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Tim Burton's film making gets increasingly worse with each feature he pushes on the general movie viewing public. Yeah, I said it, it had to be said. It wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if he never decided to never sit in the directors chair again. The sad thing about all this is I really wanted to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quite badly. I was ready to forgive Burton some of his past transgressions just for a chance to see what the great Johnny Depp could do with the character of Willy Wonka. After viewing this I have come to a couple of conclusions: One, Tim Burton only knows enough about film making magic to squeak by and the man has a lot of deep-rooted psychosis that some Psychiatrist would make a bundle if they could get him in their office.
There is SOME good in this film. The children act their parts as perfect as the ones who came before them in the original, especially the kids playing Violet Beauregard, Veruca Salt and Mike Teevee. The story begins calmly and collected enough with Charlie and his family in one of the most unusual domiciles in this or any other movie. Once the golden tickets are all found and the kids make it to the Chocolate Factory, the story goes steadily downhill. It is apparent from the get go that Wonka doesn't like his "guests" and as the kids start falling by the wayside, the Oompah-Loompah's start singing easily some of the most annoying songs ever made that include the childrens names. Mike Teevee and Charlie question how could these useless midgets know what was going to happen to which particular kid in advance and Wonka replies to each thing that Teevee says with a "I can't understand you when you mumble, little boy," when it is all too apparent that the kids aren't as dumb as he thinks they are it is the other way around. There is an underlying hint of meaness to Wonka's individual dispatch of the children when he turns their desires and immaturity against them. Willy Wonka isn't a very likeable character in this like Gene Wilder was in the original, and there were many times I longed for Mr. Wilders presence in this film.
The CGI in this film was a disgrace for someone like Burton who has enough money to make it something special, but doesn't. Nothing illustrates this better than Violet's "Blueberry Transformation." If that scene doesn't leave you rolling your eyes and shaking your head in disbelief, then nothing will. I haven't wanted a movie to end this bad when I was watching it in sometime. This is bad especially when there's a Depp performance involved. Oh well, Pirates of the Carribean II is sure to be much better; it has to be in order to erase this black mark in J.D.'s stellar career.
I can't recommend this at all. It's good parts all deal with the times that the kids are on screen and this is saying something, since most of the time children in movies are unrealistically portrayed and tend to be a nuisance after a period of time rather than being cute and precious.
Tim Burton deserves the most panning here, lets just hope that these tykes film careers aren't irreparably damaged for their involvment with him and this mostly steaming crap fest.
Rating: 2 stars (A VERY generous rating here) out of a possible 5.
There is SOME good in this film. The children act their parts as perfect as the ones who came before them in the original, especially the kids playing Violet Beauregard, Veruca Salt and Mike Teevee. The story begins calmly and collected enough with Charlie and his family in one of the most unusual domiciles in this or any other movie. Once the golden tickets are all found and the kids make it to the Chocolate Factory, the story goes steadily downhill. It is apparent from the get go that Wonka doesn't like his "guests" and as the kids start falling by the wayside, the Oompah-Loompah's start singing easily some of the most annoying songs ever made that include the childrens names. Mike Teevee and Charlie question how could these useless midgets know what was going to happen to which particular kid in advance and Wonka replies to each thing that Teevee says with a "I can't understand you when you mumble, little boy," when it is all too apparent that the kids aren't as dumb as he thinks they are it is the other way around. There is an underlying hint of meaness to Wonka's individual dispatch of the children when he turns their desires and immaturity against them. Willy Wonka isn't a very likeable character in this like Gene Wilder was in the original, and there were many times I longed for Mr. Wilders presence in this film.
The CGI in this film was a disgrace for someone like Burton who has enough money to make it something special, but doesn't. Nothing illustrates this better than Violet's "Blueberry Transformation." If that scene doesn't leave you rolling your eyes and shaking your head in disbelief, then nothing will. I haven't wanted a movie to end this bad when I was watching it in sometime. This is bad especially when there's a Depp performance involved. Oh well, Pirates of the Carribean II is sure to be much better; it has to be in order to erase this black mark in J.D.'s stellar career.
I can't recommend this at all. It's good parts all deal with the times that the kids are on screen and this is saying something, since most of the time children in movies are unrealistically portrayed and tend to be a nuisance after a period of time rather than being cute and precious.
Tim Burton deserves the most panning here, lets just hope that these tykes film careers aren't irreparably damaged for their involvment with him and this mostly steaming crap fest.
Rating: 2 stars (A VERY generous rating here) out of a possible 5.
) Couple that with all the weird subject matter of his films that involve kids and his connections with two actors recently busted with cache's of kiddie-porn in their possession makes one wonder since Burton himself is hardly a picture of perfect mental health and is hooked up with another bizarre individual like Helena Bonham-Carter. 
