The All Singing, All Dancing Remade Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Thread.

Haven't seen it yet, but i was driving to wrok yesterday and the radio station were interviewing Julie Dawn Cole (the original Veruca Salt), and at the end of the interview they played the entire "I want it now" song...i was singing loudly while driving down the motorway

"I WANT A BEAN FEAST!!!"

love it!!
 
i went to see it tonight and it was very good but not a patch on the Original :)

but thats because they over did the Special FX and changed the damn Umpa Lumpas :(, i know why they changed them but still i was gutted.

The songs in the Movie are ok but are over the top at the same time.

Mr Depp reminded me of Mr Jackson playing his role and i felt very strange every time he spoke.
 
Did they use a lot of Special FX then? I know I was happy to hear that Burton made many sets for the film for example the room where you can eat everything.
 
it seemed like there was far too much Special FX, the room with the Garden set is real and looked great.

the sets are real but they just used some Special FX to add somthing extra, for me some of the Effects are not the best either and bring the movie down a few notches in the wow factor.

Maybe its just me though :)
 
I thought the movie was good.Freddie Highmore as Charlie played the part very well.There was a couple of scenes in the movie where i felt sorry for Charlie because of Freddie Highmore performance.

Thought Johnny Depp was pretty good as Wonka

The only thing that did annoy me was when the Oompa Loompas would sing their songs.I personally found it difficult to make out what they were actually saying.I could hear certain worRAB here & there.Did anyone else have this trouble?.

I also thought that Christopher Lee was the narrator but it turns out it's somebody called Geoffrey Holder

Can i aslo mention that when Charlie found the Golden Ticket some people in the cinema i was at actually applauded which i found abit strange also when the movie finished some people applauded.
 
Johnny Depp was a huge letdown as Willy Wonka as he failed in his bid to eclipse Gene Wilder's performance...he used the wrong accent...his hair looked a mess and he played the character too dark...in summary it was embarrassing from start to finish and I will not be watching this film ever again...
 
Went to see it last night with 3 others and we all left thinking it was just excellent. Johnny Depp was amazing as Willy Wonka, and reminded me more of the book's Willy (even Quentin Blake's illustrations looked like the Willy Wonka Johnny Depp portrayed)...

Obviously this will be compared to the original film, but in fairness it shouldn't be as the original film wasn't an accurate interpretation of the book, and this isn't a remake of THAT film, it's another interpretation of the original book. Willy Wonka's character in the original film is nothing like that in the book... he IS aloof, detatched and manic in the book, and Johnny Depp got that across perfectly... His amazement at what he was seeing in his own factory was also a joy to see.

I didn't think i'd like the Oompa-Loompa's all being played by the same person, but I thought they were so good. Their songs cracked me up every time, as did Johnny Depp's reactions to them. He was laugh out loud funny throughout the whole film.

There were some excellent visuals, too. The whipped cream one was so bizarre it was hilarious. The boat ride through the chocolate river was stunning

The fact that squirrels were used instead of geese (as in the book), that there was no awful Slugworth backstory (as in the book), and that all the original characters were as they should be makes this film a huge hit for me, and hopefully I'll go to see it again before it's released on dvd.
 
The movie was fantastic - lots of very adult refrences and Willy Wonka was amazing.
Gene Wilder was crap compared to Johnny Depp.
This also followed the book a lot more and the ompa lumpa (sp?) songs were taken from the original book. Am sure Rohld Dahl would have been pleased.
 
I've just seen it myself and thought it was excellent. I'm afraid I didn't like the Oompa's songs at all. The lyrics were the only part that make them bearable. I'm really surprised that despite the music being written by, and the song song by Danny Elfman, they still failed totally. I also don't like the Oompa Loompas being clones. I also didn't like the over-Americanisation of the script, and felt the subplot with Wonka's father was un-necessary, but admittedly well done.

However Johnny Depp was brilliant, Freddie Highmore as Charlie was as good as I expected (having seen him with Depp in Finding Neverland), and the other 4 kiRAB were just as annoying as they should be :). Oh and the music apart from the Oompa Loompa numbers is well up to Elfman's usual standarRAB!
 
I thought it was great, unlike the 1971 version it *was* the book in film form (in fact not that far off from how I imagined it to look when I read it). The only thing I wasn't too sure about was the back story about his father and the ending that it entails. I prefer Wonka as a quiet, unconfident, vulnerable character - which of course is how he would be if he'd been shut up in a factory for a couple of decades.

I was a huge Dahl fan as a child and was never that keen on the Gene Wilder version. too much was changed from the book (I particually don't like the contractual stuff at the end and the whole slugworth subplot). The point of the story (which is a moral of how to bring your kiRAB up) was too clouded in the first version, particually because of the emphasis on Wonka rather than Charlie. The new version has a far cleaner plot
 
True.

and the other thing about the 1971 version was that it was produced in association with Quaker Oats to promote their line of Wonka chocolate.... which they abandoned before launch
 
I'm not a huge fan of the original as I feel it drifts too far away from the book, but the new films looks fantastic. Johnny Depp is the PERFECT Willy Wonker IMO, can't wait to see it!
 
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