If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Rating: 3/10 (18 January 2006)

Why? Gene Wilder is great, and Tim Burton has a bad history with remakes. So why? I will give it this, it was a stunning visual masterpiece. Mr. Burton never fails to deliver on that end. I also liked Johnny Depp's Wonka about half the time. The other half I wanted to strangle him. He drove me nuts and he also kind of looked like a middle aged lesbian. Or Michael Jackson. Either way....yikes.
My thoughts on the candy room are as follows: In the original I wanted to be there, I salivated just looking at it. This one kind of looks like an alien experiment gone wrong. Not appetizing at all.
Final word: Why not just make a movie about the book's sequel instead of trying to revive something that's already still very much alive. It pains me to know that the next generation will be more familiar with this than with the Gene Wilder classic.