Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Oh, I know that. Just going off of previous posts.

Didn't really care for this movie for a myriad of reasons...yes, I know it's truer to the original book than the '71 version, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better movie. Depp's interpretation of Wonka seemed to be a cross between Michael Jackson and Carol Channing, but I don't blame him entirely for that, Burton has to take some of the blame. The Wonka character comes off in this film as hating children and I found that very troublesome...Gene Wilder's Wonka had a keen eye for bad children, but I never got the impression that he hated children. I hated most of the children (Mike Teevee was particularly repulsive) and I found it kind of creepy that all of the Oompah Loompas were all played by a single actor. The one thing in this film that I preferred to the 1971 version? Freddie Highmore as Charlie...liked him a lot better than Peter Ostrum in the '71 film.