Absolute Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 2005)

This movie was the poorest movie I have seen in a very long time. I know some people say "it was more like the book than the other film". That may be true. However books are books, and movies are movies. They are too different media and what works well on one does not necessarily work well on the other. I could care less how faithful to the book a movie is. I do not go to see movies for factual correctness. I go to be entertained. This movie was definitely not entertaining. I found myself looking around at the ceiling a great deal. Also, the grossness of people eating massive amounts of candy was overdone. Everyone knows fat people are gross - I don't have to pay $8.50 to understand that. I don't even need the over the top dramatic music either. Johnny Depp just acted like a freak for entire film, but I think its a role he feels most comfortable in. The worst parts of the movie were the Umpalumpa songs. They were embarrassingly bad, and I felt bad for the little Indian man doing them. He must be really hard up for work. This is a horrible flick, and the original is about 85 billion times better.