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Haven’t watched it yet as it’s a birthday present for my daughter but it looks good. Thank you
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I loved the film as so did all my children they are of diffrent ages 3 upto 14 years. The colours and the imagination exelled in it. Just spellbounding for the younger children and fun for the older ones. Just Great!
Mel Stuart's original Willa Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971) has been given a fresh coat of paint as Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.From the mind that brought us Beetle Juice,Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas,Tim Burton is back in the directors seat for the much anticipated remake of the much loved original. The original caught hold of everyone's imagination and few people forgot Gene Wilder's strong performance as Willy Wonka.Johnny Depp steps up to the role of Wonka this time and does just as good a job,if not a better one,of portraying the unparalleled genius in confectionery.If you thought Depp was strange as Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Carribean,you'll find that he is even more strange(which is perfect)for this adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book. You know the story,its so simple yet so effective.A young boy named Charlie who is poor,overcomes all odds to become one of only five children who are lucky enough to find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka Chocolate bars which wins them a tour of the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. All the children but Charlie are greedy,spoilt and stuck up,and one by one each of them receive their just desserts whilst Charlie see's his dreams come true. This film matches the first in many ways especially Depp as Wonka and the methods in which the children are rid of is wonderfully entertaining.For example fat Augustus Gloop falls into a giant Chocolate stream and is sucked up rather delightfully by a huge straw.The film also sheds some light on Charlie's past,something which the original doesn't and this makes the story more interesting and when you watch the ending,makes it that extra little bit special.From Everlasting Gobstoppers in the inventing room,talented squirrels in the nut room and flying glass elevators whizzing you off to different rooms of the ingeniously designed factory,the film is one big adventure. Perhaps the only thing that stopped me from giving this 5/5 was the Oompa-Loompas.Whilst still entertaining,they for me were not half as good as the Oompa-Loompas in the original. You would be crazy not to rent or buy this film,as it is one of the best childrens films around,which adults will also find highly entertaining.Remakes which are as good as the original are hard to come by these days so you just have to see this. This review was written by Chris on 01 April 2006.Read full review
borrowed my friends copy and my 2 yr old fell in love with the oompa loompa's, so had to get our own copy, we tend to watch it every day. i absolutely love tim burtons style but like the fact that he's still kept to roald dahl's story. i loved the original movie as a child, and wasn't convinced this one would even come close, but i find myself singing along to the new songs. timeless, sometimes scary, magical adaptation.
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