Not dark enough?

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2006)

I am a HUGE fan of Tim Burton, BUT I have to say this movie was, well not up to the Burton par. Yes, the boat sequence was pretty cool. Yes, his crazy shaped trees were cool as hell. Yes, it had some "dark" moments. But those dark moments seemed few and far between. I do believe that Tim Burton was perfect to remake this movie, but it could of, and should of been much darker. Maybe the outside world that Charlie lives in is a dark world, but the Chocolate factory could of been so creepy and dark, really play off the color of the chocolate and make it all melty inside-an acid trip gone bad! Maybe even have the cold feel that you got when you saw Vincent Price in the lab in Edward Scissorhands?!?!? Who knows. But I did see it in the movies and I wasn't happy. Too much pressure? Too big of a high hope? Maybe we can use this as a mulligan for Tim Burton, like OK, we won't really count this one? idk..just a thought. I like Johnny Depp movies, fear and loathing..come on! But the way he looked and acted in this one, kind of sucked. It would of been something to see his hair all f'd up like in Edward, and not have those STUPID sunglasses on. Overall the movie could of been so much better. The flash back scenes seemed to be the darkest in the whole movie. Maybe that's the way they wanted it...he had a bad childhood. Let's make his adulthood even darker?!?! just a thought.