Sorry, Hollywood once again ruins a classic

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2005)

Hollywood apparently having run out of fresh ideas and in the midst of having to remake any film they can finally took on the child classic Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I know, its "Just like the book" except for the double entendre to spice up the film and make it acceptable to the "Blue state" folks.
Jonny Depp gives off a strange vibe that should warn any parent not to let their small kids alone with him. The Ompa-loompas were mean spirited and crude (based on being a kid when the original came out).
Of course there is always a little political jabs as you can guess that the good kids espouse "Blue state values" and the bad kids obviously live in Red states and their Dad's must have voted for .....
Why can't Hollywood just make a movie that do not have scenes where my kids has to ask me what xxxxxxx means? Or where I shake my head at some out of place anti-war message? I guess its because we could vote with our feet and not spend any money on the crap being produced today, but what else are we going to take the kids to see? Hollywood wins again.
I know, I will be bashed, saying that I grew up with the original and cannot accept the new version. My thought on this is how ironic it will be for the teeners and twenty-something's, when one day in the future, when yet another Wonka remake takes that stage, you will be the nostalgic ones that cannot accept "Progress" 4 out of 10