Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reviews

The visions of Dahl and Burton perfectly complement each other (please see Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox as a point of direct contrast here) and the film is therefore faithful to the book in a modern transposition (for instance the updating of Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teevee are prefect, and fully faithful to Dahl's characters). It is acerbic, funny, unsettling, with a good fondant centre, immeasurably superior to the Gene Wilde version I grew up with.
However, the British accents referring to 'candy' grates massively: please choose one or the other.

There are very few films that are so recognised that they cannot be remade. This remake is full of flaws and doesn't even hit the standards of the orignal classic. The visuals on certain characters is unbelieveably poor,its completely obvious. The songs are not very clever and are no way near as iconic as the original. The biggest problem was Johnny Depp, unfortunately, he just didn't fit the role of Willy Wonka, espescially compared to Gene Wilder. People keep claiming that this remake has a darker atmosphere. This I completely disagree with, the original's nightmare tunnel scene is more iconic and terrifying than anything this film could come up with.

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are at it again. "Charlie" was a darker and more eerie take on Roald Dahl's famous novel. Though it takes a different direction it still comes out as entertaining with Depp's classic and hysterical performance. 3.5/5

Tim Burton's colourful, innovative and darkly comic take on Roald Dahl's children story is possibly too weird for it's own good and ends up being a hollow series of well concieved set-pieces and below average musical numbers.
You have to admire Burton for his fearless approach to Dahl's book. Everything in this film looks and feels dizzying and at times it is like a overdose of sugar to your senses. Production design by Alex McDowell looks fantastic and Philippe Rousselot's camerawork feels also fresh.
It is surprisingly the musical numbers that are not that well concieved here and are more annoying than enjoyable. Burton and his composer Danny Elfman cannot bring enough life or sparks in them and therefore all the musical numbers feel forced and honestly a bit pointless in this otherwise interesting film. Freddie Highmore is fantastic as a Charlie and Johnny Depp is honestly in his weirdest role yet here as a Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is too long for it's own good and it is in a serious need of trimming when it comes to editing. There is just too much of everything here and the screenplay is too thin for a film as long as this. It has some very good ideas and the concept is good, but the end result is mixed and all over the place.

Good re-make of the movie about children who win golden tickets to visit the chocolate factory. The special effects are great and Johnny puts on an excellent performance. I love the chocolate river.

I'm not very surprised that only 52% of the "people" enjoyed this movie. This movie is good, it was good to me at least. I don't know if you'll like it, but I thought it was a very good and inspiring movie.

Every director (Except Christopher Nolan) is going to make at least one bad movie. This is Tim Burton's. It's a remake of the classic children's film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based off the book by Roald Dahl. Tim Burton likes to put focus on characters considered outcasts to society. The thing is , Willy Wonka isn't an outcast, just a secretive and mysterious man. So I knew Burton would find a way to screw up the character one way or another, and he did by casting Johnny Depp. I don't hate Depp, he's ok, but he's overrated. My first complaint is the potrayal of Willy Wonka. The original with Gene wilder as Wonka, I believe, was better. There's more mystery behind him and his unassuming manner is what makes him likable and funny. Wonka in this version though, is potrayed as if he just escaped from an asylum. Another problem this movie has is the other characters. For one thing, Charlie in this movie is incredibly bland. The way he reads his lines just doesn't have any flow. They could've casted someone better. Another thing with this Charlie is he's always saying a bunch of preachy lines. He's like the second coming of Christ. Seriously, when he was breaking up the chocolate to share with his family, I was waiting for him to say something like, "Eat this in rememberance of me." The other children I feel that their personalities were stretched out too far, but that's something you have to watch the movie for to understand. This version is more faithful to the book so I was impressed with that. Also, the songs sung by the Oompa loompa's were really catchy and not as redundant as the ones in the original. The art direction of this movie was also really neat to look at. It was almost all eye-candy. (Literally.) This version was also darker in tone, I didn't like that, especially when you try to read the book with the same darkness surrounding the environment. My biggest complaint, however, is the added backstory to the estrangement between Wonka and his father. Seriously, that was totally unnecessary.I know Tim Burton is trying to be original, but he hasn't had a unique idea since 1988's "Beetlejuice." It was cool seeing Christopher Lee with a cameo, though. (He played a real vampire, not the sparkly, vegetarian one Stephenie Meyer pulled from her ass.) Making this movie could've gone differently; they could've added a lighter tone, better comedic timing and casted better actors. Instead, we got an ok, average film (I guess it's ok.)

The film deserves praise for being closer and more faithful to the classic children's novel. But it's too dark for it's own good considering the audience its aiming at and it's just plain creepy and this ruins its chance at being something magical.

I've admitted that "Willy wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is one of my top 20 favorite films, so when I heard they were going to remake it, I got a bit skeptic, but I still saw it anyway, and overall, it was okay, its nowhere near classic, and Tim Burton has made much better films than this, but its a decent film overall. The acting is okay, the songs are catchy as hell and very creative, and the plot follows the book a bit closer.

The sweetest part about CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is the acting. Johnny Depp delivers a very, very quirky performance as Willy Wonka--which is good, because this was how Roald Dahl original wrote it in his classic children's novel, so overall, Johnny Depp is without a doubt better than Gene Wilder. Also, Freddie Highmore can act poor (as can Helena Bonham Carter, his character's mother), and he is much less obnoxious than the kid who played him in WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. But as for the rest of the kids, they're all still just as much brats, if not, brattier.

I was surprised at how scary this film was (well, for a family movie, of course). It is (*sigh*) another Burton/Depp collaboration, so it has those moments where they throw things in that are just plain creepy to kids, but to which adults will react with an elongated, "Ohhh...kay?" But I mean this is an eerier Tim Burton family film than even THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, with an overly mysterious feel.

Overall, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY was not bad, not bad at all. It's worth a good try with your family--just make sure you have enough bags of popcorn, but not enough to make you look like that one morbidly obese kid from this movie...er, what's his name again?

Tim Burton always takes risks and he took another one here, to challenge the classic first Willy Wonka film. He tackled it and did a very good job in my opinion, he kept it original but added his own twist and flavor to it.

Willy Wonka: Don't lose your heads. Don't get overexcited. Just keep very calm.

There is a lot of hate for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and really for no reason, except that to quote every adult over the age of 35. "It is nowhere near the original. This should never have been made. Cry me a river. Who cares that Burton remade a classic? We act like if someone remakes a classic, it somehow takes something away from the original. Like Gus Van Sant's Psycho, which isn't a good movie. But people act like Van Sant should be hung for remaking Psycho. Who cares? If you don't like the idea of a remake of Chocolate Factory, go watch the original and shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear you cry about the original being better because in reality it's not. Tim Burton's is better. I like the original too, but Burton did a great job with the remake. He made it creepier, more funny and the art direction is out of this world.

Johnny Depp kills it as Willy Wonka. Freddie Highmore is less annoying then then the kid from the original. The other four kids are done way better here. The backstory is awesome. The factory looks better. The dialogue is better. The direction is better. So the movie is superior to the first. The people who don't think it is remember going and watching it when they were 6 years old and think somehow this is cheating their childhood. Burton made a better movie, so get over it.

This isn't Burton's best movie, but it is really good. I hate to see people criticize this film because it is so good. Judge it as a single movie. Forget about the original while you are watching and you will love it. Thank you Burton and Depp for having the balls to remake a family classic.

Mike Teavee: Who wants a beard? 
Willy Wonka: Well, beatniks for one, folk singers, and motorbike riders. Y'know. All those hip, jazzy, super cool, neat, keen, and groovy cats. It's in the fridge, daddy-o! Are you hip to the jive? Can you dig what I'm layin' down? I knew that you could. Slide me some skin, soul brother! 

10/10 mainly for the fact that Johnny Depp is an excellent Willy Wonka. Much, much better than the original.

Quite frankly, people can hat Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory all they want; I still love it and think it's practically flawless. Not only is this much more of an accurate adaption of the book, but it's just visually amazing. The fact that it's so childlike and eerily bonkers is what makes all the slight jokes and offhand comments by the characters even more funny and effective. Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka is all kinds of crazy and makes for a believable candy inventor with the brain of a ten-year-old boy. What I like is that he's almost nothing like Gene Wilder's interpretation; so there's no sense in comparing the two. Johnny Depp's performance takes everything you'd expect from the character and completely levels it. It's one of the strangest attempts at a human being ever put on screen. I think all of the back story they give for Willy Wonka and his Oompa Loompas is a wise decision; honestly it's pretty hilarious when you know more about the two. I think the child actors in this are next to perfect. They're exaggerations of reality for sure, but at not one point does anyone seem fake or overacted. The music is the final straw in making this a bon-a-fide classic; it channels madness into song and dance. In the end, there's no reason anyone should find Tim Burton's version bad in any way. He's a visionary director that never seems to disappoint in terms of giving a visual landscape that is totally original and something out of a dream.

I like this remake movie, more funny as such as Johnny Depp's character. Director Tim Burton expertly juggles mild scares and laughs, as with the factory workers, the Oompa Loompas. The much-criticised addition of a back-story involving Christopher Lee as Wonka Snr actually works very well. The factory sets are scrumptious. Yes, even for nostalgic adults, this is better than the popular 1971 version with Gene Wilder.
The ending scene is the best.

It was nothing like the original but is still an okay movie with great effects and bad acting, a worthy remake though.

The original, based off the children's book by Roald Dahl, had famous quotations taken from literature, the creepy ambiance of Gene Wilder, and those orange Oompa Loompas. This seemed like a Johnny Depp/Tim Burton coalition to derail a classic that defined my childhood and make a point about their own abilities as a collaborative team.

B

I love this movie, it's entertaining. If you just let it be its own thing, it's wonderful. Tim Burton does an amazing job at putting his twist on a classic. It's creepy, visual, clever. I hate the Oompa Loompas more in this film, but Charlie is better than that pouty mess from the first one. This movie is easy to watch over and over again.

Blasphemous to the original.