Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

[lizzybob]

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i saw charlie and the chocolate factory the night i came back from holiday and thought it was brilliant.

i absolutely love freddie highmore who plays charlie because as you say he has a nice innocence that isn't annoying - unlike the original charlie who bugged the hell out of me! (it was due to the fact that depp loved working with freddie highmore on Finding Neverland that he got the part of charlie) i was a bit weary of johnny depp at the start because lets face it he is supremely wierd in this movie and it took me a while to warm to his portrayal of willy wonka - however i think for the most part i prefer his wonka to wilders.

i have to agree with you about the oompa loompa (deep roy) - he is kinda annoying in the way that they only use him reproduced several times with the use of cg and that the songs were not as good. to me the oompa loompas will always be short orange people with green hair, funny white trousers and silly shoes! You just can't beat them!!!! Also another point about the new oompa loompas is that they are all dressed in pvc latex stuff which is just too wierd for a childs movie - why dress them in pvc?!?!?!

apart from that a brilliant movie - i really enjoyed it. my mum is taking my sister some time this week and i might just tag along again. cant wait til it comes out on dvd as i really wanna see the extras.

 

[Dave]

This is nothing like the original film and it is quite amazing that two films with the same story can be so different. I liked it, though it's difficult to say which one is better.

Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka much more weirdly than Gene Wilder and is probably more faithful to the book for that. He has been compared to Michael Jackson, and with the voice, the white face make-up, and the strange childhood back-story, I can see why people are saying that. Tim Burton says that it wasn't an influence though. I thought he was more 'Edward Sissorhands'. He is quite a versatile actor, you would never believe he was the same person as Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Carribean'.

The back-story for Willy Wonka seemed to fit the film too. Christopher Lee plays his dentist father.

We liked the Umpa-lumpas in the original better, and the songs too, I think, though there are songs in this too, with a score by Danny Elfman.

The squirrels with the nuts are in the book, but they missed out some parts that were in the first film that we liked such as licking the walls.

 

[nixie]

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Ok took my 7 year old nephew to see it last night,my son tagged along as well,wasn't bad but prefer the original,Depp brilliant as usual but the resemblence to Micheal Jackson made my blood run cold.Not keen on the new look Ompa Lumpas.

 

[Leto]

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Can't compare with the original you all refers too as I've never seen it. I can only use the books as references, although I've read them decades ago.

Was a really enjoyable movie, and I may be the only one who didn't see any similitude between this Willy Wonka and Michael Jackson. The Ompas Loompas could have been more interesting, but yes too many CGI made them more annoying than anything else. Stangely I found the film too short.

 

[Alysheba]

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I liked it but wasn't crazy about it. Personally I prefer the first one, though Burton seemed to follow the book more than the one with Gene Wilder. The Oompa-Loompas didn't impress me and I found it annoying they all looked the same. Burton's version had a creepy tone (which his films seem to do anyway) which at times was unsettling. However, I did like the fact that Burton expanded on the other children a bit more than the first one did AND we got to see what happened to them afterward. The moral was emphasized more in this version which was nice. But I liked the first one better.

 

[GOLLUM]

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I've only seen the original, which I didn't mind but most critics here in OZ are saying it's better than the original.

Not surprised J. Depp does a good job, he's great in most roles he plays.

Maybe the Oompa-Loompas look the same because they're all played/replicated with the one actor...

 

[Alysheba]

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Maybe the Oompa-Loompas look the same because they're all played/replicated with the one actor...

Yes, CGI overload. I prefered how they were similar in the first movie but different (played by actors not computer generated actors). Nit picky, I know, but maybe I'm just getting old. LOLOL

 

[GOLLUM]

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NAH...your'e not getting old, wait till you've spent a few centuries beneath the Misty Mountains and then you'll know what old is....

 

[Rosemary]

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I haven't seen the movie but I did happen to see this in our newspaper.
You MIGHT find in interesting

There were 927,403 litres of fake chocolate used for the river and waterfall in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

 

[kaneda]

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Yes, CGI overload. I prefered how they were similar in the first movie but different (played by actors not computer generated actors). Nit picky, I know, but maybe I'm just getting old. LOLOL

P*ssed off everyone I know who has seen it (from 18 years old upwards). You are not alone!

 

[Kerayi]

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yeh i totally agree. The oompa loompas were a total letdown. To me it seemed like the easy, lazy way out to just make cgi copies of that one guy (Deep Roy is it?) But i thought the rest of the film was grrrrrrrrrreat! I loved how the chocolate river actually swirled and moved like chocolate, unlike the original where it just looks like brown, milky water...does anyone else think that?

 

[MoonLover]

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I thought the movie was quite good, but I agree with the Oompa Loopma sentiment. They were funnier, hipper I suppose, but the one thing that annoyed me about them was the fact I couldn't understand half of what they were singing! The songs were just a blur. And I was disappointed a bit by the boat ride - it was one of my childhood nightmares in the original version, but this one was a bit tame - no headless chickens or anything! But Johnny Depp was excellent, in a creepy sort of way.
Karen

 

[sanityassassin]

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feel sorry for deep roy who played the oompa loompas he worked harder than anyone on the film having to do things again and again trying to make the oompa loompas all original there wasn't much cgi with them he just did it again and again

 

[polymorphikos]

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I liked the Oompa Loompas, confound it. They had a nasty edge to them, and the slight inconsistency in size made it hard to find reference points on them.

I also like how much more sinister this Wonka is than I remember Wilder's being. There's a malicious glee throughout this entire film that I really loved.

I did find, however, that all the other characters sort of fade away once Wonka hits the scene, and I ended-up kind of forgetting about them. This was alright, as Wonka is frankly fascinating, but also distracting. It is about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, anyway. At least nominally. In this film Charlie just wanders in and doesn't fiddle with anything, and as a result he wins.

I'm also conflicted about the back-story of Charlie. On the one hand, it adds another dimension to things, but on the other I found the resolution a bit jarring, a little to warm and fuzzy perhaps. Obviously they needed a definite resolution, though, because unlike Dahl they couldn't be sure of cranking-out a sequel - hence no leap into mad-cap adventures.

All in all, a lovely film. One or two quibbles aside it was exactly the kind of movie I like.

 

[rune]

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I finally got to see this at the weekend. I thought Depp's acting was rather wierd at times, very strange. But very amusing too. I was never a big fan of this movie, but this recent version I think is better than the old one.

I want one of those squirrels They were so cute