Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Pros: Wonderful visuals; Depp, Highmore and Pyle
Cons: Unnecessary subplot

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - you know, the one with Gene Wilder - used to play once a year on TV when I was a kid. Only once, and I relished every delicious moment. Oh, the lickable wallpaper, the chocolate river, the delectable ...

Pros: Johnny Depp. Entertaining movie with great cast.
Cons: Nothing for me.

I have seen many movies that Johnny Depp has been in and I’ve liked him in all of them. After loving P irates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, I realized just how many movies he’s been in ...

Pros: Roald Dahl wrote a good book
Cons: This screen treatment leaves much to be desired

Willy Wonka has decided to give five youngsters a special treat. The reclusive candy maker has decided to give these children a tour of his chocolate factory. In addition, Willy (Johnny Depp) will give one of these five a special prize. All that these ...

Pros: Wonderful visuals, powerful acting, funny, more depth & motivation for Charlie and Wonka...
Cons: Devotees of the "original" will complain. Non-stop.

Even though I'm in my thirties, I'm not one of the millions of my age cohorts who grew up with "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." In fact, I had read the book and was in my twenties before I ever even saw the movie--which I saw in a "meeting" at ...

Pros: Depp is pretty good, story was colorful, squirrels
Cons: not as good as original, too flashy Oompa-Loompa's, just plain odd

One of the classic children's movies has been remade in order to make it new and updated for the kids of the 21st century. Or was that for the adults of the 21st century, who enjoyed the first Charlie and The Chocolate Factory when it came out the first ...

Pros: Neat-o ending, nice special FX
Cons: Huge fans of the 1971 version may be put off.

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971) is one of those movies I must have watched over a hundred times as a kid. Even just writing about it, I can hear the music in my head as Charlie goes to open that last candy bar... The prospect of a ...

Pros: few
Cons: many

Spoilers Ahoy That director Tim Burton’s adaptation of delightful misanthrope Roald Dahl’s Charlie & The Choclate Factory is marginally more faithful to its source material than was Mel Stuart’s 1971 version, Willy Wonka & ...

Pros: Music, Visuals, Cast, Directing
Cons: Secondary plot should have been left out.

Children’s movies are not often the type I recommend. Many of them, even if they manage to pull together a semi- believable plot and a good cast of Hollywood actors and actresses, are often childish, silly, and devoid of anything meaningful or ...

Pros: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together again
Cons: May be too long for younger kids

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the latest offering from Tim Burton and frequent collaborator Johnny Depp. This film is based on the novel by Roald Dahl and should not be regarded as a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. ...

Pros: lush, quirky, hilarious, with something to say from our generation
Cons: some repetitive plot points

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has the dirty job of remaking a classic. Its makers would prefer to call it another adaptation of the classic children's book, but that's a hard sell. Everybody has heard of the film that was helmed by Gene Wilder - ...

Pros: imaginative visuals, Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, re-imagining of Wonka's character
Cons: liked the original Salts better

This is the summer of the remake, it seems. How many must we suffer through? The Dukes of Hazzard, Bewitched, Bad News Bears… luckily, there is at least one rehashing that is worth the audience’s time and attention. Conveniently ...

Pros: Wonderful visuals and great puns throughout.
Cons: Depp's over the top performance. The Wonka backstory.

I'm not normally a Tim Burton fan. Just the previews of his movies usually look weird enough to me that I pass right on by. But, since this was a new version of one of my favorite books from childhood, I had to give it a chance. To be honest, I've ...

Pros: Visually impressive, great child actors, oompa loompa scenes, funny
Cons: Depp's character didn't quite do it for me

After much anticipation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came out this weekend in the UK. The book by Raold Dahl was one of my very favorites as a child and I read it many times. I loved the first film vision of the story but don’t ...

Pros: Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
Cons: The ending.

It wasn't that long ago that Hollywood announced it would be re-making The Manchurian Candidate. Of course, many longtime movie fans screamed heresy at the mere thought of it. Yet when the final result was delivered, the final verdict came out to be ...

Pros: Johhny Depp, the Willy Wonka song, and the Oommpa Loompas.
Cons: I wish there had been more songs.

When first I heard that Tim Burton would be filming a new version of Roald Dohl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", I had visions of satanic oompa-loompas and decapitated children flashing through my horrified mind. What good could come of a ...