wonka a history. Christopher Lee, who is sadly under-used in this film, plays his father, and nosotros get to find out exactly why Wonka is such an enigma. I won't reveal the outcome, brusque of saying it'south pretty unsatisfying and takes away Wonka's mystery - the very matter that makes him appealing. Claims have been fabricated that this adaptation follows Dahl's novel much more closely than the 1971 version, of which it does - everything is followed almost to the letter. Unfortunately, the Wonka/father storyline clearly undermines whatsoever try the film has fabricated to stay true to Dahl's novel - should Dahl had wished there to exist a father figure, he would have included that in his book. Even so, certain artistic license is e'er taken when adapting books and plays to the big screen, and this creativity is needed to keep images and story lines fresh and to prevent any static grounding.
Every bit regards the imagery of the motion-picture show, well, it'due south a Burton picture and truthful to form we aren't disappointed. Typically, we enter and exit the picture show during gentle snow-autumn. The poor Buckets' house leans pitifully to 1 side and almost makes you shiver when Charlie climbs into bed underneath a gaping whole in the roof. Colour is suitably hued down autonomously from certain scenes in the factory where the vibrant colours bring the songs and sets to life - the Chocolate Room and the Gunkhole Ride come up alive, and the Television Room virtually blinds. The simply fault I could find, and it is minor, is that at sure points of the Chocolate Room scene, the chocolate river where Augustus Gloop meets his untimely suction looks more like brownish h2o than creamy chocolate. Apart from the afore-mentioned poor sound editing of the featured songs, audio here is of a top standard. Sound effects are clear, no dialogue is gone unheard and the musical score is in keeping with the tone of the moving-picture show.
Verdict - It's like shooting fish in a barrel to exist over-picky when comparison a motion-picture show not just to a novel, but also to an earlier, much loved and highly-established motion picture adaptation. Nonetheless, faults nonetheless, this is watchable fare that should appeal to all ages. Is information technology a classic? No.
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Rather disappointing effort from Tim Burton...
I know that the 1971 musical was unfaithful to the book, but I did much adopt that version to this well-intentioned but somewhat disappointing attempt from Tim Burton, the manager of Batman and Edward Scissorhands, and this adaptation was in some manner more unfaithful in spirit than the 1971 film. The picture does have some lovely sets and inventive visuals, the gunkhole scene is fun if not as much as in the Wilder version, a great job is done with the Veruca Common salt/squirrel scene and I liked the performances of Helena Bonham Carter, David Kelly and Freddie Highmore. But I was disappointed with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. He just lacked the amuse and grace Factor Wilder brought to the character, and I don't call back Roald Dahl intended a characterisation that was more Michael Jackson than Willy Wonka. Some of the bandage overact, especially the girl who plays Veruca Salt, even for the character the spiteful spoilt brat deed was way overdone. I liked the music score by Danny Elfman which is filled with whimsy and appealing oddballness(I much prefer his Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare Before Christmas scores however), but the Oompa Loompa songs were rather annoying with none of the noisy melodies memorable and were shot like a music video. Tim Burton obviously tried to make the story darker, and in some respects to the volume, it didn't quite work. A skilful example was the case of the boosted character of Dr Wonka, every bit much every bit I like Christopher Lee, and he did perform well, but his character was unnecessary, and the script with some over-explanatory narration lacked the sparkle of the 1971 flick consequently. The grandparents did bring some comedy, and the motion-picture show does start off well. But the unfaithfulness of the terminal one-half, meant that the whole film felt rushed and lacking in amuse and magic which the Wilder had aplenty. 6/10 Bethany Cox.
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speechless (well, non quite)
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Ahem, where practice I start? When seeing this movie the showtime thing that struck me was the "heady" music at the beginning which reminded me a bit of Harry Potter. The opening scene was absolutely riveting, showing the wrapping of bars of chocolate. I almost fell off my sit because I was so intrigued. The beginning of the picture surpassed itself in making us realize by near 2 minutes of it that it was going to exist absolutely dreadful. The real fun began when we met Willy Wonka. I won't say who he reminded me of.. anyone who'southward seen the movie would know and I don't desire to spoil the pleasant surprise for those of you lot who oasis't yet had the honour. The oompaloompa dances were mayhap the worst things I have ever seen. Who choreographed them?! I want to meet this insane idiot! It literally made me want to puke. They had an eerie kind of synchronization which was so unnatural that it was scary. I admit to finding the first dance slightly amusing but by the time I'd got to the 4th I was simply staring at the screen in disgust.
Words of alarm: Don't go and see this sad alibi for entertainment. Encounter the original!!
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Flat, plodding, atrocious adaptation
Flat, plodding, awful adaptation of Roald Dahl's extraordinary novel. One time once again, Tim Burton demonstrates that he is not a storyteller; he is, in fact, a man lucky enough to be able to surround himself with very talented cinematographers, production designers and publicists. Unfortunately, he has no educated friends who are script editors.
His only brilliant moving-picture show, ED Forest, is light years away from this putrid mess and was good because of the script and despite Burton.
I thing Burton is incapable of doing is giving a narrative momentum. In this outing, Wonka takes his children and their guardians on a tour of his manufacturing plant. We follow the group from room to room and are forced to suffer cataclysmically puerile songs from cloned Oompa-Loompahs, all played past the aforementioned irritating midget.
The film does not take the darker subplot of the original film and the wheelchair-like pacing drove me close to igniting the screen with the nearest blowtorch.
Johnny Depp is just wrong as Wonka. He's ho-hum, also, because he's a "weirdo" who knows he's a weirdo and wants everybody else to know information technology, likewise. He's like the annoying guy at a social gathering who tells everybody how crazy he is. No, Mr. Depp, your weirdo is a bore.
The production pattern is what you'd wait for the fortune spent on this ballgame and the cinematography is adequate.
But the gloriously overrated Tim Burton, who has managed to pull the wool over many people'due south optics for over a decade at present, could brand a rich concept such equally this a forgettable bore and a candidate for PND (Permanent Negative Devastation).
Equally for screenwriter John August (scribe of the rancid Large FISH), please throw your calculator away and retire with Burton.
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Depp has done it again as Willy Wonka. Yes my children
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As i frequently watched one of the most loved Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie (2005 version), and I would love to give my honest and loving stance about this wondrous, never seen anything like this before moving-picture show with the famous and talented Johnny Depp. This motion-picture show is full of Burtions imagination and talent to make Ronald Daul'southward "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" come to life with the amazing bandage, this Risk, One-act, and family picture that tells the story of A young male child wins a tour through the near magnificent chocolate factory in the globe, led by the world'due south most unusual processed maker.
This pic takes place in Munich, Federal republic of germany, in a poor village. The principal characters are Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Mrs. Saucepan, Mrs. Beauregarde, Mr. Salt and DocWanka. The story of this flick is When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in v split up chocolate bars, causing complete mayhem. The tickets start to be found, with the fifth going to a very special boy, called Charlie Bucket. With his Gramps, Charlie joins the residual of the children to experience the most amazing manufactory e'er. But not everything goes to plan inside the factory.
Where to start with the cast......Johnny Depp did Phenomenal as Willy Wonka. And some Tim Burton films Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are in his films. Freddie Highmore did amazing playing Charlie Bucket, Johnny Depp suggested Freddie Highmore to play Charlie, which Depp has an centre for young talent in other people, and that's why I respect him. He gives young people chances to prove their talent.. Yet, how they casted David Kelly equally grandpa Joe was wise, because he bombed and did amazing in that part. Helena Bonham Carter always gets into the role so fast y'all tin't believe who she is 100% of the fourth dimension. Lastly oh my goodness how they casted Dr.Wanka..... Christopher Lee...Beloved that guy. Lee'south Interim changes the whole atmosphere of the motion-picture show.
Things that I loved about the movie where Johnny Depp played a Mad hatter similar role, but took to some other whole level of interim. Johnny Depp has acted over 35 years. I think this movie gave him so much more than talent in his career. Some movies make the histrion/Extra take ameliorate experience or talent. I think this motion picture is what made Depp more famous. I didn't similar how they casted the male child, he just didn't accept the spirit of the other, and love for acting as the other role player/Actress did.
The lessons I learned from this amazing film are to take care of your family is more important than annihilation.The best things in life are worth waiting for and be grateful for the important and unproblematic things in life, don't focus on what you desire, focus on what lies ahead of you, and if you dream it, you tin can get in happen. Nada is impossible. What I remember others will learn from this heartfelt family unit film is that ane affair in the world you should be looking for is if you can dream it, you tin can make it happen, aught is impossible, and lastly always expect for the affair your not looking for because information technology might be in front of your face, and yous don't know information technology.
The group of people that would exist interested in this motion-picture show is Johnny Depp films, weird movies or a movie about dreaming and having that dream come up true. I would recommend this movie 100% because it really hit me hard when I watched it considering I started dreaming big and some of my dreams came truthful, and I don't focus on the bad in the globe, I tried to focus on the good. The rating is PG. My final word on this film is watch information technology, recall about, and spread what the movie message is. Information technology is skilful because I have a loftier respect for Johnny and Tim's piece of work. So I'thousand not surprised by how skillful Charlie and the Chocolate Manufactory is.
I Give "Charlie and the Chocolate Manufactory" v stars out of 5 stars.
Motion-picture show review: This flick really touches on the subject of taking care of loved ones, and the love for chocolate. Hollywood lacks films like this anymore considering movies like this one i believe that some parts depp was not acting at all, he was really feeling the emotions of the character. The beloved for Ronald Daul's stories over 77 years, hollywood has made films based on his books like the BFG, Witches, Fantastic Mr.Fox, Chitty Bang Bang, the movie business has always washed an astonishing job, but with Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing plant they actually make the story come up alive with JOhnny Depp's part as Willy Wonka. Depp made me feel that he really was the character of Willy Wonka, and as the kids become through his manufactory. They go tempted to eat his candy, mucilage, and his crazy ideas in the factory, and the ane thing they show in this moving-picture show isc kids don't follow directions, only the smart ones or like Charlie with is grandpa, which had noesis of the manufacturing plant because he worked in the chocolate manufacturing plant for southward long time. I have never seen a film with different kinds of acting and costumes, and fun music. Another reason i have so high respect for this film and DEpp, he accepted the part equally Willy Wonka without reading the script first, that's talent, and art in acting that is not in movies anymore.
Fun Facts 1.Deep Roy was paid $1 meg dollars to play all the Oompa Loompas 2.40 existent squirrels were trained to bound on Veruca Common salt iii.Willy Wonka'southward Boat took 20 weeks to build 4.Nestle provided one,850 bars of real chocolate for the movie 5.It took 6 months to create the model of the town half-dozen.The colors were muted at the start of the film on purpose vii.The chocolate river was fabricated with existent chocolate 8Johnny Depp was nervous about shooting in the glass elevator 9.Gregory Peck passed away before getting the gamble to play Grandfather Joe x.Depp suggested Freddie Highmore for the role of Charlie
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Picayune girl? Don't affect that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!
I never cease to be amazed by the versatility of Johnny Depp. Whether he is a pirate or writing Peter Pan or an adventurer or a criminal, he never fails to entertain. There is nix he hasn't done in his 45 films, or will not have washed in the five films currently in production or the 15 films in pre-production. Even as the creepy Willy Wonka (Think Michael Jackson for comparison.), he was magnificent. Perhaps we take to blame his father (Christopher Lee) for some of that creepiness. After all, depriving your kid of Halloween candy is just mean.
But, the real star of this moving picture was Charlie (Freddie Highmore), who was the only sane child that arrived at the factory. He was surrounded past 4 of the most obnoxious children (and their obnoxious parents) that I have e'er seen. They got what they deserved.
The colour, imagination, costumes, and sets were magnificent. It was such a pleasure to scout.
Depp comes through once again. I am not surprised.
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No Heart No Soul
This is a and so-and then adaption of the book. However I love the first movies lovable brats! This flick not fifty-fifty Charlie is lovable!
The original movie has a middle. You liked the bratty children and Willy Wonka because were relate-able. No and then in this version. The original also had a very magical spirit to it. This movie has no heart or soul! It is creepy.
In the first movie The children were regular children. In this version nosotros have "Hollywood Children". There is a bigger budget for this production just that was not an improvement.
This movie has has "Millions to spare" on special effects. Since these effects are washed in post production the children in this production had nothing to human activity to when they shot their part. And then they are emotionally not involved in the scenes which harms this film!
The film is over produced.(They accept i man play all the om pa- lompas). However the best affair they did with the millions was the demise of Veruca Salt. They were able to do the squirrels (that was in the volume). Notwithstanding I like the first movie'southward Veruca Table salt'due south better.
Johnny Depp plays Wonka similar he is Michael Jackson. Then that means he is simply creepy. In The volume Wonka isn't a creep! He loves children! In this moving picture he isn't a nice person! I am sure this movie will be a box part hit! I just hope if they do "Charlie and slap-up glass elevator" they will make it with care. In fact they should let Chris Columbus directly it!
Tim Burton is good in worlds of his ain creation but his baroque bear upon harms the overall effect of this motion-picture show .
Practice yourself a favor buy the original film and pass on this!
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Enough of a disappointment to make Slugworth proud
This doesn't concur a candle to the 1971 original archetype. Period. Aye the special effects are superior but beyond that information technology is instantly forgettable. Gene Wilder had a point that this movie had none other than a much needed cash moo-cow for this summertime'south weaker box office. Johnny Depp is a skilful role player simply this role was completely wrong for him. His choices of playing Wonka as clutzy and spaced out conflicts with the fact Willy Wonka is supposed to be a mastermind of the candy business concern. So of course there is the fact Depp's Wonka looks like something out of a Marilyn Manson video no parent with fifty-fifty half of a brain would bring their kids most. Burton's added back story of Wonka's childhood was his standard fare of misunderstood creative person who just wants to feel like he fits in the universe. The luminescence of Wilder's operation was the fact he played someone who came beyond as a nutcase only was in fact a misunderstood genius always a step ahead of everyone else. And then there's the Oompas and their musical numbers. Oy! Half the time information technology's almost impossible to understand their vocals and what they're singing. I recollect this movie proves the general movie going public has become as catatonic in the encephalon equally Depp's portrayal in this film. The children and their parents in this film were equally as practically lifeless. No wonder Hollywood is having trouble correct at present. This is so much of an insult to the 1971 classic that it leaves you lot wondering what archetype they'll ruin side by side to go an all age audience back into the theatres.
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Burton does information technology again !
I accept seen Charlie & The Chocolate Factory last dark and though I normally don't care very much in giving my stance, the journey Thousand. Burton and his team made me cross deserves an homage. Especially with all that criticism rising effectually the film before it has been released.
I accept been a Tim Burton fan for more than a decade now; I grew up with his films. But what I have been through yesterday his really unique. I actually never thought he would offering usa such a film ane solar day. Fans of his first flow, with all the alone and drastic characters won't similar it for certain. Since Mars Attacks !, and more than specifically since Big Fish, Burton decided to tell things differently. His vision of the earth slightly changed in every of his films : now, the rejected freak comes down to the world and stays. A earth that remains frightening and weird fifty-fifty thought we call it "reality" but a world worth living in. And that's what Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is all about… It all begins with a main title sequence that may exist i of the main weaknesses of the pic. The sequence is very entertaining and visually aggressive but they decided to get with CGI and information technology looks like it was a decision they made in last minute. Since the film was proudly made with "existent" sets, "existent" Oompas Loompas, "existent" squirrels, the main title looks inappropriate. It's not that important but it's a Tim Burton film and we know how much he usually works on his main title. Hopefully, Danny Elfman is there with a crazy mix of the Edward Scissorhands and Spider-Man (the music when the title of the film appears gave me shivers), a true musical roller-coaster that gives a hint on what his score will sound like through the film.
Subsequently that, it's just emotions. All kinds of them: laughs (many – the audience laughed almost every thirty seconds), tears of joy (we all know Charlie'south gonna find that ticket but when he does, you just can't refrain your middle to beat out faster), mercy (the way Burton depicts the social misery of the Bucket's family is really touching), anaesthesia (the Wonka Manufactory and its many rooms is truthful wonder, one the most achieved pattern Burton e'er offered the states) and many mores. Very much like the book, even though information technology seems elementary and childish, you would like to cease for a second to collect those feelings and try to analyze them but you don't accept the time. It just never stops (I realize it might exist a flaw for some people in fact). Burton never has been and so generous in terms of human warmness.
Johnny Depp proposes another inventive and completely wacky interpretation hither. I won't compare with Gene Wilder since I don't know the first film very well (pretty unknown flick here in Europe) and those comparisons should terminate anyhow. Depp makes of Wonka a tormented and unadapted grapheme who doesn't know much about common courtesy and doesn't actually care anyway. He built up his own universe in response to his disciplinarian begetter and he's pretty proud of it. He simply doesn't want those "weird" (a word he likes – yous've all seen the TV spots) and dull parents with their despicable children to ruin what is life is based on. Even so… So Depp'south Wonka is actually very moving and pathetic in his attempts to entertain his visitors. As Burton does everything he can to make you hate Augustus, Vercua, Violet and Mike at the moment y'all first see them, yous get instantly closer to Wonka when you noticed he feels the aforementioned. In addition to that, John August's vision of Wonka's past (including an e'er perfect cameo by Christopher Lee) offers the character a real depth you didn't wait.
Danny Elfman is as well one of the main attractions of the film. While his score is already classic Burton/Elfman work with some interesting experiments (the master themes are splendid), the songs he wrote for the Oompas Loompas are just then funny. Hugh laughs in the audience for some musical choices. Those songs don't intend to stay with you for months (it would have been hard as they're based on Dahl'southward lyrics that doesn't allow Broadway impulses), they're just off-crush numbers playing with many references in so many styles. Oingo Boingo fans have to buy the soundtrack when information technology'll come out, it'll bring them back xv years ago.
What tin can I tell you more ? McDowell's sets are amazing, Pescucci's work is impressive as well as Rousselot'southward beautiful cinematography. Some Oscar Nominations should autumn here.
Every bit for the catastrophe, without revealing information technology, August'south additions are really touching and fit perfectly to Burton's new approach. Fifty-fifty though the terminal shot tempers the "family" theme that he developed through the pic (it'due south still Burton, non Disney), Burton makes you feel good because he feels good (and what I'chiliad writing hither will ring a bell when yous'll see the movie). I don't know for you but afterwards so many distressed and pessimistic films, it really moved to come across that he found a certain peace. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is a stride forward in the direction he gave to his career with Large Fish. He lost his male parent, he became i, he'due south getting older and all those questions and doubts are expressed in many of import and very complex images and scenes he imagined for the moving picture. That's why I could call this film the "Edward Scissorhands" of his new menses. Those films are very dissimilar merely gave me both some very essential emotions.
Cheers, M.Burton. Thank you very much
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It's a mercy that Roald Dahl never lived to encounter this piece of dreck
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What a sad occasion. I should say at the start that Johnny Depp is 1 of my favorite actors of all time, and that -- until his last iii films -- Tim Burton was one of my two favorite directors (the other beingness Terry Gilliam).
I'm sure Depp will continue to make many more than superb films -- only I have no want to e'er see another Tim Burton movie once more. This picture show is not only untrue to the book, most monstrously and so in its catastrophe (which I can inappreciably bring myself to describe) but actually throughout the film in its cheap, unimaginative, eye-processed.
Depp, evidently channeling a frightening mixture of Pee Wee Herman and Anthony Perkins (thus perhaps the gratis "Psycho" reference in the film?), is neither charming nor surprising; he lacks the sly warmth of Gene Wilder, who to my mind will *always* exist the existent Willy Wonka. His factory, resembling the assembly lines of "Edward Scissorhands," but on steroids, is a vast, impersonal cave, without a unmarried ring of emotional truth. Sure, all the kids but Charlie are brats -- just here, Willie Wonka is one too, and though Charlie may be a proficient boy, he gets very few speaking lines, and he and Granddaddy Joe have as few occasions for fun every bit practise nosotros, the viewers.
During production, Burton talked about how he disliked the older version, and seemed to promise a darker version truer to Dahl's witty disdain for the the adult globe. But hither, everyone -- child, adult, and elderly person is insulted with visions whose "darkness" is not a production of melancholy, but of cynicism. There is no goodness hither, no meaningful badness either. The first flashback to Wonka's dentist father (Chrisopher Lee, wonderful equally ever) is a lovely touch, merely the ending of the film, which demands that little Charlie somehow "heal" the wounded psyche of Wonka and re-unite him with his dentist dad, is the worst slice of poisoned treacle always to go out a factory.
The whole thing ought to be flushed downward a garbage chute -- it's a bad nut.
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POOR REMAKE
This has got to be the worst remake of a film in history. POOR casting. Non a fan of Tim Burton'south work
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Who and the Chocolate Factory?
This movie was supposedly meant to follow Roald Dahl archetype children's book? I'k not sure what volume they're following, but in that location's stuff in this movie that would make poor Mr. Dahl gag on an Everlasting Gobstopper.
This is easily the weakest piece of work for both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Burton only has no concept of the joyous celebration and positive message of the original manuscript. Instead, he delivers a mean spirited and misguided estimation that is needlessly grim and depressing. Depp appears to exist concocting a graphic symbol which is a grotesque montage of The Wicked Witch of the Westward, Michael Jackson, and Carrot Top. He always has some psychotic expression on his face up which distracts you lot from the chief story. The Oompa Loompas (actually ane guy multiplied by awful CGI) are sinister looking, and their songs stink. The children vary from slow to abrasive.
As if this isn't bad plenty, the script includes ugly back stories about Wonka that add together goose egg, disrupt the menstruum of the story, and transform a character originally written besides-intentioned but cautiously secretive into a vile, selfish, roughshod freak of nature devoid of whatever redeeming qualities at all. The tacked on sequence about Wonka's family issues is merely excruciatingly painful to sit down through. A definite misfire on this ane.
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