I want my old chocolate back

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2005)

I always describe myself as a chocoholic man. And my favorite quotes in life is "the only thing better than a good friend is a good friend with a chocolate"
So when I heard about the recreation of the movie "Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory" with the name "Charlie and the chocolate factory" I was really excited and could hardly wait till the moment I watch the movie, specially that Johnny Depp is starring in it
but after I watched the movie, I was really frustrated, the movie was just a demonstration of visual effects capabilities nothing more...
I remember watching Gene Wilder "Willy Wonka" in the old movie, I really liked the character, he was so simple in every thing, and you can feel that he is really a chocolate lover. But in this Movie, Johny Depp is great actor, no question about that but the Role itself is what I need to talk about, I found myself helpless but hating Willy Wonka!! a very complex character who is only concerned with his own life disregarding the chocolate manufacturing, his workers and every thing else, for example when Charlies' Grandfather introduced himself to him all what concerned Wonka was "Are you one of those who tried to steal my secrets?!!!".
Wonka was as bad as the winners of the 5 golden tickets, I didn't even feel that he loves chocolate. It was just a matter of His father bans him from all candies, so he just wanted to eat chocolate behind his father's back, that is all. In the old Movie I felt that there was a strong relationship between Wonka and chocolate, something called "Love"
the second point was Charlie Bucket himself, Peter Ostrum, the kid who played Charlie's Role was very far from being a poor kid. He couldn't show why he needed the golden ticket that bad.
Also the Oompa Loompa's, those small characters who really cooperated very good with Wonka to insure the idea of enjoying being bad
But to be fair, I must state that the visual effects were really great specially the chocolate River, the elevator, the Squirrels.
Also the Sound track was cool. it really helped me a lot in watching the movie.
Big Sorry for Tim Burton, couldn't help it but I don't like your Movie.