Film: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

[drEaMtiMe*@#]

^^^ it's not terrible (well imo it's not anyway), it's just that it's not completely awesome, which is what i along with others were hoping for.

oh, and i just wanted to say that i don't agree with people who said that depps performance was shit. i think he did a good job; my faults with this movie lie in other areas... such as, i just don't think that on a whole things geled together aswell as they could have. and i'm also iffy on some of the slight alterations of the original story. so that's why i'm now reading the book again.

 

[FunkyAlfonzo]

I saw it last night and I was really dissapointed

Tim Burton just doesn't seem to put as much effort in any more. The sets, although good, were not half as imaginative as I was expecting from him. I liked Charlie's house as that was proper Burtonesque style, but the inside of the factory was just a more modern version of what they did in the old one.

The Oompa Loompa songs were shit! Doing exactly what everyone in the pop world does and just taking a genre and applying the words to it with some cheesy stereotypes for costumes.

Most of the jokes were predictable and old.

Depp's wonka, although done pretty well, just didn't do it for me like Gene Wilders version. When someone got something wrong, Wilder would just go a bit schitzo and show this flicker of a dark bastard underneath his flambouyant exterior which freaked me out in a great way as a kid.

I hate writing reports slating movies - especially when they involve a hero of a director, a hero of an actor and one of the best authors of my childhood, but with all that expectation, maybe I was just asking to be dissapointed...

 

[dbighead2]

I'm watching it right now, if my best friend didn't love it so much, I would probably get up right now and turn it off.

I LOVE Depp, he is an amazing actor. But Jim Carey would have been better for this role

 

[L2R]

What a fun time at the movies!

All of the characters were superb. I loved their attitudes and the chemistry they all shared. All of their expressions in the line up before the gates were beautiful.

I liked the oompa loompas but not their songs. The lyrics were too hard to understand. I prefered the old style with Karaoke lyric subtitles.

What i missed most was the fake spy temptation of the original movie. That, with the fizzy lifting drink gave it an awesome sinister element.

I loved the squirrel effects. They were beautiful.

A great, fun movie, but not a shadow next to the original.

 

[on_the_rise_5]

Saw it last night thankfully my opinion is different to the reports in here, i thought it was fantastic, Depp was perfect and Jim carey would have made me angry thoroughly dislike him

 

[LeaderOfThePack]

Johnny reminded me of Stiffler in the third American Pie film....how he'd say something and then do a little fake laugh strait after it......

But otherwise I thought it was sensational.....despite being a scene for scene remake (which took away much of the suspense....you just KNEW what was going to happen), I loved it.

Freddie Highmore was brilliant as Charlie....he was just a normal kid....I was a bit disappointed with Augustus and the other kids....not enough character development....

Also Grandpa Jo seemed to have a lot more depth in the first movie.

I suppose that when you know a movie so well (ie, the first one), it's hard not to take your preconceieved ideas and predudices.

It's a bit of fun, but I'll take the first one thanks...

 

[alkaline44]

sucked. bump.

 

[Blowmonkey]

Expected a lot more out of it, wasn't nearly as funny as I had imagined.

 

[Raven]

it looks kinda...michael jackson icky.i wouldnt even see it at the welfare theatre for 1.75 i dont think

 

[qwe]

they ruined the oompa loompas
they ruined the oompa loompas
they ruined the oompa loompas

 

[silvia saint]

this is not my favourite film that depp has starred in, however he has got to be one of the best actors of our time, and yet he has still not yet received an oscar. to the best of my memory i can't recall a finer actor whose acting is so detached from his real persona. he is definitely my favourite male actor and the only actor whose good looks are second only to his ability, he's cool as fuck too. i love you johnny. *has another drink* lol

 

[Banquo]

rate this flick %)

 

[L2R]

Also, did anyone notice there was only one actor as the oompa loompas, it was the same actor superimposed over and over.

resists immense temptation to reply sarcastically

 

[EisForMe22]

did anybody notice willy wonka talking about coca, instead of cocoa?

Or the oompa loompa's longing for the coc(o)a plant enough to allow themselves to become slaves? oompa loompas vs crack whores? hahahaha

in the original movie willy saved the oompa loompa from swangdoodles, and vermiscous kinids. in the new version they sold there souls for an indulgance.

thoughts? comments?

 

[qwe]

^add to that the fact that the main reason he is obsessed with chocolate is because his father prohibitied it. "ive read in a very prestigious medical journal that some kids are allergic to chocolate and when they eat it.."said something about having to do with the nose changing color iirc

remind you of drug prohibition? prohibit it, make it such a big deal, and people will definitly get more and more interested in it

and look at some of johnny depps other movies and it gives more credibility to the fact that this movie has drug undertones

 

[mariacallas]

meh...it was okay. A bit bland.

 

[silvia saint]

^add to that the fact that the main reason he is obsessed with chocolate is because his father prohibitied it. "ive read in a very prestigious medical journal that some kids are allergic to chocolate and when they eat it.."said something about having to do with the nose changing color iirc

remind you of drug prohibition? prohibit it, make it such a big deal, and people will definitly get more and more interested in it

and look at some of johnny depps other movies and it gives more credibility to the fact that this movie has drug undertones

yeah i was thinking the same about that scene. "why take the risk?". it was definitely a drug reference.

i'm not so sure about the cocoa being said as coca thing though. it's hard to tell whether it was just coming out like that due to his odd voice, however the "all they'd ever think about was cocoa beans" makes me think the poster who implied the reference may be onto something and that the weird ambiguous pronunciation of cocoa may have been to fool the mpaa for a rating. reminds me of the acid like boat trip in the original and how to the best of my knowledge it was missing from some later versions. is that correct?

 

[mariacallas]

meh...it was okay. A bit bland.

After watching this again yesterday on HBO I retract my statement. I was probably a little sick when I first viewed it. I LOVE IT!!!!! LOVEEEE IT!!!

It gave me the same syrupy sugary feeling like when I watched Cat in the Hat....and i love that feeling.