Tim Burton and Johnny Depp do it again!

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2005)

Edward Scissorhand and Sleepy Hollow are just two of the now 5, including the upcoming "Bride's Corpse," movies that they have made together. And this one is as good as the others. Johnny Depp does an excellent job at playing the odd Willy Wonka, the king of all candy makers. What really makes this version interesting is not only is it not just another re-make, it includes an explanation of why Willy Wonka loves chocolate so much, but seems to shrink at saying the words, "parents." It includes Christopher Lee as Wonka's father, who is a dentist that greatly disapproves of anything concerning candy, which seems to be the underlying inspiration of Wonka's life. Included in the film is Freddie Highmore as Charlie, whom we've seem playing Peter in Johnny Depp's last masterpiece, "Finding Neverland." He plays the poor boy gone lucky well, and his connection with Depp is almost obvious. What makes this movie different also is the fact that all the other kids actually have something wrong with them. In the other version with Gene Wilder, there is almost a little bit of sympathy to the kids who don't really seem to have much of anything wrong with them, especially Violet, who's only fault is chewing gum. In this one, Violet is a constant competitor, along with her mother.