Charlie and the chocolate factory!

It is EXCELLENT! Johnny Depp is an amazing actor, the film is entertaining, engaging, sufficiently humorous and well worth two hours of any family's time. I greatly recommend!!

5 stars. :D
 
I'll be the opposition then, the movie was ok, but not a patch on the original, Johnny Depp saved this movie from being an outright disaster, the whole thing just felt like it was going through the motions of the story as fast as possible. Although all the parts of the original book were there it felt like there was no proper story to it or it wasnt in depth enough. It's hard to explain. It just felt like it was lacking something.

3 stars at the most from me.
 
Well i must say it wasn't a bad film, but it wasn't a very good film either, not a patch on the original.
I must agree i did think Johnny Depp was pretty good.
I even thought that most of the special effects were better in the original film.
 
5 stars- was very funny and compelling- loved the whole thing and the weirdest thing about it was, I didn't expect to like it one bit.
 
4/5 was a good movie, tons better than the original! How anyone can say that disaster is better than this version I don't know! Good humour, well played by Johnny Depp! The only thing they could have done better was the oompa lumpas! They should have used lots of different people instead of just the same person!
 
I also thought that the film was excellent and I wasn't really that looking forward to going. I only went because my sister is a huge johnny depp fan, and I found that his portrayal of the role was excellent, althouhg I personally do seem to like the darkness of all Tim Burton's movies especially sleepy hollow.

:) :) :) :)
 
Very disappointing movie.

Depp was good and some of the lines he had where pretty funny, the canabalism one and telling the veruca's dad he was weird class!

Julia Winter played Veruca well, and she could be a actress to watch as she grows up.

Using the same slapstick walking into the glass elevator twice was a mistake.

And the book ended with Charlie in the Glass Elevator which was then the basis of Charlie and the Glass Elevator sequel book.
 
People who totally love the original will not neccessarily love this movie - they went in different directions. But Roald Dahl hated the original movie, and, apart from a few chapters dropped and the addition of a back story, this is the story as Dahl wrote it, and, as Tessa Dahl has stated publically, this is the film her father would have wanted on screen.

The Michael Jackson comparisons in this I don't get - Depp plays the character more along the line of a Howard Hughes for the most part, with a sinister and malicious glint in his eyes when things go awry.

Add to this the noRAB to other movies (Edward ScissorhanRAB, Pirates of the Caribbean and 2001 - which in itself was a sly dig at Planet of the Apes), stunning score as per usual from Elfman and generally good performances all round, this was the film I imagined when I read the book as a child and in more recent times when I have read it to my neices and nephews.

But then again, I was never a fan of the original as I thought it was too saccharine and toned down for the international market - this is supposed to be a morality tale, and that was eradicated in the last movie, making it a musical, and losing Dahl's own songs for the Oompah Loompahs, something which is rectified in this film

This one will split audiences, but I think in 20 years time, it will be this one, and not the Gene Wilder version, which will be on constant replay in most kiRAB' bedrooms
 
10/10, MrWoman you must cum from some wierd place if you didnt think it was good, but with a name like that you must be from somewhere wierd or ur something wierd
 
Well from your reviews I think it is eitehr a love or hate film! You cannot be in between if it's your film you love it if it isn't your cup of tea you hate it! Personally I don think i will love it! I am sdeeing it nerxt week and hope it is great!
 
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