A REVIEW I STILL STAND BY

This will get me a lot of flack and a loss  of views for saying this, but here goes.  I still stand by a lot of what I said in this review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  I really do believe it is a great movie and a more true adaptation of the book than the original.  All of this being said I do prefer the original movie.  I do give it a few negative jabs but i will say I was caught up in the hype of the time with it.

Saturday, July 16, 2005 

Willey Wonka, WIlley Wonka is it an amazing movie here?

So last night made a trip to Dairy Dream, and then went and picked up my ticket for Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.  To start this review off Tim Burton does it again.  The movie has the dark bleached feeling to it combined with bright and vibrant colors.  The scenes flow very well and there is hardly a dull moment.  Key word hardley.  There are a few, several in which you are wondering when will this pick up.  Though these as I mentioned before are few and far between.  The writing is very well done and stays much closer to the book than the original movie ever did.  There are changes and modernizations to it, but they add a certain charm to it.  In short Ruld Dold would be very proud.  Johnney Depp is the perfect Wonka.  His habbit of picking up bizzare rolls served him very well in this sense.  He portrays the perfect sense of Humor and Darkness that appears in almost all Burton films.  Christopher Lee also has an appearence in the film as Willey Wonka's father.  This adds to the humor as you find out that the chocolate master came from a family of Dentists.  Though not in the book it does add more humor to the film.  And now the Umpa Lumpas.  How could I not right a review on this film without them.  They are the greatest source, next to Depp, of humor.  Very Dark and Very Dry Humor.  They sing in this movie as well as the original, but they more closely resemble the ballads found in the book.  Burton has a winner in this one and from the previews I look foward to seeing his next movie that greatly reminds me of the Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride.  I give Charlie and The Chocolate factory a *** out of ****.  Highly recomend going to see it.